Sidetracking. Any party having the right to participate in a proposed Sidetracking operation that does not own an interest in the affected wellbore at the time of the notice shall, upon electing to participate, tender to the wellbore owners its proportionate share (equal to its interest in the Sidetracking operation) of the value of that portion of the existing wellbore to be utilized as follows:
Sidetracking. An operation to directionally control or intentionally deviate a well to change the bottomhole location to another bottomhole location not deeper than the stratigraphic equivalent of the Objective Depth of an operation previously conducted in the well, unless the intentional deviation is done to straighten the hole, drill around junk, or overcome other mechanical difficulties. To “Sidetrack” means to conduct a Sidetracking.
Sidetracking. A drilling operation which is accomplished by an intentional deviation of the well bore to an objective other than that objective to which said well bore would have penetrated absent such deviation.
Sidetracking. Except as hereinafter provided, those provisions of this agreement applicable to a “deepening” operation shall also be applicable to any proposal to directionally control and intentionally deviate a well from vertical so as to change the bottom hole location (herein call “sidetracking”), unless done to straighten the hole or to drill around junk in the hole or because of other mechanical difficulties. Any party having the right to participate in a proposed sidetracking operation that does not own an interest in the affected well bore at the time of the notice shall, upon electing to participate, tender to the well bore owners its proportionate share (equal to its interest in the sidetracking operation) of the value of that portion of the existing well bore to be utilized as follows:
Sidetracking. Except as later provided in this Agreement, the provisions of this Agreement applicable to a “deepening” operation shall also be applicable to any proposal to directionally control and intentionally deviate the well from vertical so as to change the bottom hole location (called “sidetracking”), unless done to straighten the hole or to drill around junk in the hole or because of other mechanical difficulties. Any party having the right to participate in a proposed sidetracking operation that does not own an interest in the well at the time of the notice shall, on electing to participate, tender to the well owners its proportionate share (equal to its interest in the sidetracking operation) of the value of that portion of the well to be utilized as follows:
Sidetracking. Directionally drilling by intentionally deviating a well bore to a target bottomhole location other than that target bottomhole location to which such well bore would have penetrated absent such deviation. Operations undertaken to straighten the hole or to drill around junk in the hole resulting from other mechanical difficulties shall not be considered as a sidetrack or sidetracking.
