Oil & Gas 360º

MARCH 10, 2025

Senegals Petrosen and Mauritanias SMH worked alongside bp and Kosmos Energy to develop the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project situated on the maritime border of the two countries and producing first LNG in January 2025. mtpa Coral South FLNG project has been operating since 2022 while ExxonMobil plans to make FID on Rovuma LNG in 2026.

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Oil & Gas Magazine

MARCH 10, 2025

Con base en su Memorando de Entendimiento (MoU) de 2022, que tena como objetivo avanzar en la descarbonizacin de la cadena de suministro de gas natural, Baker Hughes y Woodside han firmado un Acuerdo de Desarrollo Tecnolgico (TDA) para desarrollar las herramientas a pequea escala.

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The Energy Law

JULY 5, 2022

On June 23, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published a draft guidance on mitigating potential impacts of offshore wind development on commercial and recreational fishing. BOEM is inviting public review and comment on the draft guidance through August 22, 2022.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 3, 2022

In response to various pressures on the energy industry to reduce the environmental impact associated with excess carbon dioxide emissions, many energy companies are investigating carbon capture and sequestration projects as a means of reducing their carbon emissions.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 6, 2023

The Safer Seas Act was passed and enacted into law in December 2022 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. 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. Click here to access our checklist.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2023

built offshore wind substation departed from a Texas fabrication facility where Danish multinational energy company, Ørsted, and domestic energy provider, Eversource, partnered to build the revolutionary vessel. On April 14, 2022, in the wake of the Garamendi Amendment, the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. the largest U.S.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Baker Hughes a G E Co., 21-30523, 2022 WL 9862487 (5th Cir. 17, 2022) (hereinafter “ D & J Invs. 17, 2022) (hereinafter “ D & J Invs. In D & J Invs. of Cenla, L.L.C. It further concluded that Louisiana law does not create a cause of action against LDEQ for contamination caused by private industry.”.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The appeal concerned the three EISs prepared by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) prior to Lease Sales 250 and 251. It also acknowledged that a redo of the lease sales would be tainted by the prior publication of the lessee’s valuation of the leases.

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The Energy Law

MAY 9, 2022

Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (emissions from purchased electricity and other forms of energy) are relatively straightforward in terms of defining what must be disclosed and the familiar methods by which to collect the relevant data. 2] SEC Press Release, Statement from SEC Chair Gary Gensler, [link]. [3] 3] Id. ( [link] ). [4]

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

maritime law experienced two significant changes on December 23, 2022—one pertaining to liability for oil pollution, the other concerning small passenger vessels. Those limits were last increased in 2018 to $137,659,500 by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. [12] 4] OPA liability is capped, however, subject to certain exceptions. [5]

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

A petition filed on July 19 by Sierra Club and Healthy Gulf seeks review of a “dredge and fill” permit granted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Driftwood LNG – a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction near Lake Charles. 717r(d)(1)). [2]. 717r(d)(1)). [2].

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After additional rounds of feedback from the Task Force and the public, some actions may be added, deleted, or revised prior to the release of the draft Climate Action Plan later this year and the Final Report in February 2022. The Task Force released a first draft of the report in the spring of 2021. Noteworthy actions include: ACTION 5.6

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

In September 2022, the district court vacated the facility’s air permits finding, among other reasons, that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) had not done a proper analysis under the Louisiana Public Trust Doctrine. Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality , 2023-CA-0578. The First Circuit disagreed.

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The Energy Law

JULY 6, 2023

The District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana preliminarily enjoined the enforcement of the Final Rule in Louisiana inshore waters until February 1, 2022, finding the state could sue in its quasi-sovereign capacity with its interest in and ownership of marine resources. This requirement was to go into effect on August 1, 2021.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 28, 2022

Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La. However, pilot programs can be available to allow the commencement of an enhanced recovery project prior to creation of the unit. 30:1101-1111).

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The Livingston Parish proposed ordinance is scheduled for a public hearing at an upcoming parish council meeting on September 8, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. [1] 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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Energy Transfer

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As a result of the increased use of natural gas to generate electricity, the air we breathe is cleaner today than it has been since the 1990s , and energy costs for the average U.S. Also of note are advancements U.S. household have decreased by more than 10 percent over the last decade. enough to power 155,844,000 homes annually.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 4, 2023

While 30:10 was amended during the 2022 legislative session, the amendment preserved the limited obligation of remitting the royalty and overriding royalty burdens to the nonparticipating owner for the benefit of the royalty and overriding royalty owners. Perhaps time will tell. The 2023 Regular Session begins on April 10th.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

