The Energy Law

JULY 20, 2018

After some thirty years of wrestling with the cumbersome six-part test set forth in Davis & Sons, Inc. and (2) Does the contract provide or do the parties expect that a vessel will play a substantial role in the completion of the contract? Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. [3] Next, the court confirmed that the work was performed on “navigable waters.”

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The Energy Law

JUNE 28, 2018

On or about May 23, 2018, several Defendants in the Coastal Zone Management Act (“CZMA”) Litigation filed Notices of Removal in 42 lawsuits filed against 212 oil and gas companies by six different parishes (Plaquemines, Jefferson, Cameron, Vermilion, St. Bernard, and St. John the Baptist), removing the cases to federal court.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VIDA, enacted in December 2018, will standardize incidental discharge permits and regulations, replacing the 2013 Vessel General Permit (“VGP”) that commercial vessels are currently required to follow. It also requires the U.S. It also requires the U.S. The USCG will then have two years to develop and finalize corresponding regulations.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 17, 2020

1] The Internal Revenue Service (“ IRS ”) now has published guidance on how refunds attributable to the newly-permitted 5-year carryback of NOLs in section 172 of the Internal Revenue Code (the “ Code ”) and the accelerated use of AMT Carryforward Credits in section 53(e) of the Code can be obtained.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 15, 2020

Below we take a closer look at each category of lawsuits and provide an update on where they stand today. The states of New York and Massachusetts, through their Attorney General, each filed a suit against Exxon Mobil Corporation asserting investor fraud related claims. In the New York litigation, ExxonMobil successfully defended itself last month.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

In January 2018, FERC granted PennEast’s request. On June 29, 2021, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, held that a natural gas company’s right to condemn property for a pipeline under the Natural Gas Act includes the right to condemn state-owned property. In PennEast Pipeline Co.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 19, 2020

In its March 2018 ruling in Cyan Inc. In December 2018, the Delaware Chancery Court invalidated all three exclusive federal forum provisions. In December 2018, the Delaware Chancery Court invalidated all three exclusive federal forum provisions. 1061 (2018). [2] 2017-0931-JTL, 2018 WL 6719718 (Del. 19, 2018). [3]

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The Energy Law

MARCH 25, 2019

Due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) passed by Congress in December 2017, starting in 2018 many 501(c)(3) Exempt Organizations (“EOs”) are required to treat the cost of employer-paid qualified transportation and parking benefits as unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”) to the EO.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 16, 2019

There were no significant amendments to Form ADV this year (the SEC made a number of amendments in 2018 relating to separately managed accounts and standing letters of authority). These priorities generally follow the SEC’s 2018 examination priorities. 51:703(D)(5).

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Despite the successful opening of the succession with administration in 2006, the Succession did not file suit against Defendants, including adjacent landowners and various oil and gas companies, for unpaid royalties, fraud and violations of LUTPA until 2018. The Succession of Mayo Romero. The Succession of Mayo Romero. and Texaco, Inc.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 2, 2019

Ferguson at its 2018 program with the founders of the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation. Privacy Policy: By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2020

Last year, in another dispute over who should bear the cost of decommissioning offshore facilities, the Southern District of Texas held that a former sub-assignee of offshore operating rights was entitled to equitable subrogation from the record title owner and initial assignor. Sojitz Energy Venture, Inc. Union Oil Co. of California , 394 F.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 7, 2018

01-16-00579, 2018 WL 2437449 (Tex. Houston May 31, 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. The lawsuit sought $500,000 in liquidated damages.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

Those limits were last increased in 2018 to $137,659,500 by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. [12] A Regulatory Increase to the Limits of Liability for Oil Pollution and an Amendment Exempting Small Passenger Vessels from the Limitation of Liability Act Present New Challenges for Vessel Owners U.S.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 8, 2019

2018 WL 1516989 (La. 2018 WL 1516989 (La. 28, 2018) (affirming certification that reduced the requested class by more than two thirds). Privacy Policy: By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

While Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC (“BBP”) identified approximately 470 heirs to the title of the property, it began construction on the Defendant Landowners’ (“Defendants” or “Landowners”) property in June 2018 prior to receiving servitude agreements from each person having ownership interest. Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v. James, Louisiana.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

This third conclusion was important because the amount of the section 45Q tax credit was increased in 2018, meaning that the higher credit could be claimed by the investor and not the lower credit in place when the acid gas removal unit was placed in service.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 2, 2021

3d 546, writ denied , 2018-1655 (La. In its recent decision in Grace Ranch, L.L.C. BP America Production Company, et al. , 20-30224 (5th Cir. The Grace Ranch opinion arose out of the second lawsuit by Grace Ranch L.L.C. Grace Ranch), for alleged contamination of its property. 7/18/18), 252 So. 2/18/19), 264 So.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 2018, ExxonMobil agreed to buy 500 megawatts of wind and solar power from Ørsted in Texas and, at the beginning of this year, Ørsted’s 338-megawatt Sage Draw wind farm in West Texas came online pursuant to that agreement. As companies make this transition into renewable energy, one sector picking up speed is wind energy. homes for a year.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Earlier this month, Gulf Coast Sequestration (“GCS”), a limited liability company based in Lake Charles, announced its plans to build and operate a carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) project that will create a repository 10,000 feet underground for the permanent storage of more than 80 million tons of carbon. On the state level, Act No.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 3, 2019

That case is one of forty-two Coastal Zone Management Act (“CZMA”) cases that were removed to Federal court in May 2018. In granting Plaintiffs’ motion to remand, the Court first found that Defendants’ removal, which was predicated on allegations made in Plaintiffs’ April 30, 2018 expert report (“ Rozel Report”), was “simply too late.”

