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Elemental Energies appoints Decommissioning head

Offshore Energies UK

It has an extensive record managing large-scale platform plugging and abandonment (P&A) and subsea well decommissioning. Mr Provan brings 18 years of hands-on expertise in drilling, subsea engineering, construction and decommissioning. It has also formed a joint venture with Archer for global P&A.

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Valor | Energy Connection – Feb. 24, 2025

Valor

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 24, 2025 appeared first on Oil and Gas Outsourcing and Mineral Management. GW capacity.

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DOI Promulgates a New Final Rule for Increased Safety Measures on the OCS

The Energy Law

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. 50856, 50857 (Aug.

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Louisiana Third Circuit Affirms that LDNR Can Only Recover Emergency Response Costs Under La. R.S. 30:93(A)(4) from the Operator of Record and its Working Interest Owners

The Energy Law

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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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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Texas Supreme Court Again Addresses Royalty Class Actions

The Energy Law

The Court also addressed the nature of the implied duties in oil and gas leases, whether the ambiguity of the underlying agreement precludes class treatment, and the extent to which class representatives may abandon individualized claims in order to preserve class treatment for common claims.

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COVID-19 PIVOT: Virtual Well On Paper Workshops

Drillers

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.