Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Production Sharing Agreements

Originally published by John McFarland.

A client recently asked me whether he should sign a production sharing agreement. I replied that this is not an easy question to answer.

First, the nomenclature.  These terms are not defined anywhere and their usage is not always consistent, but here’s what I mean when I use these terms:

Allocation Well. A horizontal well drilled across two or more lease lines without creating a pooled unit including the leases. Because no provision of the leases dictates how production will be shared among the leases, production must be “allocated” among the leases.

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