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Despite the successful opening of the succession with administration in 2006, the Succession did not file suit against Defendants, including adjacent landowners and various oil and gas companies, for unpaid royalties, fraud and violations of LUTPA until 2018. The Succession of Mayo Romero. . The Succession of Mayo Romero. . and Texaco, Inc.

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The Energy Law

MAY 10, 2019

2018-CC-0735 (La. In Simmons v. Cornerstone Investments, LLC, et al. 5/8/19), the Court held the collateral source rule inapplicable to medical expenses charged above the amount actually paid by a workers’ compensation insurer pursuant to the workers’ compensation medical fee schedule. In support, it relied on Bozeman v. State , 03-1016 (La.

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The Energy Law

JULY 18, 2018

In a unanimous opinion issued July 18, 2018 in Grace Ranch, LLC v. While oil and gas company-defendants—and several courts alike—have deemed the applicability of the subsequent purchaser doctrine to mineral leases a settled issue of law, plaintiff-landowners have continued to argue otherwise. BP America Production Company, et al. ,

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The 2019 version of the study analyzes a greater number of transactions at 151 M&A deals that were executed or closed during calendar year 2018 and the first quarter of 2019 with transaction values ranging from $17 million to $500 million. These new data points are flagged for the reader.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 4, 2019

2018-0517-KSJM (Del. Privacy Policy: By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. In Great Hill Equity Partners IV, LP v. SIG Growth Equity Fund I, LLLP , 80 A.3d 3d 155 (Del. RSI Holdco, LLC , C.A.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In 2018, Charles Steib (“Mr. On February 3, 2021, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court’s ruling that granted a summary judgment motion finding plaintiffs failed to submit specific evidence of asbestos exposure necessary to create a genuine issue of material fact. Lamorak Ins. 20-0424 (La. Plaintiffs appealed.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. This case is one of a number of cases brought by states, cities, and other municipalities against energy companies alleging that the companies contributed to climate change.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 5, 2018

On March 29, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its ruling in In re: Petition of Frescati Shipping Co., as Owner of the M/T ATHOS I , Nos. 16-3552, 16-3867 & 16-3868 (3d Cir. ATHOS I had its genesis in a 2004 vessel allision and oil spill on the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

While Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC (“BBP”) identified approximately 470 heirs to the title of the property, it began construction on the Defendant Landowners’ (“Defendants” or “Landowners”) property in June 2018 prior to receiving servitude agreements from each person having ownership interest. Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v. James, Louisiana.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 2, 2020

In May 2018, oil and gas industry defendants removed a docket of 42 cases alleging violations of Louisiana’s coastal zone management laws to federal court in the Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana (“CZM cases”). 1442) and federal question jurisdiction (28 U.S.C. The district court, however, rejected defendants’ substantive arguments.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 2, 2021

3d 546, writ denied , 2018-1655 (La. In its recent decision in Grace Ranch, L.L.C. BP America Production Company, et al. , 20-30224 (5th Cir. The Grace Ranch opinion arose out of the second lawsuit by Grace Ranch L.L.C. Grace Ranch), for alleged contamination of its property. 7/18/18), 252 So. 2/18/19), 264 So.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 16, 2019

163 (Fall 2018/Winter 2019), is Uniform Commercial Code Opinions in Real Estate Finance Transactions (the “UCC Opinion Report”). A Lender in a real estate financing transaction often requires borrower’s counsel to opine on certain aspects of the transaction as a condition to the closing. & Est. L. & Est. L.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 2018, ExxonMobil agreed to buy 500 megawatts of wind and solar power from Ørsted in Texas and, at the beginning of this year, Ørsted’s 338-megawatt Sage Draw wind farm in West Texas came online pursuant to that agreement. As companies make this transition into renewable energy, one sector picking up speed is wind energy. homes for a year.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 27, 2020

Today, countries worldwide are responding to a pandemic of respiratory disease spreading from person-to-person caused by a novel coronavirus. The disease has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”). Does this pandemic and resultant disruption constitute a force majeure event under Louisiana and Texas law?

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The Energy Law

JUNE 28, 2018

A mortgagee with a security interest in a mineral lease can’t be held liable for breaches of the lease In an opinion released June 27, 2018, the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed the finding that Wells Fargo was liable with the mineral lessees for the failure to release the mineral lease under Mineral Code articles 206 and 207.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Earlier this month, Gulf Coast Sequestration (“GCS”), a limited liability company based in Lake Charles, announced its plans to build and operate a carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) project that will create a repository 10,000 feet underground for the permanent storage of more than 80 million tons of carbon. tons of CO?

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