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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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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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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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U.S. Fifth Circuit Affirms $20 Million Judgment Against Barge Owner as Responsible Party Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990

The Energy Law

At the time of the collision, the MEL OLIVER, which was pushing ACL’s barge DM-932 fully laden with oil, was operating without a captain who had effectively abandoned the vessel several days earlier. ACL appealed, arguing two things: (1) it was entitled to a complete defense to OPA ’90 liability under 33 U.S.C. 2703(a) 33 U.S.C.

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Louisiana Second Circuit Provides Guidance as to Good Faith Required When Conducting Operations Necessary to Interrupt Prescription of Mineral Servitude

The Energy Law

The well was a dry hole, however, and was therefore plugged and abandoned on April 21, 2006. He pointed to owners having a cement truck waiting to fill the well as soon as drilling was completed as objective evidence of such an intent. A well was spud on March 28, 2006.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law

A prior lessee could be held liable for decommissioning a hurricane-toppled platform years after its exit and completion of all lease decommissioning obligations. Proposed Regulations – The proposed regulations would make several changes with respect to these abandonment accounts.