Decarbonizing Marine Transportation
Energy Central
MAY 16, 2024
I’ve visited this topic before, but a recent excellent article in IEEE Spectrum induced your author to take another dive into the sustainable ocean. A modern Marine Transportation.
Why not hydrogen for distance shipping and transport?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Much to agree with in this article on why not hydrogen for distance shipping and transport We do see a role for hydrogen in processes needing the molecules for a chemical reaction (ammonia, parts of steel production.)
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Automation in logistics: Big opportunity, bigger uncertainty
McKinsey
APRIL 24, 2019
But as this second article in our series on disruption explains, things are not so simple. As e-commerce volumes soar, many logistics and parcel companies hope that automation is the answer.
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Working Hours and Fatigue: Meeting the Needs of American Workers and Employers
NIOSH Science: Oil & Gas
APRIL 12, 2023
The issue’s articles give insight into the challenges of managing fatigue across industries and job tasks. The articles identify knowledge gaps and needs The issue explores factors that may increase work-related fatigue and actions to reduce work-related injuries and illnesses. [1]
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Biofuels Reboot
Energy Central
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
As I wrote a recent post, “Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization,” I discovered that U.S. A few days later I was reading my latest issue of Scientific American, and came across an excellent article on these.
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A Summary of Professor Jim Rossi’s Lecture on the “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation”
The Energy Law
APRIL 6, 2017
At the Fourth Annual Liskow & Lewis Energy Law Lecture, Professor Jim Rossi of Vanderbilt Law delivered a presentation entitled “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation.” Despite these differences, both means of transportation face legal hurdles that require consideration of federalism principles.
What archaic law is hindering our migration to clean energy?
Energy Central
JANUARY 30, 2023
I didn’t before I came across several articles on its impact to energy supply and offshore wind. The law requires any goods transported between U.S. Ever heard of the Jones Act? The Jones Acts is a century old law that was designed to protect the maritime industry. The key words in that description are century old.
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New hydride-conducting electrolytes for improved hydrogen-based energy technology
Energy Central
JANUARY 9, 2024
This article discusses an advance that readers should be aware of. To the extent that this work can be scaled up, it can reduce the need for hydrolyzers and the associated water usage which seems to be one of the big problems with hydrogen transport.
Fifth Circuit Rejects Disgorgement of Profits Claim for Pipeline Trespass
The Energy Law
JANUARY 28, 2022
QEP owned a mineral lease covering Plaintiffs’ property, but because it wanted to transport off-site gas across their property, QEP also obtained a pipeline servitude across Plaintiffs’ land. The court also rejected Plaintiffs’ breach of contract claims, finding no basis in the Civil Code articles on contracts for a disgorgement of profits.
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Fifth Circuit Rejects Disgorgement of Profits Claim for Pipeline Trespass
The Energy Law
JANUARY 28, 2022
QEP owned a mineral lease covering Plaintiffs’ property, but because it wanted to transport off-site gas across their property, QEP also obtained a pipeline servitude across Plaintiffs’ land. The court also rejected Plaintiffs’ breach of contract claims, finding no basis in the Civil Code articles on contracts for a disgorgement of profits.
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Plan to Zero – Load Growth (#8)
Energy Central
JANUARY 10, 2023
Follow up to the ongoing 'Plan to Zero' articles: Plan to Zero Plan to Zero - Stop! Plan to Zero - Baseload Plan to Zero - Made in the USA Plan to Zero - Do No Harm Plan to Zero - The electric super speed way 42 percent more electricity to electrify transportation 45 percent more electricity to. Don't Do That!
The Western District of Louisiana Holds that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Shipper Must Have Title Policy Creates No Private Right of Action
The Energy Law
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
sued the unit operator for breach of contract to recover transportation costs incurred as a result of alleged regulatory violations of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) Shipper-Must-Have-Title policy. As part of that regulatory authority, the FERC “establishes policies that govern interstate pipeline transportation.”
