060-22 Wyo. Code R. § 22-10 - Partial Assignments
(a) Subject to the
requirements of this chapter, a lessee may assign or transfer all or part of
his interest in the released acreage as to either a divided or undivided
interest therein, including cost-free interest such as overriding royalties and
production payments.
(b) The
Director shall approve assignments or reservations of an overriding royalty
subject to the condition that the overriding royalty or a portion thereof may
be cancelled or suspended by the Board if it finds that it creates a burden
upon the lease which prevents or unreasonably interferes with
development.
(c) Assignment of a
divided interest, i.e., an assignment of the full leasehold or working interest
in a lease as to all interest in all deposits, formations, or depths below a
separate tract of the lands subject to the lease or as to one or more separate
deposits, formations, or depths below all or a part of the land subject to the
lease, segregates the assigned interest from the retained interest and creates
new lease obligations as to the lands and the deposits, formations, or depths
assigned.
(i) The rights and obligations of
the lessees under the retained portion and the assigned portion of the original
lease are separate and distinct as though two (2) separate leases, one (1)
covering only the retained interest and the other the assigned interest, had
originally been issued on the effective date of the original lease.
(ii) The Director may disapprove any
assignment which has the effect of creating separate lease obligations covering
the retained and the assigned interest even though it purports to assign less
than all of the leasehold or working interest, unless both assignor and
assignee agree to accept the separate obligations.
(d) Upon assignment as to only a part of the
lease acreage, including assignment as to separate deposits, formations, or
depths, the Office may issue a reissue lease with a new serial number covering
the assigned lands for the unexpired primary term. In lieu of issuing a reissue
lease, the Office may note the assignment upon its records with all lands
covered by the original lease maintained under the original serial number, and
with each separate tract or interest resulting from an assignment designated by
a letter suffix to the original serial number. Each assignee holding a lease on
a separate tract or interest may be required to furnish a bond under Section
12 of this chapter.
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