The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 18, 2016

This clarification comes after a number of leaks in 2014 and 2015 from pipelines that were believed to be “abandoned.” In two incidents, the current owners or operators of the pipelines had purchased the pipelines from previous owners or operators with the understanding that the pipelines had been properly abandoned before purchase.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2007

By Joe Giarrusso: In Louisiana, a lawsuit is generally deemed abandoned when the parties fail to take any step in its prosecution for three years. This rule is operative without any formal order.

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McKinsey

AUGUST 6, 2019

Our research shows that many large mergers and acquisitions are abandoned before closing because of value-creation, regulatory, and political issues. Here’s how to improve the odds of success.

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Vorys Energy

JUNE 10, 2024

Miller , 2024-Ohio-2133, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals held that the appellant, Cardinal Minerals, a mineral buyer, lacked standing to bring a lawsuit contesting the validity of an abandonment under the Dormant Mineral Act (DMA).

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

The Report concluded that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) lacks a robust oversight process (1) for ensuring the integrity of active offshore oil and gas pipelines and (2) to address the environmental risks posed by decommissioning and abandoning pipelines on the seafloor.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This didn’t start out as a three part series. Finding Rare Earth and other critical elements is serious. We need these constituents for modern devices required to mitigate climate change, like electric vehicles (EVs) and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million in federal infrastructure money to clean up abandoned oil wells as part of an initial $1.15 Estimates vary about the number of abandoned wells in the state. New Mexico will receive $43.7 billion in funding for the nationwide effort to remove these sources of air and groundwater pollution.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The federal government is sending Louisiana 111-million dollars to plug and restore abandoned oil and gas wells. The state Department of Natural Resources estimates there are 46-hundred abandoned wells in Louisiana and cleanup is likely to cost 400-million dollars. Jeff Palermo, Louisiana Radio Network

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

UK Firm Pioneers Offshore CCS & Hydrogen Storage with Innovative Well Technology Key Points: A UK firm introduces a groundbreaking well re-entry and re-abandonment tool for offshore CCS and hydrogen storage. This tool enables the re-utilization of existing offshore wells for carbon capture and hydrogen storage projects.

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Oilfield Technology

MARCH 11, 2025

Latest analysis from Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood), the specialist energy market research and consultancy firm, reveals the extent of financial and logistical hurdles for North Sea decommissioning.

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Energy Central

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar renewable energy is undergoing rapid advancements from thin-film solar to solar windows, turning brownfield sites into brightfields, converting abandoned golf courses into solar farms, microwaving solar power from space, and more.

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Energy Central

JULY 29, 2024

Have we been too hasty in abandoning traditional energy sources for renewables and green energy? Renewable Rush: Speed Blinding Stability (Part 10 of article series: Energy and Technological Progress: Bridging the Gap.) As the world hurtles towards a low-carbon future, it is a need for critical examination of our transition strategy.

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Energy Central

JULY 30, 2024

Although I will not abandon the latter posts in the immediate future, with this paper, I am adding a periodic catchall. On a few of my categories of posts, I post a periodic paper with a few major catchall subjects that are consistent from post to post. With EVs I have had a different subject for each post. There are two reasons for this:

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

As the number of solar projects continues to grow in Louisiana, a chief concern among Louisiana taxpayers is ensuring that these projects are properly decommissioning upon their abandonment. Solar development is largely in its infancy in Louisiana, with only a handful of projects having been constructed to date.

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Energy Central

MARCH 1, 2023

” WASHINGTON POST Most read… China predicts new arms race Japan abandons its old strategy of pacifism Japan has announced a. Quote of the day… “The rest of the world’s rajahs are saying coal must stop,” said Pradhan. “But we are the rajah of our own country.”

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McKinsey

MAY 8, 2017

Being told to abandon old ways of thinking and working and embrace without delay a new, and seemingly riskier, digital culture can be unnerving for insurance companies. But there are certain actions insurers can take to kick-start change while minimizing the risks—and they do not have to alter everything at the same pace.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When a January cold snap kept highs across Colorado in the teens, Coloradans were grateful for natural gas to keep their homes and businesses warm and well lit. Now the bills for that energy are coming due and Colorado Gov.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A long-abandoned well sits off the shore of the Louisiana coast About a third of these wells are. By Adam Peltz Louisiana has a long history of oil and gas development, with 50,000 wells distributed across the state and along the coast.

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Energy Central

MARCH 24, 2022

And it is even made harder by abandoning the use of nuclear power in the energy mix. It’s a big ask to tell countries with very little access to electricity to accept the same level of responsibility as electricity-rich nations striving to achieve the net-zero emissions target that the United Nations has set for the mid-century.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Pennsylvania is set to get an influx of federal infrastructure money to plug abandoned oil and gas wells. Pennsylvania has a lot of orphan and abandoned wells, due to its long history with the oil and gas industry. Pennsylvania has a lot of orphan and abandoned wells, due to its long history with the oil and gas industry.

