ROYALTY OWNER FORMS PROGRAM (NKF05)

History of the Royalty Owner Forms Program

Royalty Owners began purchasing the Kanes Manual of Oil and Gas Forms in 1989, for use in preparing documents dealing with their interests.  Those using Kanes Forms requested additional types of forms, and let us know that they did not need all the forms contained in the Kanes Manual, and its successor, the Kanes Oil and Gas Forms Program.

Mike Atnipp, Managing Partner of Kanes Forms, began compiling a list of forms specifically requested by mineral and royalty owners to develop a collection of forms for Royalty Owners.

2001:    Kanes Forms created websites to solicit additional suggestions from mineral and royalty owners as to the types of oil and gas forms they would like to have available.  Kanes Forms participated in the 2001 and 2003 National Association of Royalty Owners (NARO) Conventions.  Visiting with NARO members, additional suggestions were obtained.

2003:    The Royalty Owner Forms Program was completed.  The Royalty Owner Forms Program has over 121 different forms that deal with transactions in which mineral, royalty, and landowners are involved.  The Royalty Owner Forms Program has many of the basic forms that have been developed over the years by Kanes Forms, plus new forms developed specifically for mineral and royalty owners.  Some of the forms in the Royalty Owner forms Program are:

Lease Riders and Addendums

Some mineral owners only want to modify leases submitted to them, or develop a basic set of addendums to add to all leases they sign.  The Royalty Owner Forms Program has over 300 different provisions that may be added to a lease, providing for continuous development (Pugh and Freestone Riders), surface damages and restoration, limitations on pooling, horizontal severances, and many more.

Lessor Oil and Gas Lease Form and Geophysical Option Agreements

The Royalty Owner Forms Program provides lease forms that are intended for use by a mineral owner that has significant bargaining position.  These forms are not just a collection of provisions found in different leases and agreements.  They are well organized with all their terms consistent with one another.

Deeds

The Royalty Owner Forms Program includes a variety of deed forms:  to trusts, out of trust, gift, royalty, mineral, etc.
 
INDEX AND SAMPLE FORMS IN THE ROYALTY OWNER FORMS PROGRAM

All samples are Adobe Acrobat™ formatted (PDF documents) and can be viewed with the free version of Adobe AcroReader™ most users already have a copy of on their computer.


About the Index of and Samples of forms in the Royalty Owner Forms Program

1.    The forms are listed in the same order as they appear in the Program; divided into topical sections.

2.    There are no sample forms of Acknowledgments, but forms of Acknowledgments for all producing states are included in the Royalty Owner Forms Program.

3.    To view a Sample, double click on the title of the form.