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bottom-hole cash

bottom-hole cash

[′bäd·əm ‚hōl ¦kash]
(petroleum engineering)
Cash which is contributed by mineral-rights lessees adjacent to a drilling lessee and which is payable when the well reaches a specified depth, regardless of whether or not the completed well is a producer.
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