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Oil & Gas Leasing

Keep Your Minerals. Earn Income. On Your Terms.

Not ready to sell outright? Sagebrush MG offers transparent, owner-friendly oil and gas leases that protect your interests and provide competitive bonus payments and royalty income.

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Why Lease with Sagebrush MG

Your Minerals, Your Terms, Our Expertise

Not every mineral owner wants to sell. For many families, mineral rights represent a generational connection to the land and a source of ongoing passive income. We respect that.

Sagebrush MG offers oil and gas leasing as a genuine alternative to outright acquisition. We negotiate lease terms that are designed to protect the mineral owner — not just the lessee. Our leases include modern, owner-friendly provisions that many operators and land companies refuse to offer.

Whether your minerals are currently unleased, your existing lease is expiring, or you are trapped in an unfavorable legacy agreement, we can evaluate your situation and present options.

Competitive Bonus PaymentsFair Royalty RatesPlain-Language Lease Terms
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Owner-Friendly Lease Terms

Every Clause Designed to Protect Your Interests

We believe a lease should be fair to both parties. Here is what we negotiate and why it matters.

Fair Depth Clauses

We negotiate depth limitations that prevent your deep formation rights from being held indefinitely without drilling activity. If we are not actively developing a formation, those rights revert to you.

Depth severance at deepest producing formation + 100 feet
Surface to center of earth, no depth limitation

Transparent Royalty Calculations

Your royalty is calculated on wellhead production volumes at market price, not on post-deduction values after the operator subtracts gathering, processing, and transportation costs.

Royalty on gross proceeds at the wellhead, no post-production deductions
Royalty on net proceeds after all downstream costs deducted

Realistic Shut-In Terms

If a well is temporarily shut in, you deserve fair compensation — not a nominal $1 per acre annual payment that effectively holds your acreage hostage for pennies.

$50+ per net mineral acre annual shut-in payment with 12-month limitation
$1/acre shut-in royalty, unlimited duration

Reasonable Primary Terms

We negotiate primary lease terms that reflect actual development timelines, not indefinite option periods that lock your minerals away without activity.

3-year primary term with clear development commitments
10-year primary term, no development obligations

Pugh Clause Protection

A Pugh clause ensures that only acreage within a producing spacing unit is held by production. Undrilled tracts revert to you when the primary term expires — not held indefinitely by distant wells.

Both horizontal and vertical Pugh clauses releasing non-producing tracts
No Pugh clause — one well holds entire lease indefinitely

Surface Damage Provisions

If you also own the surface estate, we include provisions that protect your land — requiring advance notice, road maintenance, reclamation bonds, and restoration of disturbed areas.

Written surface use agreement with reclamation requirements
No surface damage protections beyond statutory minimums

Lease vs. Sell

Understanding Your Options

Both pathways have merit. The right choice depends on your financial situation, estate plans, and risk tolerance.

FactorLeaseSell
Ongoing IncomeYes — bonus + monthly royaltiesNo — one-time lump sum
Ownership RetainedYes — you keep the mineral estateNo — mineral estate is conveyed
Risk ExposureModerate — tied to production & pricesNone — risk fully transferred
Estate SimplicityLower — ongoing management requiredHigher — clean conveyance
Capital AvailabilityBonus payment + future royaltiesFull value received immediately
Control Over TermsHigh — negotiate specific clausesLimited — price is primary variable

Explore Your Leasing Options

Let Us Evaluate Your Mineral Interest for Leasing

Whether your minerals are currently unleased, your existing lease is approaching expiration, or you are dealing with a legacy HBP situation, we can help you understand your options and negotiate fair terms.

No commitment to lease — evaluation is complimentary

We explain every clause in plain language

Bonus payments and royalty rates disclosed upfront

If leasing is not your best option, we will tell you honestly

Request a Free Valuation

No obligation. No pressure. Just a transparent, engineer-backed assessment.

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