No Ownership Interest Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to vest in Parent any direct or indirect ownership or incidence of ownership of or with respect to the Covered Shares. All rights, ownership and economic benefits of and relating to the Covered Shares shall remain vested in and belong to the Stockholder, and Parent shall have no authority to direct the Stockholder in the voting or disposition of any of the Covered Shares, except as otherwise provided herein.
Legitimate Business Interests The Executive recognizes that the Company has legitimate business interests to protect and as a consequence, the Executive agrees to the restrictions contained in this Agreement because they further the Company’s legitimate business interests. These legitimate business interests include, but are not limited to (i) trade secrets; (ii) valuable confidential business, technical, and/or professional information that otherwise may not qualify as trade secrets, including, but not limited to, all Confidential Information; (iii) substantial, significant, or key relationships with specific prospective or existing Customers, vendors or suppliers; (iv) Customer goodwill associated with the Company’s business; and (v) specialized training relating to the Company’s technology, Services, methods, operations and procedures. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 9(b) shall be construed to impose restrictions greater than those imposed by other provisions of this Agreement.
Ownership Interests The ownership interest of each member of the Company will be expressed in terms of a percentage that is set out in Exhibit A, attached and made part of this Agreement. The total ownership interests of all members will always equal one-hundred percent (100%). The existing members will determine the ownership interest of any new members prior to admission to the Company.
Interests All of the following shall be referred to in this Agreement collectively as the "Interests" and individually as an "Interest": (a) The oil, gas and mineral leases in the states and counties described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto (collectively, the "Leases"), including, without limitation, working interests, overriding royalty interests, royalty interests and any other interests of a similar nature affecting the lands covered by the Leases (collectively, the "Lands"). (b) The oil and gas ▇▇▇▇▇ described on Exhibit "A" (individually, a "Well," and collectively, the "▇▇▇▇▇"), together with all oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gas liquids, condensate and other minerals produced from such ▇▇▇▇▇. (c) All unitization, communitization, pooling, agreements, working interest units created by operating agreements, partnership agreements and orders covering the Leases and Lands, or any portion thereof, and the units and pooled or communitized areas created thereby (collectively, the "Units"). (d) The tangible personal property, tools, machinery, materials, pipelines, plants, gathering systems, equipment, platforms and facilities, fixtures and improvements, which are directly incident or attributable to or underlie the Leases, Lands, ▇▇▇▇▇ or Units with the production, transportation, treatment, sale or disposal of hydrocarbons or water produced therefrom or attributable thereto, (collectively, the "Equipment"). (e) The general and limited partnership interests in Castle Texas Exploration Limited Partnership ("CTELP") and Castle Texas Oil and Gas Limited Partnership ("CTOGLP") (collectively the "Limited Partnerships") described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto, including, without limitation, all Leases, Lands, ▇▇▇▇▇ (together with all oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gas liquids, condensate and other minerals produced from such ▇▇▇▇▇), Units, and/or Equipment owned by the Limited Partnerships. (f) The licenses, permits, contracts, agreements and other instruments owned by Sellers (other than bonds posted by Sellers) which concern and relate to any of the Leases, Lands, ▇▇▇▇▇, Units and/or Equipment, INSOFAR AND ONLY INSOFAR as same concern or relate to the Leases, Lands, ▇▇▇▇▇, Units and/or Equipment, or the operation thereof; including, without limitation, oil, gas and condensate purchase and sale contracts; permits; rights-of-way; easements; licenses; servitudes; estates; surface leases; farmin and farmout agreements; division orders and transfer orders; bottomhole agreements; dry hole agreements; area-of-mutual interest agreements; salt water disposal agreements; acreage contribution agreements; operating agreements; balancing agreements and unit agreements; pooling agreements; pooling orders; communitization agreements; processing, gathering, compression and transportation agreements; facilities or equipment leases relating thereto or used or held for use in connection with the ownership or operation thereof or with the production, treatment, sale or disposal of hydrocarbons; and all other contracts and agreements related to the Leases, Lands, ▇▇▇▇▇ and/or Equipment. (g) Subject to Section 1.3 below, originals or copies of all computer tapes and discs, files, records, information or data relating to the Interests in the possession of Sellers, including, without limitation, title records (including abstracts of title, title opinions, certificate of title and title curative documents), production records and files, contracts, correspondence, production records, electric logs, core data, pressure data, decline curves, graphical production curves, drilling reports, well completion reports, drill stem test charts and reports, regulatory reports, and all related materials, INSOFAR AND ONLY INSOFAR as the foregoing items constitute materials that may be lawfully conveyed to Buyers (i.e., the materials are not subject to a proprietary agreement precluding their transfer to Buyers), and, to the extent transferable, all other contract rights, intangible rights (excluding Sellers' trademarks and service marks), inchoate rights, choses in action, rights under warranties made by prior owners, manufacturers, vendors or other third parties, and rights accruing under applicable statutes of limitation or prescription, attributable to the Interests. (h) All payments, and all rights to receive payments, with respect to the ownership of the production of hydrocarbons from or the conduct of operations on the Interests accruing after the Effective Time.
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