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You Cannot Just Read the Regulations to Understand Stormwater Permitting for Oil and Gas Activities!

The Energy Law

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. The 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) added language creating a permitting exemption for uncontaminated runoff from Oil and Gas operations.

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

The Energy Law

The plaintiff, Martha Ellison d/b/a Ellison Lease Operating, alleged that the defendant lessees, Samson Resources Company (“Samson”), COG Operating LLC (“Concho”), drilled and operated a well on her leasehold. The parties signed the stipulation in August and September 2008, and it was subsequently recorded in the county records.

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Weather-based photovoltaic monitoring: how BDPV scales on AWS

AWS: Energy (Oil & Gas)

Their solution combines advanced weather data and sophisticated algorithms to monitor and optimize solar energy production for small-scale producers. In this post, we explore how BDPV used AWS services to build a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective monitoring architecture. Production performance tracking Figure 3.

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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Energy Bill

The Energy Law

Title I addresses the existing moratoria, future OCS access, exploration, production and royalty questions. House of Representatives passed Speaker Pelosi’s Energy Bill, H.R. 6899, titled “Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act.”

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law

Decommis sioning liability for predecessors: Current regulations – All lessees and owners of operating rights are jointly and severally liable for meeting decommissioning obligations. A party that assigns a record title interest or operating rights remains liable for decommissioning liability. This first of such NTLs, NTL No.

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Expand Energy: From Chesapeake’s Fall to America’s Top Natural Gas Producer

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Before it was Expand Energy, the largest natural gas-weighted exploration and production company in the U.S., The newly formed company, now known as Expand Energy, operates under the Nasdaq ticker EXE, symbolizing its fresh identity in the energy landscape. From Bankruptcy to #1! it was Chesapeake Energy. With its recent $7.4

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

The Energy Law

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had finalized a voluntary disclosure program for new owners of upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production facilities. 1, 2008) – which allow for the elimination of the gravity component of the penalty rather than the entire penalty. On March 29, 2019, the U.S.