The Energy Law

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In August 2018, dry natural gas production from the Haynesville shale averaged 6.774 billion cubic feet per day, which is the highest daily Haynesville production average since September 2012 when production averaged 6.962 billion cubic feet per day. El Paso E & P Co. , El Paso E & P Co. , August 2018 was not an anomaly.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 2, 2019

On Friday, March 29, 2019, the City of New Orleans filed a lawsuit in Civil District Court against eleven oil and gas companies seeking damages for alleged harm to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. LMOGA vehemently disagrees with the decision to outsource responsibility for enforcing state and local permitting laws to private lawyers.”

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The Energy Law

JULY 15, 2021

1] According to Senator Bret Allain (R-Franklin), author of Act 301, the purpose of this legislation is to avoid a similar issue Louisiana citizens are far more familiar with—the abandonment of orphaned oil and gas wells. [2] However, lawmakers are acting now to ensure proper decommissioning years down the road.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co., Randle , affirming in part and reversing in part the lower court’s ruling. 19-0459, 2021 WL 936175 (Tex. For almost a decade, the original lessee to the agreements never subtracted post-production costs from the royalty owners’ royalty payments. Texas Crude Energy LLC , 573 S.W.3d 3d 198, 211 (Tex.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co., Randle , affirming in part and reversing in part the lower court’s ruling. 19-0459, 2021 WL 936175 (Tex. For almost a decade, the original lessee to the agreements never subtracted post-production costs from the royalty owners’ royalty payments. Texas Crude Energy LLC , 573 S.W.3d 3d 198, 211 (Tex.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 17, 2019

In a victory for the oil and gas industry, the Third Circuit rendered a decision rejecting attempts by the Louisiana Department of Revenue to impose severance taxes on crude oil production based on index pricing. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2022

For nearly three years, unit operators in Louisiana have waited to see whether the Western District of Louisiana would change course or double down on its March 2019 decision in Johnson v. Chesapeake. BPX Operating Co., The district court recognized this was a res nova issue for which there was no authority directly on point.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 4, 2019

On March 29, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had finalized a voluntary disclosure program for new owners of upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production facilities. New owners who acquired facilities in the twelve months before EPA finalized this program are also eligible.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

6] The last CPI adjustment occurred in 2019. On September 2, 2019, a fire broke out aboard the dive boat CONCEPTION while it was anchored off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California. First, the Coast Guard announced [1] increases to the liability limits in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”). [2]

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co., Randle , affirming in part and reversing in part the lower court’s ruling. 19-0459, 2021 WL 936175 (Tex. Factual and Procedural Background. For almost a decade, the original lessee to the agreements never subtracted post-production costs from the royalty owners’ royalty payments. 3d 198, 211 (Tex.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2020

BlueStone primes the Court to resolve a Texas appellate court split regarding whether a lease provision requiring royalties to be paid based on “gross” profits or value received from the sale of oil and gas production nullifies an “at the well” valuation point elsewhere in a lease. In 2019, the Court heard Burlington Res. 2d at 120-21.

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Coolfire Core

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The manufacturing, oil & gas, and transportation industries offer prime examples of successful IT/OT convergence. Oil and Gas Natural resource industries like oil & gas are becoming increasingly reliant on digital networks to oversee processing and distribution. from 2019 to 2025. billion by 2025, a CAGR of 21.6%

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The Energy Law

JUNE 3, 2019

On May 28, 2019, United States District Judge Martin Feldman issued a sixty-four page Order and Reasons which granted motions to remand filed by Plaquemines Parish and the State of Louisiana in The Parish of Plaquemines v. Riverwood Production Co., The cases were removed to Federal court by Defendants pursuant to 28 U.S.C.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 12, 2022

Sandhill never managed to stop the leak, and it abandoned the well in August 2019. In 1993, the State of Louisiana enacted the Oilfield Site Restoration Law (“OSRL”) with the goal of cleaning up and closing orphaned oilfield sites through the use of the Oilfield Site Restoration Fund (the “Fund”). 30:80 et seq. who last operated the property.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 15, 2020

Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies: Investor Fraud Lawsuits: The first category of climate change litigation alleges that oil and gas companies defrauded investors by falsely stating that the company had fully considered the risks of climate change regulation and had factored those risks into its business operations.