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How tech improves lives of people with disabilities
SmartBrief
MARCH 12, 2025
This article will explain how innovative technologies are pushing the boundaries of possibility for people with disabilities , focusing on mobility, hearing, communication and vision. Innovation in mobility, communication and access have provided life-altering solutions.
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Western District Rejects Disgorgement of Profits Claim for Pipeline Trespass
The Energy Law
MARCH 29, 2021
QEP was the lessee of a mineral lease covering Plaintiffs’ property, but because it wanted to transport off-site gas across their property, QEP also obtained a pipeline servitude across Plaintiffs’ land. The gas extracted from the wells is not a “fruit” under Louisiana law. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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Nonstandard Work Arrangements
NIOSH Science: Oil & Gas
JANUARY 3, 2017
A recent article, Nonstandard work arrangements and worker health and safety published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine describes the major standard and nonstandard work arrangements and the potential managerial, legal, and health and safety challenges associated with nonstandard arrangements.
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
JUNE 3, 2022
This program allows for carbon capture and sequestration project operators that operate outside of California to receive state income tax credits if they are engaged in direct air capture or sales of low carbon transportation fuel within the state of California. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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OSHA Awards Damages for Retaliatory Discharge of Jones Act Seaman in Violation of Seaman’s Protection Act
The Energy Law
JANUARY 10, 2020
On October 20, 2017, Bouchard Transportation’s ATB BUSTER BOUCHARD/B. 255 suffered an explosion and fire while transporting roughly 2,000 barrels of oil off Port Aransas, Texas. Two crewmembers perished as a result of the casualty. 2114) (the “SPA”). 272 Corp; Morton S. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
Possible Change to Jones Act Interpretations Regarding Coastwise Activities
The Energy Law
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Background The Jones Act, in general terms, prohibits non-coastwise endorsed vessels from engaging in the “transportation” of “passengers or merchandise” between “coastwise points”. The key inquiries in a Jones Act analysis, therefore, are: (i) passengers/merchandise, (ii) transportation, and (iii) coastwise points.
LNG Facilities Facing Environmental Challenges
The Energy Law
AUGUST 29, 2022
argues that FERC frustrated legislative intent under the NGA, misread and conflated the Act’s “LNG Terminals” provision with its “transportation facilities” provision, and incorrectly substituted its policy judgment for that of Congress, among other assertions. 1] [link]. [2] 1451 et seq.). [3] 3] 15 U.S.C. 717b(a), (e). [4] 4] Shell U.S.
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SEC’s Proposed Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures
The Energy Law
MAY 9, 2022
4] Scope 3 upstream emissions include transportation of goods to the registrant and employee business travel/commuting while downstream emissions include the use of registrant’s products and end of life treatment of sold products, among others. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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Western District Rejects Disgorgement of Profits Claim for Pipeline Trespass
The Energy Law
MARCH 29, 2021
QEP was the lessee of a mineral lease covering Plaintiffs’ property, but because it wanted to transport off-site gas across their property, QEP also obtained a pipeline servitude across Plaintiffs’ land. The gas extracted from the wells is not a “fruit” under Louisiana law. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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MADE IN AMERICA: U.S.-Built Offshore Wind Substation and Support Vessels Start to Set Sail for Federal Waters
The Energy Law
JUNE 22, 2023
The Jones Act requires that the transport of “merchandise” between U.S. Privacy Policy : By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. documented under U.S. law, and wholly owned by a U.S.
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When It Comes to Pilot Errors: State Statutes Preempt General Maritime Law
The Energy Law
DECEMBER 29, 2023
On December 4, 2023, in Marquette Transportation Co. Among the many claims asserted between the parties, Marquette Transportation Co. Privacy Policy : By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. The KIEFFER E.
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Decarbonization – The titanic challenge of our times
Yokogawa
JUNE 27, 2024
Nevertheless, whether we tackle CO2or GHG, the main culprits are the same: industry, transport, and buildings. Confining focus on transport, industry, and buildings encourages us to assess the contribution of various technologies to the ultimate goal of decarbonization – curtailment of CO2emissions to zero. Working Group III.
