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10 free, exam-style Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free CPL practice test to study every exam domain.

Question 1

A working interest owner holds a 50% working interest in a well that is burdened by a 1/8 lessor royalty and a 1/16 overriding royalty. What is the owner's net revenue interest (NRI)?

  1. 43.75%
  2. 40.625%
  3. 31.25%
  4. 50%
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Correct answer: B - 40.625%

Question 2

A landowner owns one-half (1/2) of the minerals in a 100-acre tract. The tract is pooled into a 640-acre unit, and the lease provides for a 3/16 royalty. What is the landowner's decimal interest in production from the unit?

  1. 0.18750000
  2. 0.02929688
  3. 0.01464844
  4. 0.07812500
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Correct answer: C - 0.01464844

Question 3

During the primary term of a classic "unless" oil and gas lease, the lessee neither commences a well nor pays the delay rental on or before the due date. What is the effect on the lease?

  1. The lease terminates automatically by its own terms, with no notice
  2. The lessee owes the lessor damages for breach, but the lease nonetheless continues in force
  3. The lessor must give the lessee 30 days' written notice before the lease can end
  4. The lease automatically converts to a paid-up lease
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Correct answer: A - The lease terminates automatically by its own terms, with no notice

Question 4

A lease covering 640 acres contains a horizontal Pugh clause. At the end of the primary term, only an 80-acre pooled unit around a single producing well is held by production. Absent any other savings provision, what does the Pugh clause cause to happen to the remaining 560 acres?

  1. The remaining acreage is held by the production from the unit well
  2. The entire lease, including the producing unit, terminates
  3. The remaining acreage is automatically pooled into the existing unit
  4. The acreage outside the producing/pooled unit is released
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Correct answer: D - The acreage outside the producing/pooled unit is released

Question 5

A grantor owns an undivided one-half (1/2) mineral interest in a tract; the other one-half is already outstanding in a third party. By general warranty deed, the grantor conveys the tract to a buyer and reserves a one-half (1/2) mineral interest to himself. Applying the Duhig rule, what mineral interest does the grantor actually retain?

  1. A full 1/2, because the deed expressly and unambiguously reserves that interest to him
  2. 1/4, with the shortfall split evenly between the grantor and the buyer
  3. None - his reservation fails and the buyer is protected and made whole first
  4. 1/2, but only once the outstanding third-party interest later expires
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Correct answer: C - None - his reservation fails and the buyer is protected and made whole first

Question 6

While acquiring leases on behalf of his employer, a landman is privately offered an overriding royalty interest by a third party as a reward for directing business their way. He accepts it without telling his employer. Under the AAPL Standards of Practice, this conduct is:

  1. Permissible, since an overriding royalty is a property interest rather than a cash commission
  2. Improper - it is an undisclosed profit on a transaction made for his employer without consent
  3. Permissible, because the override was offered and paid by an unrelated third party, not the employer
  4. Improper only where the value of the override exceeds a commercially reasonable amount
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Correct answer: B - Improper - it is an undisclosed profit on a transaction made for his employer without consent

Question 7

Under a standard AAPL Model Form 610 Joint Operating Agreement, a non-operator elects not to participate in a proposed well that the operator and other parties then drill. The well is a producer. With respect to that well, the non-consenting party generally:

  1. Permanently forfeits its entire working interest across the whole contract area, not merely in this one well
  2. Shares immediately in the well's production in proportion to its working interest, as if it had consented
  3. May still participate later simply by paying its original proportionate share of the well's costs
  4. Relinquishes its share of production until the consenting parties recover costs plus a risk penalty
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Correct answer: D - Relinquishes its share of production until the consenting parties recover costs plus a risk penalty

Question 8

An operator cannot obtain a lease or voluntary agreement from one mineral owner in a proposed drilling unit. The operator petitions the state regulatory authority, which orders that owner into the unit to prevent waste and protect correlative rights. This action is BEST described as:

  1. Compulsory (forced) pooling ordered by the state authority
  2. Voluntary pooling under the pooling clause contained in the lease
  3. Fieldwide unitization for purposes of secondary recovery operations
  4. Partition of the mineral estate among the owners
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Correct answer: A - Compulsory (forced) pooling ordered by the state authority

Question 9

A mineral owner who has leased the minerals wants to drill a well, but the surface owner objects because it will disturb an existing irrigation system. Under the accommodation doctrine, how are these competing rights generally reconciled?

  1. The surface estate is dominant, so the surface owner's existing, established irrigation use will always prevail over drilling
  2. The mineral estate is dominant, but the lessee must reasonably accommodate the existing use where alternatives exist
  3. The estates hold equal and coordinate rights, so a court must physically partition the tract between the two owners
  4. The mineral owner is required to purchase the surface estate outright before any drilling operations may begin
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Correct answer: B - The mineral estate is dominant, but the lessee must reasonably accommodate the existing use where alternatives exist

Question 10

Using the Public Land Survey System, how many acres are contained in the S/2 of the NW/4 of the SE/4 of a standard section?

  1. 80 acres
  2. 40 acres
  3. 20 acres
  4. 160 acres
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Correct answer: C - 20 acres

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