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Texas Supreme Court Holds Producer Not Required to Share in Natural Gas Pipeline Compression Costs

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13-0596 , the Supreme Court of Texas interpreted a natural gas-purchase contract and held that a producer was not required to share in the costs of compression, even though that compression helped yield a higher re-sale price. Kachinaā€¯) operates a natural gas gathering system, as well as a gas pipeline. Lillis, No.

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2023 Begins With Increased (or Unlimited) Liability for Vessel Owners

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10] While the rule does not specify whether the new limits apply retroactively to oil spills that occur before the effective date, case law indicates that the change will be prospective only. [11] 21] These efforts usually fail, but occasionallyā€”as in the case of MORRO CASTLE and now CONCEPTIONā€”they succeed, even if only partially.

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Texas Court Upholds Lease Cancellation for Failure to Pay Shut-In Payments To Proper Party

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ā€”Tyler 5/5/2010), the Tyler Court of Appeals upheld a trial courtā€™s findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to the termination of an oil and gas lease for failure to pay shut-in royalty payments to the proper party. The case involved a dispute between the original lessee and a top lessee.

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Is the Frequency of Louisiana Environmental Quality Act Citizen Suit Litigation Increasing?

The Energy Law

Legacy litigation claims generally concern alleged contamination arising from historic oil and gas operations under theories of both breach of contract and tort. Recently, those typical types of claims have been supplemented in some legacy litigation cases with citizen suit allegations based on the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act.

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Is the Frequency of Louisiana Environmental Quality Act Citizen Suit Litigation Increasing?

The Energy Law

Legacy litigation claims generally concern alleged contamination arising from historic oil and gas operations under theories of both breach of contract and tort. Recently, those typical types of claims have been supplemented in some legacy litigation cases with citizen suit allegations based on the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act.

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Nominees Announced for U.S. Fifth Circuit and Eastern District of Louisiana Seats

The Energy Law

Supreme Court case, Burwell v. Bush in 2001. Duncan has also served as an Assistant Solicitor General in the Office of the Solicitor General in the Texas Attorney Generalā€™s Office and worked in private practice at the firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 2751 (2014). from Columbia University Law School.