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• OIL AND GAS LEASE
  
  A grant of the sole and exclusive right to extract oil and/or gas from beneath the surface of land. Such a lease is generally for a designated term of years and is subject to a payment of royalties in the event of production, the commencement of drilling operations on or before a specified date and the performance within a specified time of a certain amount of development work. Typically, an express or implied easement is granted to enter the property in order to drill.
  
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