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Subsea Plugging & Abandonment: Light Well Intervention Vessel Overview

Drillers

There is a significant focus on plug and abandonment decommissioning in today’s workscopes. I thought it would be pertinent to write something on the plug and abandonment (P&A) of subsea assets utilizing a Light Well Intervention Vessel (LWIV). Category D: Production Drilling, with focus on completion and intervention needs.

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Louisiana Operators Are Not Responsible For Making Non-Participants’ Royalty Payments Before Payout

The Energy Law

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. 2007 WL 1651090 (La.

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Thinking About Improving Your Louisiana Facility? Follow These Steps or Risk Unlimited Lien Liability Under Louisiana’s Private Works Act

The Energy Law

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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Natural Gas Making an Impact Through Statewide Projects

Marcellus Shale Coalition

From funding flood mitigation projects, rehabbing our recreational trails, plugging abandoned wells and restoring watersheds, these are projects that will enhance our community and economy while improving the quality of life for Pennsylvanians. What Theyre Saying Senator Anthony H. Struzzi said.

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FIFTH CIRCUIT BEGINS TO CLEAN UP ITS JURISPRUDENCE ON HOW TO DETERMINE WHETHER A CONTRACT IS (OR IS NOT) MARITIME

The Energy Law

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? Recently, the court applied Doiron in the context of a contract to plug and abandon a series of offshore wells in Crescent Energy Services, L.L.C., Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. [3]

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Advancement of CCS in Louisiana

The Energy Law

Once completed, the GCS facility is expected to be the largest CCS project in the United States and one of the largest in the world, according to its press release. The next step for GCS will be to obtain a Class VI Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) permit from the U.S.

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COVID-19 PIVOT: Virtual Well On Paper Workshops

Drillers

We thrive in environments that we completely understand and are familiar with. 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? Change can happen so slowly that we only see it in hindsight and call it evolution.