The Energy Law

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Louisiana Supreme Court recently issued a decision in a downhole damages case, reversing the Third Circuit’s misguided application of the manifest error standard of review. 2014-C-2592, 2015 La. The case itself necessitated extremely nuanced and technical testimony regarding the geology and geophysics of the formations.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The distributor argued that the inclusion of its request for injunctive relief brought the case under the carve-out in the arbitration provision. This is now the second time this case has been before the Supreme Court on issues of arbitrability. It also rejected the “wholly groundless” exception altogether. 3d 1010 (2d Cir.

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The Energy Law

MAY 6, 2016

The Colorado Oil and Gas Association sought a declaratory judgment invalidating and permanently enjoining the enforcement of the Article. Colorado Oil and Gas Association , 2016 CO 29, P. Oil and Gas Ass’n , 16 CO 28 (Colo. In 2014, St. City of Longmont v. City of Fort Collins v. Tammany Parish Government v.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Maintaining that the plaintiff qualified as a seaman under controlling Fifth Circuit precedent but questioning that precedent in light of Supreme Court case law, the panel urged the Fifth Circuit to review the case en banc. Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

On September 2, 2014, the Department of Justice announced a settlement in United States v. requiring the oil and gas company to pay $3 million in civil penalties and to spend approximately $13 million to restore 15 sites in West Virginia that had been developed without dredge and fill permits. Trans Energy, Inc. , 14-117 (N.D.W.Va.),

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The Energy Law

JUNE 9, 2014

On May 30, 2014, in an unanimous decision in National Environmental Development Association’s Clean Air Project v. The EPA had argued that an operationally interdependent relationship (in the Summit case, spanning a 43-square mile area) was enough to find that pollutant-emitting activities were “adjacent.” May 30, 2014).

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Maintaining that the plaintiff qualified as a seaman under controlling Fifth Circuit precedent but questioning that precedent in light of Supreme Court case law, the panel urged the Fifth Circuit to review the case en banc. Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 24, 2018

2014) (en banc). In reaching its decision, the Ninth Circuit was required to distinguish the recent en banc Fifth Circuit McBride decision, which reached the opposite conclusion in 2014. Compare McBride v. Estis Well Service , 768 F.3d 3d 382 (5th Cir. Apex Marine Corp. , 19 (1990) on this area of law.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 26, 2019

1] The dispute in Johnson involved a group of unleased mineral owners (“UMOs”) who filed suit against a unit operator for deducting a litany of post-production costs against their share of production proceeds from an oil and gas unit in the Haynesville Shale. [2] Chesapeake Louisiana, LP. [1] 2] The UMOs argued that La. 12] See id. [13]

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The Energy Law

JUNE 24, 2014

On June 20, 2014, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled in Key Operating & Equipment, Inc. Hegar (PDF) that a mineral lessee in a pooled oil and gas unit has the right to use the entire surface of the pooled acreage, regardless of the location of the producing well or whether actual production from beneath the accessed surface can be proven.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2020

With the prevalence of cases involving royalty disputes in Texas, the state’s Supreme Court has never hesitated to address these issues. In 1996, the Court issued the first of its now infamous holdings on the deductibility of post-production costs from oil and gas royalties. Oil & Gas Co. El Paso 2014, pet.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 30, 2020

On November 5, 2014, the landowner provided notice to the mineral servitude owner that the mineral servitude expired and requested a recordable act evidencing its expiration effective June 28, 2006. He also testified that the amount of production and gas prices at the time provided an incentive to keep the mineral servitude alive.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 19, 2020

On September 14, 2014, James Mays, a valve technician and an employee of Furmanite American (“Furmanite”) died while servicing valves on a platform that was part of Chevron’s gas gathering system and located in Louisiana’s territorial waters. The Court also distinguished Valladolid and another case cited by Chevron, Baker v.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 13, 2017

Settoon arose out of a February 2014 collision on the Mississippi River near Convent, Louisiana. These types of damages, however, have long been prohibited under the general maritime law (the default body of federal common law governing maritime cases) under the familiar Robins Dry Dock rule.

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Drillers

MARCH 24, 2020

billion barrels of proven oil reserves as well as 5.675 trillion cubic metres of natural gas, which explains why the supermajors are not too tired of their problems in Nigeria. While bumpy, this road has since 2014 led to a marked drop in attacks on oil infrastructure in the Delta.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Supreme Court case, Burwell v. 2751 (2014). Duncan has also recently acted as general counsel for Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and was lead counsel on behalf of Hobby Lobby in the recent U.S. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Mr. Duncan received his undergraduate and law degrees from Louisiana State University and earned an L.L.M.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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Oil and Gas Investments

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

At the time SunPower acquired them, Blue Raven had a CAGR of 93% since 2014. In many cases they just lease a roof from the homeowner, front cost of installation upfront and collect revenue directly from a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the utility. Of course its a different world now. Blue Raven likely isnt growing much at all.

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