Opinion ID: 2429057
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Heading: the agreement's quantity requirements and term

Text: Conoco claims that the court of appeals should have affirmed the trial court's conclusion that the 1984 Amendment extended the Agreement's term to equal the productive lives of the wells and extended the quantity obligations to equal the wells' possible production. Alternatively, Conoco argues that the quantity requirements and term are ambiguous and therefore present jury questions. We agree with the court of appeals' analysis of the Agreement's quantity requirements and term. Giving the language its plain meaning and construing it to avoid rendering any language meaningless, only one plausible construction of the Agreement and the Amendment exists: Northern was obligated to deliver for processing all gas that it bought under the dedicated gas purchase contracts for twenty years, and as long thereafter as purchases continued under those contracts, but Northern was never obligated to perpetuate the gas purchase contracts or to deliver any gas for processing if no gas was purchased. Therefore, we affirm those parts of the court of appeals' judgment addressing quantity and term for the reasons stated in the court of appeals' opinion. [1]