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Texas Supreme Court Update: Boundary Dispute Between Leasehold Owner and Lessees of Adjacent Tract

The Energy Law

In 2008, Samson’s landman prepared a Boundary Stipulation of Ownership of Mineral Interest between the Farmars (owners of the southeast-tract mineral estate) and the Richeys (owners of the northwest-tract mineral estate). The parties signed the stipulation in August and September 2008, and it was subsequently recorded in the county records.

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Texas Supreme Court Update: Boundary Dispute Between Leasehold Owner and Lessees of Adjacent Tract

The Energy Law

In 2008, Samson’s landman prepared a Boundary Stipulation of Ownership of Mineral Interest between the Farmars (owners of the southeast-tract mineral estate) and the Richeys (owners of the northwest-tract mineral estate). The parties signed the stipulation in August and September 2008, and it was subsequently recorded in the county records.

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BOEM Releases Long Awaited New Financial Assurance Notice to Lessees and Operators

The Energy Law

2008-N07, which was commonly referred to by industry as the “supplemental bond” NTL. New BOEM NTL No. 2016-N01, dated July 12, 2016, takes effect on September 12, 2016 and supersedes and replaces NTL No. While NTL No. While NTL No. Under new NTL No.

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Contra Non Not Applicable: Louisiana Appellate Court Refuses to Find Exception to Running of Prescription

The Energy Law

The court first analyzed the “education and intelligence” of the plaintiff’s two owners. The court first analyzed the “education and intelligence” of the plaintiff’s two owners. Ignorance due to a plaintiff’s own willfulness or neglect does not prevent prescription from running. Was Bayou Fleet’s conduct “reasonable”?

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EPA’s New Audit Program for New Owners of Upstream Oil and Natural Gas Facilities

The Energy Law

1, 2008) – which allow for the elimination of the gravity component of the penalty rather than the entire penalty. EPA has acknowledged that this penalty relief is greater than what it offers under its preexisting audit policies – Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations, 65 Fed.

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Louisiana Supreme Court Holds Punitive Damages Are Available Under General Maritime Law Against Products Liability Defendant

The Energy Law

471 (2008) limited the ratio of punitive damages to compensatory damages in maritime cases at 1:1. 471, 510 (2008). [6] Ratio between the Punitive Damages Award and the Harm the Defendant’s Conduct Caused, or Could Have Caused The Louisiana Supreme Court rejected Teleflex’s argument that Exxon Shipping Co. Baker , 554 U.S.

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Weighs in on Hydraulic Fracturing and Subsurface Trespass

The Energy Law

The first is a 2008 Texas Supreme Court decision in which the court framed the issue as “whether subsurface hydraulic fracturing of a natural gas well that extends into another’s property is a trespass for which the value of gas drained as a result may be recovered as damages.” [2] 1] Briggs v. Garza Energy Trust, 268 S.W.3d