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Offshore Energies UK

MARCH 5, 2025

It has an extensive record managing large-scale platform plugging and abandonment (P&A) and subsea well decommissioning. Elemental Energies has specialist teams working globally in subsurface, wells and facilities operations. It has also formed a joint venture with Archer for global P&A.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Only 31 percent support going all electric and abandoning their gas stoves, furnaces, and other appliances. A recent poll from Yale’s Program on Climate Change Communications shows yet again that Americans want to continue cooking with gas. Their headline.

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Energy Central

JULY 3, 2022

And the consequence has been the search for sources that had already been abandoned or greatly reduced, and that are much more emitting. Victim of the war in Ukraine: emissions The Russian invasion triggered a global setback also on the issue of reducing emissions. Europe decided to boycott Russian gas.

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Vorys Energy

MARCH 24, 2022

However, in Fonzi , while the surface owners conducted a search of the public records of the county where the property was located prior to serving notices of abandonment by publication under R.C. 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 Blog

JANUARY 2, 2013

Specifically, the new final rule adds a section to 30 CFR 250, subpart Q regarding submission of decommissioning applications and reports when a blowout preventer (“BOP”) is used for abandonment operations, 250.1704(g)(1)(ii). 50856, 50882 (Aug. 50856, 50882 (Aug. 50856, 50883 (Aug.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

As the number of solar projects continues to grow in Louisiana, a chief concern among Louisiana taxpayers is ensuring that these projects are properly decommissioning upon their abandonment. Solar development is largely in its infancy in Louisiana, with only a handful of projects having been constructed to date.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2007

6/8/07), the operator completed a well that was plugged and abandoned without reaching payout. By Dana Douglas The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal recently held that an operator is not responsible for payment of a non-operator’s royalties and overriding royalties before payout. In Gulf Explorer, LLC v. Clayton WIlliams Energy Inc.

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Valor

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Read more BP to abandon green energy target and ramp up oil Summary : BP will abandon its plan to expand renewable energy generation 20-fold by 2030, scrapping its target of reaching 50 gigawatts (GW) and maintaining its current 8.2 Meanwhile, global supply concerns persist as the U.S. GW capacity.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2017

According to Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority, the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, will be phased out and abandoned by the end of 2021. What should lenders and borrowers do to prepare for the end of LIBOR? Lenders and borrowers should monitor the development of alternative benchmark interest rates.

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SmartBrief

MARCH 3, 2025

These sessions reinforce foundational skills without abandoning the core grade-level curriculum. This intervention is about strategically meeting gaps based on data, ensuring it aligns with what students are learning in the core curriculum. This block allows teachers to focus on prerequisites crucial for understanding grade-level content.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

As currently written, the Act allows the project operator to expropriate the rights “necessary or useful” in constructing and operating the storage facility. [1] The amendment (Act 163 of 2022) was signed by Governor Edwards on May 26, 2022 and will become effective on August 1 st of this year.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Orphaned wells are oil or natural gas wells that have been abandoned by companies for one reason or another. A veteran of the oil industry, Curtis Shuck is on a new path these days: cleaning up the mess left behind by orphaned wells.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 1, 2017

If a Notice of Contract has not been filed, subcontractors and suppliers have a sixty-day period to file a lien, which begins running on the date of substantial completion, the owner’s abandonment of the work, or the filing of a Notice of Termination.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2007

In the Supreme Court of Texas) Emerald, a subsequent lessee of Exxon, sued Exxon for wrongful conduct “in the development and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the Mary Ellen O’Connor Field.” The Court will also hear arguments on the applicability of the discovery rule and fraudulent concealment to claims by oil and gas lessors.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

Sandhill never managed to stop the leak, and it abandoned the well in August 2019. The Lyon Well was leaking in 2018, which prompted the LDNR to task the current operator (Sandhill Production, Inc.) with stopping the leak. The LDNR declared an emergency over the Lyon Well leak and spent money from the Fund on the emergency response.

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Drillers

APRIL 30, 2020

Temporary oil glut aside, if we were to abandon wells and shut them in, stop producing once most of the CapEx has been committed, where would we be in five to ten years? The oil and gas sector is as critical as any other primary industry. It provides for our basic human needs at an affordable price.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Specifically, the letter addressed the following circumstances: Plugging Requirements : Regulations require any well that has been identified by the operator as inactive with no future utility to be placed on a schedule of abandonment or plugged within 90 days.

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