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NORTH DAKOTA INDIAN

COMMUNITIZATION AGREEMENT

Contract No.

THIS AGREEMENT, entered into as of the date shown in Section 10 hereof by and between

the parties subscribing, ratifying, or consenting hereto, such Parties being hereinafter referred to as

"parties hereto."

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, the Act of March 3, 1909, (35 Stat. 783), as amended by the Act of August 9,

1955, (69 Stat. 540) and the Act of May 11, 1938, (52 Stat. 347 as amended, 25 USC 396a-g), Indian

Mineral Development Act of 1982, (25 USC 2101-2108), require that all operations under oil and gas

leases on tribal and/or allotted Indian lands shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the Secretary

of the Interior, and the regulations issued pursuant to said statutes provide that in exercise of his

judgment, the Secretary of the Interior may take into consideration among other things, the Federal

laws, State laws, regulations by competent Federal or State authorities, or lawful agreements among

operators regulating either drilling or production or both (25 CFR Secs. 211.28, 212.28); and

WHEREAS, it is deemed necessary in the interest of conservation of natural resources and

in the interest of tribal and/or allotted lessors to communitize or pool lands covered by an Indian oil

and gas lease, or any portion thereof, with other lands, whether or not included in another Indian

lease, when separate tracts under such Indian lease cannot be independently developed and operated

in conformity with an established well-spacing program or pattern for the field or area; and

WHEREAS, the parties hereto own working, royalty or other leasehold interests, or

operating rights under the oil and gas leases and lands subject to this Agreement which cannot be

independently developed and operated in conformity with the well-spacing program established for

the field or area in which said lands are located; and

WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to communitize and pool their respective mineral

interests in lands subject to this Agreement for the purpose of developing and producing

communitized substances in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement:

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual advantages to the

parties hereto, it is mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows:

1. The lands covered by this agreement (hereinafter referred to as "communitized area")

are described as follows:

N.,R

W., 5

P.M.

......

Containing

acres, and this agreement shall include the

Pool, underlying said lands and the

Field -

crude oil and associated natural gas, hereinafter, referred to as "communitized

substances,” producible from such formation (s).

ND INDIAN CA

revised 10/6/2014

North Dakota Indian Communitization Agreement