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Fifth Circuit holds purchase and sales agreement complies with Statute of Frauds

The Energy Law Blog

10-20599, 2012 U.S. 1, 2012) The Fifth Circuit recently vacated a judgment in the U.S. 10-20599, 2012 U.S. By Joanna Nelson : Preston Exploration Co., GSF , L.L.C., LEXIS 1873 (5th Cir. Preston Exploration Co., GSF, L.L.C., LEXIS 1873, *12 (5th Cir. at *15-16.

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Natural Gas Making an Impact Through Statewide Projects

Marcellus Shale Coalition

Since 2012, impact fees have provided more than $2.7 This project will complete portions of the trail that connects the 20 th Street entryways into the park and create more recreational opportunities for the local community and visitors. What Theyre Saying Senator Anthony H. Struzzi said. Representative Gina H.

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Environmental Groups File Suit to Compel EPA to Review and Revise Oil and Gas Waste Regulations

The Energy Law Blog

According to the complaint, EPA “has not completed these necessary revisions,” nor has it reviewed the Subtitle D regulations for oil and gas wastes since that time. McCarthy , Case No. In that case, the parties eventually settled, and EPA agreed in a consent decree to finalize RCRA Subtitle D coal ash regulations by a certain date.

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Louisiana Third Circuit Addresses Payment of Royalties in Situations Involving Production Under a Mineral Lease Pursuant to a Conditional Allowable Prior to Unitization

The Energy Law Blog

1] In the case, the Plaintiffs granted a mineral lease to the Defendant-Lessee that provided for a 1/5 royalty in 2009. [2] 2] The Defendant-Lessee drilled a gas well on the leased premises on February 14, 2012. [3] 1] In the case, the Plaintiffs granted a mineral lease to the Defendant-Lessee that provided for a 1/5 royalty in 2009.

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Trans Energy Settlement Shows Need for E&P Wetlands Compliance Strategy

The Energy Law Blog

The most recent versions of the NWPs were reissued in 2012, and they will be valid for five years, until March 18, 2017. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has issued water quality certification (PDF) for NWP-12 without conditions, but it will issue such certification for NWP-39 only on a case-by-case basis.

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Louisiana Supreme Court Denies Writ Application in XXI Oil & Gas v. Hilcorp

The Energy Law Blog

7] Before the decision, some practitioners believed that this phrase only required an operator to forfeit drilling costs associated with a well and excluded other costs associated with completing, equipping, or operating a well. [8] of natural gas in future cases. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, 2012.

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EPA and BSEE Team Up to Resolve Offshore Environmental Violations

The Energy Law Blog

The Violation In March 2012, BSEE conducted an inspection of ATP’s floating production platform facility, known as the ATP Innovator, while it was moored to the sea floor about 45 nautical miles offshore of southeastern Louisiana (about 125 miles south of New Orleans) and engaged in the production of oil and natural gas. .