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The Energy Law

JULY 15, 2021

1] According to Senator Bret Allain (R-Franklin), author of Act 301, the purpose of this legislation is to avoid a similar issue Louisiana citizens are far more familiar with—the abandonment of orphaned oil and gas wells. [2] However, lawmakers are acting now to ensure proper decommissioning years down the road.

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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”). 18-5217, 2019 WL 2271118 (E.D. May 28, 2019). Auster Oil & Gas Incorporated, et al. (“ Auster ”), No.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 26, 2019

On March 21, 2019, the U.S. 1] The dispute in Johnson involved a group of unleased mineral owners (“UMOs”) who filed suit against a unit operator for deducting a litany of post-production costs against their share of production proceeds from an oil and gas unit in the Haynesville Shale. [2] Chesapeake Louisiana, LP. [1]

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Supreme Court’s rare dismissal of a previously granted cert petition means that the justices have declined to reconsider the Fifth Circuit’s decision refusing to send the underlying dispute to arbitration. This is now the second time this case has been before the Supreme Court on issues of arbitrability.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2020

2003) (“the regulations govern the parties’ joint and several liabilities vis-à-vis the Government not amongst themselves”) and Total E&P USA, Inc. Marubeni Oil & Gas (USA), Inc. , Sojitz Energy Venture, Inc. Union Oil Co. of California , 394 F. 3d 687 (S.D. UNOCAL also reserved a 3% overriding royalty. Parker Drilling Co. ,

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers. 3d 726 (S.D.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 27, 2020

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

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers. 3d 726 (S.D.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

On July 15, 2020, The Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion awarding damages for a violation of due process rights against a private pipeline company. Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v. Acres, More or Less, Located in St. Martin Parish, et al. [1] James, Louisiana. One landowner had an interest of.0000994 0000994 and the other two owned an.0005803

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The Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana granted Plaintiff States’ request for an injunction to block the Biden Administration’s pause on new federal oil and gas lease sales (“Lease Pause”). On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Louisiana v. 2:21-cv-00778-TAD-KK, 2021 WL 2154963 (W.D. June 15, 2021). at 26-27.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana granted Plaintiff States’ request for an injunction to block the Biden Administration’s pause on new federal oil and gas lease sales (“Lease Pause”). On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Louisiana v. 2:21-cv-00778-TAD-KK, 2021 WL 2154963 (W.D. June 15, 2021). at 26-27.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana granted Plaintiff States’ request for an injunction to block the Biden Administration’s pause on new federal oil and gas lease sales (“Lease Pause”). On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Louisiana v. 2:21-cv-00778-TAD-KK, 2021 WL 2154963 (W.D. June 15, 2021). at 26-27.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 2, 2019

On March 29, 2019, Alaska Federal District Court Judge Sharon Gleason granted summary judgment in favor of plaintiff environmental groups in League of Conservation Voters v. Trump , 3:17-00101. President Trump issued an Executive Order in 2017 which revoked the Obama withdrawals. Instead, such revocation remains vested with Congress.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

s March 2019 permit to construct and operate cross-border pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canada During his first hours in the Oval Office, President Biden issued Executive Order 13990, entitled “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” Canada border in Montana. Gulf Coast.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But the oil and gas industry stands to be impacted regardless of the election outcome in November, and those impacts will have wide-reaching effects on the U.S. But the oil and gas industry stands to be impacted regardless of the election outcome in November, and those impacts will have wide-reaching effects on the U.S.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But the oil and gas industry stands to be impacted regardless of the election outcome in November, and those impacts will have wide-reaching effects on the U.S. But the oil and gas industry stands to be impacted regardless of the election outcome in November, and those impacts will have wide-reaching effects on the U.S.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But the oil and gas industry stands to be impacted regardless of the election outcome in November, and those impacts will have wide-reaching effects on the U.S. But the oil and gas industry stands to be impacted regardless of the election outcome in November, and those impacts will have wide-reaching effects on the U.S.

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