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Nigeria Oil Industry Overview

Drillers

Recently, the Nigerian government demanded more than $60 billion in back royalties under a production sharing agreement with the supermajors operating in the country. The government has been fighting the illicit refineries for years. The government had little choice but to try and negotiate peace with the militants.

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New Texas Legislation Authorizes TCEQ to Permit Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Energy Law

The legislation gives TCEQ the authority to issue permits authorizing GHG emissions and develop rules governing the permitting process as well as rules for transitioning the process away from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) to TCEQ. However, the case is still pending before the D.C. 10-1425, 2013 U.S.

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SCOTUS Decides Dutra Group v. Batterton

The Energy Law

Today the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in this landmark case concerning punitive damages. 2014) held that punitive damages were not available under the rationale of an earlier Supreme Court case, Miles v. Estis Well Service , 768 F.3d 3d 382 (5 th Cir. Apex Marine, 498 U.S.

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Western District of Louisiana Holds that Unit Operators May Not Recover Post-Production Costs from an Unleased Mineral Owner’s Share of Production Proceeds

The Energy Law

30:10 governed whether a unit operator may deduct post-production costs against UMO’s share of production proceeds. [3] 30:10 was inapplicable to the case because the costs outlined in the statute comprised only pre-production and production costs. 30:10, which governs agreements for drilling units and pooling interests in Louisiana.

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Fracking Scores with Two Colorado Supreme Court Opinions

The Energy Law

In 2014, St. Tammany Parish Government v. These recent cases point out that the authority to regulate fracking varies from state to state and should be evaluated accordingly. This moratorium, like the home-rule charter article, was preempted by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act. Welsh , 15-1152 (La.

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U.S. Fifth Circuit Greenlights Contribution Action for Purely Economic Damages Under Oil Pollution Act (OPA)

The Energy Law

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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Trudging the Rocky Landscape of Royalty Dispute Litigation with the Texas Supreme Court Yet Again in BlueStone

The Energy Law

With the prevalence of cases involving royalty disputes in Texas, the state’s Supreme Court has never hesitated to address these issues. Heritage Resources is the underlying case that must be understood to decipher the Supreme Court’s logic as it continues to rectify the numerous creative royalty provisions across Texas today.

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