The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VIDA, enacted in December 2018, will standardize incidental discharge permits and regulations, replacing the 2013 Vessel General Permit (“VGP”) that commercial vessels are currently required to follow. Although the deadline for doing so was December 4, 2020, these standards have not yet been finalized or implemented.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

for alleged damage to its property arising out of Chevron’s and its predecessor’s oil and gas operations in the Sardine Point Field from 1959 through 1991. In October 2013, Lexington Land filed a supplemental and amending lawsuit asserting its assigned claims against Chevron under both tort and contract theories.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

for alleged damage to its property arising out of Chevron’s and its predecessor’s oil and gas operations in the Sardine Point Field from 1959 through 1991. In October 2013, Lexington Land filed a supplemental and amending lawsuit asserting its assigned claims against Chevron under both tort and contract theories.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In re Oil Spill by Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in Gulf of Mex., 2013); Plaisance v. 2013); Plaisance v. See Barker v. Hercules Offshore, Inc., 3d 208, 224 (5th Cir. Here, the court again left the question open, finding that the complaint failed to satisfy either the physical-injury test or the zone-of-danger test.

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The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2021

Iowa Production , landowners sued oil and gas companies for breach of a mineral lease. In 2013, the decision in State of Louisiana v. This was all done in light of this Court’s 2013 La. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co., 2020-00685 (La. 6/30/2021); — So. 3d — (“ LL&E II ”). [1]. 2d 686 (La. LL&E II , at *2.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 9, 2016

Atlantic Richfield Company , finding that the statutory scheme at issue provided administrative channels to investigate and resolve alleged permit violations, and thus those remedies must be exhausted before the plaintiffs could pursue civil damages through the courts.

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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2016

allowing an $81 million judgment against the oil company to stand. The judgment is the latest in a suit the EPA filed against CITGO under the Clean Water Act for a 2006 spill at the oil company’s St. Charles refinery. In the original judgment , U.S. Adm’r of E.P.A. CITGO Petroleum Corp., 3d 547, 549 (5th Cir. million dollars.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2020

The second prelude to the recent Pennsylvania decision was a 2013 Federal District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia ruling in Stone v. 2] Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. 5:12–CV–102, 2013 WL 2097397 (N.D. Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C. [4] 1] Briggs v. Garza Energy Trust, 268 S.W.3d

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The Energy Law

APRIL 19, 2021

The Texas Supreme Court recently released its anticipated opinion in Eagle Oil & Gas Co. TRO-X”) and Eagle Oil & Gas Co. Eagle”) regarding their agreement to jointly acquire and sell oil and gas leases. In the first, Eagle Oil & Gas Co. In the first, Eagle Oil & Gas Co. Eastland 2013, pet.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 19, 2021

The Texas Supreme Court recently released its anticipated opinion in Eagle Oil & Gas Co. TRO-X”) and Eagle Oil & Gas Co. Eagle”) regarding their agreement to jointly acquire and sell oil and gas leases. In the first, Eagle Oil & Gas Co. In the first, Eagle Oil & Gas Co. Eastland 2013, pet.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 12, 2017

7] In 2013, the Plaintiffs made demand on the Defendant-Lessee on the grounds that “despite the October 30, 2012 effective date of the Commissioner’s Order, [the Defendant-Lessee] refused to pay Plaintiffs their full [1/5] Lessor’s Royalty” pursuant to the mineral lease between the parties. [8] Anglo-Dutch Energy, L.L.C. ,

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The Energy Law

MAY 18, 2020

The Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal recently issued an opinion involving issues of prescription and breach of contract claims in the context of Act 312 and “legacy lawsuits” that oil and gas companies must remain cognizant of going forward. In State of Louisiana, et al. Louisiana Land & Exploration Co., 3d 1038 (La.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 2, 2020

Amidst historically low oil prices and economic shutdowns, fossil fuel companies continue to defend against lawsuits brought by state and local governments claiming climate-change related damages. 251, 258 (2013) (citing Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. Minton , 568 U.S. Darue Engineering & Manufacturing, 545 U.S.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 7, 2018

However, his surviving wife and children did not file suit against various pipe yard and oil company defendants until almost four years later – in January 2014. Lennie had worked for the pipe yard for a number of years, and 16 years after his retirement, in 2010, Mr. Lennie was diagnosed with lung cancer and died that same year.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 11, 2017

Hardy Gulf Oil Corp. , 545, 554 (1866)); see also 2 Benedict on Admiralty § 44 (Matthew/Bender 2013) (“[M]aritime law permits an action in rem against the cargo itself.”). 2d 826, 833 (5th Cir. One of these is when the parties stand in a “special relationship.” Cities Serv. Lee-Vac, Ltd. , 2d 238, 240 (5th Cir. 1985) (citing Fed.

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