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. In reaching its decision, the Fifth Circuit looked to the Second Circuit’s decision in NASDAQ OMX Grp., UBS Securities, LLC , 770 F.3d 3d 1010 (2d Cir.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2016

This clarification comes after a number of leaks in 2014 and 2015 from pipelines that were believed to be “abandoned.” Parts 192 and 195 (2016).

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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. One such conflict arose between Cactus Water Services, LLC (“Cactus”) and COG Operating, LLC (“COG”). Those leases granted COG the exclusive right to produce “oil and gas” or “oil, gas and other hydrocarbons.”

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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. A tug owned by Marquette collided with an oil-carrying barge owned by Settoon as the Marquette tug attempted to overtake the Settoon flotilla.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 7, 2018

On Thursday, a divided panel of the Texas Court of Appeals in Houston held that the 2014-2015 drop in oil prices is not a force majeure for purposes of general force majeure contractual protection. In TEC Olmos, LLC v.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 27, 2020

117 (2014). [4] Brown , 564 U.S. 915 (2011). [3] 3] Daimler AG v. Bauman , 571 U.S. 4] BNSF Ry. Tyrrell , 137 S. 1549 (2017).

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Oil and gas operator, Delaware Basin Resources LLC (DBR), entered into 13 leases with 13 mineral owners in February 2014, all of which were essentially the same. The meaning of the word is hotly contested, the death of a lease potentially worth millions of dollars largely depending on the interpretation of a single conjunction.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 24, 2019

2014) held that punitive damages were not available under the rationale of an earlier Supreme Court case, Miles v. The district court denied the defendant’s motion to strike the punitive damages claim; the Ninth Circuit affirmed. This decision set up a split in the circuits, because three years earlier the en banc Fifth Circuit in McBride v.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 12, 2018

3] In 2014, the Bottley heirs (represented by the same counsel as Lester ) filed a motion to consolidate the Bottley action with Lester. Cornelius Bottley, for exposure to naturally occurring radioactive materials “NORM” while working at various pipe yards.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

2014); Barker v. 2014); Barker v. Nevertheless, the court engaged in detailed analysis of the test, [3] and the opinion indicates that a formal adoption could be on the horizon. [1] citing Naquin v. Elevating Boats, L.L.C., 3d 927, 931, 938 (5th Cir. Hercules Offshore, Inc., 3d 208, 224 (5th Cir. 2013); Plaisance v. Texaco, Inc.,

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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2016

The result is consistent, however, with the EPA’s 2014-2018 Strategic Plan of focusing on large cases, and its recent pattern of pursuing fewer enforcement actions with larger resolutions. See Environmental Enforcement Results for 2015 , 2015 ABA Env’t Energy, & Resources L.: Year in Rev.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. Supreme Court case, Burwell v. 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

2014), another case involving an arbitration clause which incorporated the AAA rules and explicitly exempted certain claims from arbitration. In reaching its decision, the Fifth Circuit looked to the Second Circuit’s decision in NASDAQ OMX Grp., UBS Securities, LLC , 770 F.3d 3d 1010 (2d Cir.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Oil and gas operator, Delaware Basin Resources LLC (DBR), entered into 13 leases with 13 mineral owners in February 2014, all of which were essentially the same. The meaning of the word is hotly contested, the death of a lease potentially worth millions of dollars largely depending on the interpretation of a single conjunction.

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The Energy Law

JULY 21, 2016

According to one 2014 study, the total direct and indirect impact on the state is approximately $73.8 The oil and gas industry has a significant and far reaching economic impact in Louisiana. 1] Taxes make up a large part of the industry’s direct economic impact in Louisiana: In 2013, the industry paid nearly $1.5

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

The number of offshore lease blocks in the Gulf of Mexico designated as SSRAs doubled from 337 in 2014 to 686 today. SSRAs are identified by their OCS lease block name and number and are listed on the BOEM MMP website, [link].

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The Energy Law

JULY 21, 2016

On August 22, 2014, District Judge Martin L.C. The Landowners claimed that their property value decreased due to the designation and that they had future plans to develop Unit 1 for residential and commercial development and timber operations.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Stat § 30:10(A)(3)) [10] See id. 12] See id. [13] 13] See id. [14] 14] See id. 15] See id. 16] See id. [17] 17] See id. [18] 18] See id. 20] See id. at 5 (citing Adams v. Chesapeake Operating, Inc., App’x 322 (5th Cir. 21] See id.

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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. A well was spud on March 28, 2006. The well was a dry hole, however, and was therefore plugged and abandoned on April 21, 2006.

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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. Chevron Pipe Line Co.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2020

El Paso 2014, pet. The El Paso Court of Appeals, relying on Heritage Resources , has held that a no-deductions clause requiring royalties on the “gross value received” is mere surplusage in a lease requiring royalties based on “market value at the well.” Comm’r of Gen. Land Office of Tex. SandRidge Energy, Inc. , 3d 603, 608-09 (Tex.

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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 was diagnosed with lung cancer and died that same year.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The panel held that Sanchez met the nature test because his case was indistinguishable from two prior Fifth Circuit cases: In re Endeavor Marine , 234 F.3d 3d 287 (5th Cir. 2000) (per curiam) and Naquin v. Elevating Boats, L.L.C. , 3d 927 (5th Cir. The plaintiff in Endeavor Marine worked on a moored derrick barge on the Mississippi River.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The panel held that Sanchez met the nature test because his case was indistinguishable from two prior Fifth Circuit cases: In re Endeavor Marine , 234 F.3d 3d 287 (5th Cir. 2000) (per curiam) and Naquin v. Elevating Boats, L.L.C. , 3d 927 (5th Cir. The plaintiff in Endeavor Marine worked on a moored derrick barge on the Mississippi River.

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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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The Energy Law

JULY 28, 2017

The USFWS’ critical habitat designation was upheld by Judge Feldman in the Eastern District of Louisiana in 2014, affirmed by a 2-1 decision in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2016, and denied an en banc rehearing by an 8-6 vote of the Fifth Circuit in February 2017.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

2008), and a 2014 decision, in which the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals finding that SSM exemptions were impermissible under a sister provision of the CAA (Section 112, dealing with National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants), Sierra Club v. Johnson , 551 F.3d 3d 1019 (D.C. EPA , 749 F.3d 3d 1055 (D.C.

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