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The Energy Law
MAY 5, 2023
2023), the Texas Supreme Court held that the lessee could not invoke a force majeure clause to save its oil and gas leases when it inadvertently scheduled its operations to begin after the requisite deadline. The lessee, MRC Permian Company, received four identical oil and gas leases from certain lessors in 2014.
The Energy Law
AUGUST 29, 2022
Army Corps of Engineers to Driftwood LNG – a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction near Lake Charles. 1] The petition was filed – and the suit will proceed – in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which has jurisdiction over such matters pursuant to The Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C.
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The Energy Law
AUGUST 4, 2023
COG owned the minerals under four leases in Reeves County, Texas executed between 2005 and 2014. Those leases granted COG the exclusive right to produce “oil and gas” or “oil, gas and other hydrocarbons.” As background, many areas in Texas contain shale formations that are dense and have poor permeability.
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Delaware Basin Resources LLC , 08-20-00060-CV, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth District of Texas (El Paso) recently held oral argument on the proper construction of the word “and” used in a Delaware Basin oil and gas lease. All of the provisions. and Section 2.” DBR further argued that the leases’ reference to “said land.
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Delaware Basin Resources LLC , 08-20-00060-CV, the Court of Appeals for the Eighth District of Texas (El Paso) recently held oral argument on the proper construction of the word “and” used in a Delaware Basin oil and gas lease. All of the provisions. and Section 2.” DBR further argued that the leases’ reference to “said land.
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.),
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
2014), another case involving an arbitration clause which incorporated the AAA rules and explicitly exempted certain claims from arbitration. Therefore, litigants and practitioners in the Fifth Circuit should continue to look to the Fifth Circuit’s decision for guidance in determining “who” decides whether a claim is arbitrable.
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