Pray v. Premier Petroleum, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the condition that an oil or gas lease must produce in paying quantities necessary to perpetuate the lease is implicit in a typical habendum clause
• explaining that under Kansas law, “[pipeline costs fall in the same category as costs of drilling and equipping a well” and “should not be taken into account” when determining whether a well will produce in paying quantities
• detailing burdens on the lessee in establishing applicability of shut-in provisions
• “[Ajlthough the shut-in royalty clause does not normally specify that the shut-in well must be capable of producing in paying quantities, such a requirement is implied.”
• “Although the phrase ‘in paying quantities’ does not specifically appear in oil and gas leases, it is implicitly a part of the habendum clause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).