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Operators May Earn and Sell Carbon Credits for the P&A of Inactive, Shut-in, or Temporarily Abandoned Wells

The Energy Law Blog

Operators may now have the potential to sell carbon credits in exchange for the P&A of inactive, shut-in, or temporarily abandoned wells. The EPA estimates that there are over 3 million known abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells (AOOG wells) in the United States. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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Federal Agency Recommends Updated Regulations for Pipeline Monitoring, Decommissioning, and Abandonment

The Energy Law Blog

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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Federal Agency Recommends Updated Regulations for Pipeline Monitoring, Decommissioning, and Abandonment

The Energy Law Blog

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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Solar Leasing in Louisiana: Act 301 and Decommissioning Requirements

The Energy Law Blog

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. Communications include firm news, insights, and events. However, lawmakers are acting now to ensure proper decommissioning years down the road.

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Solar Leasing in Louisiana: Act 301 and Decommissioning Requirements

The Energy Law Blog

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. Communications include firm news, insights, and events. However, lawmakers are acting now to ensure proper decommissioning years down the road.

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New Amendment to Louisiana’s Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act Creates Expropriation Rights to Prohibit Drilling through Carbon Capture Storage Reservoirs in Caldwell Parish

The Energy Law Blog

Communications include firm news, insights, and events. As currently written, the Act allows the project operator to expropriate the rights “necessary or useful” in constructing and operating the storage facility. [1] To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database.

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BEYOND VIDEO-CONFERENCING and TECHNICAL FACILITATION SERVICE

Drillers

x has stood for Drilling, Logging, Supplying and Abandonment so far!). The feedback from all attendees after the first events has been unanimously positive. After extensive testing of various communication and collaboration tools, rp have now delivered several truly interactive virtual xWOPS for clients in Norway and the UK. (x

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