On Friday, January 7, 2022, the Louisiana Supreme Court unanimously upheld a COVID-19 vaccine mandate program that the state’s largest private healthcare system implemented for its employees. Hayes, et al. University Health Shreveport , 21-01601 (La. It also held that the informed consent statute codified at La.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2022

Aethon Energy Operating, L.L.C. , 11, 2022), provides further guidance on what must be contained in correspondence from parties making demand on an operator under La. 30:9(B) in which Aethon Energy Operating, L.L.C. Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:103.1 Kelly Land Company, L.L.C. 4th 369 (5th Cir. In the suit, the plaintiff, B.A.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2022

Today, on March 31, 2022, the Western District of Louisiana reversed that ruling and applied the same rationale to a pending motion for partial dismissal in one of the putative class actions, Self v. 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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

On August 30, 2022, the Texas Railroad Commission approved proposed regulations relating to Class VI wells utilized for injecting and sequestering carbon dioxide in geologic formations. The Blog/Web Site should not be used as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state regarding a particular matter.

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Vorys Energy

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio once again addressed the level of diligence a surface owner must exercise in attempting to identify and locate holders of a severed mineral interest under the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act. E), they did not search the public records of the county where the holder was said to have resided.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Coast Guard published Policy Letter 23-05 which provides the first actual guidance for vessel owners and operators on the expectations for the surveillance equipment that they are required to install and maintain under the Safer Seas Act, which became law in December 2022 as part of the James M. 1331(a))). .

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Valero Refining Meraux, LLC , 2022-00469 (La. On January 27, 2023, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a ruling involving claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress (“NIED”) absent physical damage. In Spencer v. 1/27/23), — So.

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Vorys Energy

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

On February 1, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s decision in Zehentbauer Family Land, LP, et al. TotalEnergies E&P USA, Inc, et al. Moreover, the court observed that, as a consequence, “Plaintiffs’ royalties are based on those gross proceeds paid to the Lessee.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) is slated to make further revisions to its decommissioning regulations, following other decommissioning amendments made last year as previously reported on The Energy Law Blog. However, on July 7, 2022, in Petro Ventures, Inc. 250.1403; NTL No. 2023-N02 (March 24, 2023).

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 9, 2021

68686, and goes through January 3, 2022. 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. The released oil impacted Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, including the wildlife refuge on Matagorda Island.

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Exprodat

MARCH 3, 2025

The North Sea Transition Authority are the UKs oil, gas and carbon storage regulator, tasked with driving the energy transition in the North Sea. As part of this, the Energy Act 2016 requires each UKCS operator to appoint a named Information and Samples Coordinator (ISC), who is responsible for reporting petroleum-related information to NSTA.

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Exprodat

MARCH 3, 2025

The North Sea Transition Authority are the UKs oil, gas and carbon storage regulator, tasked with driving the energy transition in the North Sea. As part of this, the Energy Act 2016 requires each UKCS operator to appoint a named Information and Samples Coordinator (ISC), who is responsible for reporting petroleum-related information to NSTA.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On December 16, 2022, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023 which contains a material expansion of the United States Maritime Administration’s Capital Construction Fund Program. The Capital Construction Fund (“CCF”) program is designed to encourage owners of U.S. flagged vessels by offering tax incentives to do so.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 14, 2021

As discussed in a previous Energy Law Blog post , the CTA was adopted as part of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and requires that certain business entities disclose to FinCEN the identities of their beneficial owners and applicants. The ANPRM seeks to better develop these definitions for the final regulations.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 5, 2024

On December 29, 2023, the USCG issued Maritime Safety Information Bulletin (MSIB) 13-2023, Change 1 , an updated version of MSIB 13-23, that now includes a Frequently Asked Questions section addressing compliance with the Safer Seas Act that was passed in December of 2022. Why is there no compliance deadline mentioned in Policy Letter 23-04?

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Reporting will not begin until the Treasury adopts regulations, which the Act mandates must be done by January 1, 2022. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) the identities of their beneficial owners and applicants. Who is a beneficial owner or applicant?

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The Energy Law

APRIL 14, 2021

As discussed in a previous Energy Law Blog post , the CTA was adopted as part of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and requires that certain business entities disclose to FinCEN the identities of their beneficial owners and applicants. The ANPRM seeks to better develop these definitions for the final regulations.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The two bureaus stated their focus for fiscal year (FY) 2022 would be on the development of regulations to address the IIJA requirement; accordingly, both BOEM and BSEE have budgeted funds for FY 2023 to develop such a framework. In the meantime, more questions than answers remain regarding the regulatory framework for offshore CCS.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Reporting will not begin until the Treasury adopts regulations, which the Act mandates must be done by January 1, 2022. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) the identities of their beneficial owners and applicants. Who is a beneficial owner or applicant?

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