The company signed a lease acquisition and development agreement to pay an initial $10 million for the land.

Sundance will then pay two separate payments of $7 million each.

The term of the lease agreement is two years, with a one-year extension of $500 per acreage.

This agreement takes Sundance’s total position in McMullen county to about 160 gross drilling locations.

A two-rig horizontal drilling programme is under way at the project.

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