What Is a Dedication?

Abstract

What is a "Dedication" in the specialization of Midstream Oil & Gas Procedure?; What is a "Covenant Running with the Land?"; What is required to create a covenant running with the land?; Are the Rights granted under an Oil and Gas Lease sufficient to allow a producer to create a Covenant Running with the Land, in favour of a Midstream Company?; Can a Dedication be structured as a covenant running with the land? If so, how? The modern concepts in the Oil & Gas Midstream Procedure needs the above questions answered satisfactorily. This work attempts to answer these questions, using the legal positions on Dedication, on Covenants that Run with the Land. This work uses the legal positions in Oklahoma and Texas jurisdictions as examples. Other persuasive jurisdictions have also been used here in comparison.

Keywords: What is a Dedication, Dedication, Covenants that run with the land, Covenants running with the land in Midstream Oil and Gas Procedure, Midstream Oil & Gas Procedure