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30 CFR 256.72: Compensatory payments as production.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 30—Mineral Resources
- CHAPTER II—BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
- SUBCHAPTER B—OFFSHORE
- PART 256—LEASING OF SULPHUR OR OIL AND GAS IN THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF
- Subpart B—Assignments, Transfers, and Extensions
If an oil and gas lessee makes compensatory payments and if the lease is not being maintained in force by other production of oil or gas in paying quantities or by other approved drilling or reworking operations, such payments shall be considered as the equivalent of production in paying quantities for all purposes of the lease.
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