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U.S. Shale Revolution Slows Down: The Start of a Decline?

Energy Central

Oil and gas fields, no matter how productive, eventually decline. Beginning in 2006, U.S. Before the transformative impact of the shale boom, U.S. oil production had been steadily falling for decades, while natural gas output had plateaued. The Shale Boom’s Impact on U.S. natural gas production surged by an impressive.

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Louisiana Second Circuit Provides Guidance as to Good Faith Required When Conducting Operations Necessary to Interrupt Prescription of Mineral Servitude

The Energy Law

In January 2006, approximately 6 months before the servitude would expire for non-use, the mineral servitude owner conveyed the servitude to an affiliated business entity on the condition that it drill a well on the property by June 15, 2006. A well was spud on March 28, 2006.

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Acquisitive Prescription and Predial Servitudes

The Energy Law

One of the defendants filed a reconventional demand, alleging that he had exercised for over thirty years a right-of-way over the bridge to gain access to his sugarcane field. In Davis , the plaintiffs filed a Petition for Declaratory Judgment seeking access to their property by crossing over a bridge that the defendants had allegedly locked.

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Christmas Eve Edition: 2024 Oil and Gas Results – Top Deals and a Bonus to End the Year

Rextag

Fact: This was Conocos boldest move since its merger with Burlington Resources in 2006. Shell plans to invest $5 billion in the Bonga North project, a deepwater field off the Nigerian coast, which aligns with President Bola Tinubu's goal of attracting foreign capital.

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Fifth Circuit Applies U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett Decision to End Long-Standing WOTUS Dispute

The Energy Law

As detailed in our prior Sackett blog article , CWA jurisdictional decisions have been plagued by administrative rulings, guidance, and court opinions that attempted to implement the plurality opinion in the Supreme Court’s 2006 Rapanos v.

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Texas Supreme Court to Hear Miesch Case

The Energy Law

For a copy of TxOGA’s brief, click on the following link Amicus Curiae Brief of TXOGA – Received: 10/16/2006 . In the Supreme Court of Texas) Emerald, a subsequent lessee of Exxon, sued Exxon for wrongful conduct “in the development and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the Mary Ellen O’Connor Field.” Emerald Oil & Gas v.

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Louisiana Legislature Modifies Oilfield Cleanup Legislation

The Energy Law

ACT 312 BEFORE THE NEW LEGISLATION Act 312 of the 2006 legislative session was enacted in response to judicial decisions that awarded significant damages for remediation costs with no obligation for landowners to actually use such awards for cleanup work. These changes are summarized below. Mr. McNeal received his LL.M.

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