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EIA Lastest News – Product Prices & Pipeline News

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If US LNG consumption grows 6% annually, consumption will total 46 Bcm/y by 2020.) Furthermore, the company announced a strained operating condition warning, which was cancelled on September 3. – Transco Gas Pipeline Corporation released a notice on September 4 regarding firm backhaul transportation service for winter 2007-2008.

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BSEE’s Updated Decommissioning Rules Address RUEs and Formalize Predecessor Enforcement Practices

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What started in 2020 as a proposed joint rulemaking between the DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) was recently finalized as a stand-alone BSEE rule addressing decommissioning. 250.1700, et seq. BSEE added a new paragraph (c) to 30 C.F.R.

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2023 Begins With Increased (or Unlimited) Liability for Vessel Owners

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3] When the source of the discharge is a vessel, the “responsible party” is the owner, operator, or demise charterer of that vessel. [4] 138.230 (2020). [9] First, the Coast Guard announced [1] increases to the liability limits in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”). [2] 6] The last CPI adjustment occurred in 2019. 78860 (Dec.

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Louisiana Third Circuit Decision Imposes Damages for Due Process Violation on Private Company

The Energy Law

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. Martin Parish and were needed for construction of the pipeline. Acres, More or Less, Located in St. Martin Parish, et al. [1]

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Louisiana Third Circuit Decision Imposes Damages for Due Process Violation on Private Company

The Energy Law

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. Martin Parish and were needed for construction of the pipeline. Acres, More or Less, Located in St. Martin Parish, et al. [1]

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Louisiana First Circuit Reaffirms Prescription and Subsequent Purchaser Principles

The Energy Law

Chevron Pipelines Company , et al., 2020-0622 (La. for alleged damage to its property arising out of Chevron’s and its predecessor’s oil and gas operations in the Sardine Point Field from 1959 through 1991. In Lexington Land Development, L.L.C. 5/25/21), 2021 WL 2102932, —So. In this case, Lexington Land sued Chevron U.S.A.,

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U.S. Fifth Circuit Clarifies “Substantial Nexus” Test for LHWCA

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After the incident, two of the offshore platforms connected by pipeline to the platform where the work was performed had to be shut down. 1333(b), the LHWCA applies where (1) an employee’s injury “result[s] from” OCS extractive operations, and (2) his employer is an “employer” under OCSLA. In Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v.