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KEMMERER, WYOMING
BOOK 453 PAGE 207 SURFACE OWNER'S AGREEMENT
RECITALS:
AGREEMENT:
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 11th day of August, 2000, by and between
WESTERN WYOMING RANGE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND the ESTATE OF
J. R. BROADBENT (hereinafter for convenience called the "Landowner and UNION PACIFIC
LAND RESOURCES CORPORATION (hereinafter for convenience called "UPLRC");
WITNESSETH:
Landowner is the owner of the following- described premises, hereinafter referred to as
"described premises
Township 19 NORTH, Range 113 WEST
Section 27: NW /4NE /4, S /2NE /4
LINCOLN County, WYOMING
SUBJECT, however, to exceptions and reservations of minerals and rights of entry and of surface use
contained in a certain deed or deeds of conveyance, as follows: Quit Claim Deed No. 51886 -1 -56 dated
April 1, 1971 from the Union Pacific Railroad Company to Union Pacific Land Resources Corporation,
recorded April 19, 1971 in Book 93 at Page 648 in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of
Lincoln County, Wyoming. UPLRC is successor in interest to all the right, title and interest of Union
Pacific Railroad Company in and to the oil, gas and associated liquid hydrocarbons in said premises for
a term or period equal to or exceeding the term of this Surface Owner's Agreement.
UPLRC proposes for UPLRC or its agents, lessees, licensees, successors or assigns to prospect
upon and explore the described premises for the development and production of oil, gas and associated
liquid hydrocarbon substances either on UPLRC's behalf or under or pursuant to an oil and gas lease
or license, or under or pursuant to a "unitization agreement meaning here and wherever that term is
used herein any operating agreement, or any other agreement covering the exploration or development
for or the production of oil, gas or associated liquid hydrocarbons, or any pooling, communitization,
unit or other agreement whereby the described premises may be included with other lands in proximity
thereto as a unit area under a plan of unit or joint exploration, development and operation.
Besides confirming the surface uses expressly set forth below, this agreement is intended to avoid
and resolve any and all disputes of whatever nature in connection with the ownership of oil, gas and
associated liquid hydrocarbon substances in the described premises, including rights to extract, remove
or market such minerals, and including any such dispute that may arise hereafter, whether or not the
basis for such dispute is now known or has been identified in disputes involving exceptions and
reservations of minerals in other deeds from Union Pacific Railroad Company or its predecessors.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is agreed as follows:
Section 1. In consideration of the mutual benefits and other good and valuable consideration,
Landowner hereby confirms, extends and grants to UPLRC, its agents, lessees, licensees, successors and
assigns, including any operator or unit operator from time to time in charge of operations under a
unitization agreement, and their respective successors and assigns, the easements and rights to enter upon
the described premises and any lands adjacent or contiguous thereto owned or claimed by the Landowner
and to extract, remove, store, transport, and market for its or their account oil, gas and associated liquid
hydrocarbon substances in or from said described premises, and to drill, construct, maintain and use
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Section 6. Subject to the provisions of Section 8 hereof, it is agreed that the covenants to pay
the sums provided in Sections 2 and 4 hereof shall be covenants running with the surface ownership of
the described premises and shall not be held or transferred separately therefrom, and any sums payable
under this agreement shall be paid to the person or persons owning the surface of the described premises
as of the date the oil or gas or associated liquid hydrocarbon production is marketed. UPLRC shall not,
however, become obligated to make such payments to any subsequent purchaser of the described
premises and shall continue to make such payments to the Landowner until the first day of the month
following the receipt by UPLRC of notice of change of ownership, consisting of the original or certified
copies of the instrument or instruments constituting a complete chain of title from the Landowner to the
party claiming such ownership, and then only as to payments thereafter made.
Section 7. The easements, rights, and uses herein shall be binding upon the described
premises and each and every part thereof, and the present and future owners thereof, and shall continue
for the benefit of UPLRC and its successors and assigns, as owners of the oil and /or gas and /or
associated liquid hydrocarbon rights in the described premises and each and every part thereof, and their
agents, lessees, licensees, successors, and assigns, including any operator or unit operator, and for the
benefit of other lands within any unit area within which the described premises, or any portion thereof
may be included, and each and every part thereof.
Section 8. This agreement shall be in full force and effect from and after execution and
delivery and shall continue in full force and effect for a period of one (1) year and so long thereafter as
the oil and gas rights in the described premises are committed to an oil and gas lease or license or to a
unitization agreement, or so long as a well capable of producing oil or gas or associated liquid
hydrocarbons is located upon the described premises, or drilling or reworking operations are being
conducted thereon, and, upon termination of such lease, license, or unitization agreement, or upon
abandonment of such well, or upon cessation of such drilling or reworking operations, whichever last
occurs, this agreement shall terminate; provided, however, that such termination shall neither affect nor
terminate the rights, expressed or implied, in the deed or deeds referred to in the Recitals hereof.
Section 9. Subject to the provisions of Sections 6 and 8 hereof, this agreement shall inure to
the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective heirs, executors, administrators,
successors, and assigns.
Section 10. This Agreement may be executed as one document signed by all parties or the
parties named herein may join herein by execution of a counterpart with the same effect as if all parties
executed this Agreement. The failure of any one or more of the parties named herein to execute this
Agreement shall not in any manner affect the validity of same as to the parties who do execute this
Agreement.
Section 11. Any and all existing Surface Owner Agreements between Union Pacific Land
Resources Corporation or its predecessor in interest and the Landowner or its predecessor in interest
which affect the described premises are hereby terminated and are no longer of any force or effect.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this agreement this day of
j 'r'C'‘,- 2000, to be effective as of the day and year first above written.
UNION PACIFIC LAND RESOURCES CORPORATION
By: /4_
JAMES,. NEW
Attorn -in -Fact
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The foregoing ins rument was acknowledged before me this A 9 day of 2000,
by 1:t4i,44 as
f THE ESTATE
OF J. R. BROADBENT.
My Commission Expires: 3 D 3
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Notary Public
HAIM !ET CHRISTENSEN r;
170 East 400 South, Suite 304 f
"..clt Lake Oily, Utah 84111
commission Expire: E
latch 24, 2003
311-11.0 of Utah
STATE OF TEXAS
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COUNTY OF TARRANT
The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this N day
by JAMES JAMES L. NEWCOMB, as Attorney in Fact of UNION PACIFIC LAND RESOURCES
CORPORATION, a Nebraska corporation, on behalf of the corporation.
CATt-IV J. GREEN
Notary Public
STATE OF TEXAS
M! COMM. Exp. Jai. 20, 2002
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