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Offshore Companies Face Surge in BSEE Enforcement Actions and Penalties

The Energy Law

Together, these developments will undoubtedly lead to more litigation and a higher cost of doing business on the Outer Continental Shelf. The number of civil penalty cases has risen gradually since 2009, with a sharp increase over 2013-2015. In 2013, the average penalty was $67,714 over 42 cases. 7 (2016). [1]

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Overturning 8 Years of “Palpable Error,” The Louisiana Supreme Court Limits Damages Available to Landowners in Oilfield Legacy Litigation

The Energy Law

In the landmark oilfield remediation case Corbello v. However, there was no mechanism to ensure that a penny of the $33 million awarded in Corbello would be spent on clean-up. In 2013, the decision in State of Louisiana v. After the LL&E I decision, the case went to trial in 2015. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co.,

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Overturning 8 Years of “Palpable Error,” The Louisiana Supreme Court Limits Damages Available to Landowners in Oilfield Legacy Litigation

The Energy Law

In the landmark oilfield remediation case Corbello v. However, there was no mechanism to ensure that a penny of the $33 million awarded in Corbello would be spent on clean-up. In 2013, the decision in State of Louisiana v. After the LL&E I decision, the case went to trial in 2015. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co.,

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

The Energy Law

1] Prior to the Pennsylvania ruling, there were two seminal cases that have addressed the issue and reached conflicting results. The court found that an actionable trespass claim requires an injury and that the only claimed injury in this case—drainage of gas from beneath the plaintiff’s property—was barred by the rule of capture. [3]

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The Good Neighbor Provision on Steroids: Third Circuit Ruling Resurrects Clean Air Act Section 126(b)

The Energy Law

In the recent ruling, the Third Circuit held that it was reasonable for EPA to interpret Section 126(b) to be an “independent mechanism for enforcing interstate pollution control,” thereby giving EPA authority to directly regulate a specific source in an upwind state. July 12, 2013) (pdf). See GenOn REMA, LLC v. 12-1022, slip op.

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Unleashing sustainable potential: harnessing machine learning on AWS for optimal energy usage

AWS: Energy (Oil & Gas)

In our case study, we achieved reduction in operational costs by 5% ($2.5 You can trigger AWS Glue periodically or on-demand to process your raw telemetry data into the format needed for downstream analytic use cases. 2013 setting. million cost reduction in the first year) along with its associated carbon emissions.