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Offshore Companies Face Surge in BSEE Enforcement Actions and Penalties

The Energy Law

For example, in 2014 the agency imposed a civil penalty of $1,230,000—an unprecedented figure in the history of the BSEE civil penalty program. BSEE collected civil penalties in 22 cases in 2009, 26 cases in 2010, 30 cases in 2011, 31 cases in 2012, 42 cases in 2013, 53 cases in 2014, and 42 cases in 2015. million in civil penalties.

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Unpacking Proximate Cause in SWD Failure

Producer's Edge

In September of 2014, Memorial injected volumes exceeding the permitted limits on several days, and on September 25, 2014 the wellbore failed causing a massive quantity of fluid to gush out of the ground causing significant alleged damages. Ownership and operation of the SWD5 changed hands several times in the following years.

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Ninth and Fifth Circuits Split on Issue of Punitive Damages Under Maritime Law

The Energy Law

2014) (en banc). Alleging that the lack of an exhaust mechanism made the vessel unseaworthy, the plaintiff sued the vessel owner for unseaworthiness, seeking punitive damages among other remedies. 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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