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How Does Blockchain Integration Impact Renewable Energy Procurement?
Navigate Power
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Article at a glance Blockchain helps buy and sell renewable energy directly between users. Oil acquisition involves several steps, from exploring potential sites to refining and transporting the collected oil. Midstream: Companies that store and transport resources 3. It makes energy trading more transparent and secure.
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Texas Supreme Court Holds that Add-Back Provision in Oil and Gas Lease Required Royalties to be Paid on Prices in Excess of the Producers’ Gross Proceeds
The Energy Law
MARCH 15, 2023
In fact, if the lessees’ gross proceeds were reduced when purchased by third-party processors at the tailgate of a processing plant to account for the cost of transportation and processing said production, the lessees would add those deducted costs to the stated sales price before computing the lessor’s royalties.
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How Free Water Knockouts Work
OilPro
AUGUST 6, 2024
In this article, we will explore what free water knockouts are, how they work, and the different types and design considerations to keep in mind when implementing them. In the oil and gas industry, the process of separating water and other impurities from crude oil and natural gas is crucial for efficient and safe production.
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New IRS Revenue Ruling Provides Opportunities for Financing Carbon Capture Equipment
The Energy Law
AUGUST 3, 2021
In 2021, an investor installed new carbon capture equipment at the plant to create a single process train for capturing, processing, and preparing to transport the carbon dioxide previously released into the atmosphere. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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Congressional Expansion of CCF Program
The Energy Law
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Several years ago, the definition of Qualified Agreement Vessels was expanded to include the short sea transportation trade. Privacy Policy: By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry.
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Decentralisation – pivotal redesign of today’s energy systems
Yokogawa
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
In my previous article , I outlined possible decarbonization scenarios. As explained in my previous article about decarbonization, there are many options for reducing CO2emissions, from stable and flexible fossil fuel plants (or, of course, with the utilization of CCUS) or nuclear and biomass to more intermittent and scattered wind and solar.
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Louisiana International Terminal Project Receives Federal Funding Boost
The Energy Law
JANUARY 3, 2024
Bernard Transportation Corridor that will connect lower St. Privacy Policy : By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. Bernard and the terminal to the interstate system.
How Future Digital Energy Systems can help with cutting climate change?
Yokogawa
APRIL 18, 2024
In simple words, it is energy system transformation from centralized, hydrocarbon generation to decentralized, lower emission generation, transportation, storage, and use. It is by far the most important, and it is the main reason why I started writing this series of articles.
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52 Liskow Obtains Victory for the Oil and Gas Industry in the Louisiana Third Circuit
The Energy Law
APRIL 17, 2019
The contracts provided that the sales price of the crude oil was based on index pricing, less an amount sometimes designated as a “transportation differential” or simply as a deduction. The Department had sought additional severance taxes from numerous Louisiana producers that sold crude oil in arm’s length sales at the lease.
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SEC Gives Advisers COVID-19 Regulatory Relief
The Energy Law
MARCH 17, 2020
The SEC explained the rationale for the relief, The disease has led to disruptions to transportation, including buses, subways, trains and airplanes, and the imposition of quarantines around the world, which may limit investment advisers’ access to facilities, personnel, and third party service providers.
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The Future of Carbon Capture and Sequestration
The Energy Law
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Additional legal and other issues surrounding CCS include transportation, long-term storage monitoring, migration and leakage liability, monitoring and enforcement of agreements, risk management, competition, taxation, and incentives such as carbon tax credits. [5] 1] [link] [2] Nigel Bankes, Jenette Poschwatta & E.
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Trudging the Rocky Landscape of Royalty Dispute Litigation with the Texas Supreme Court Yet Again in BlueStone
The Energy Law
JUNE 8, 2020
Ordinarily, royalties are free of production expenses for bringing the minerals to the surface but “usually subject to post-production costs, including taxes, treatment costs to render it marketable, and transportation costs.” Heritage Res., NationsBank , 939 S.W.2d 2d 118, 120-21 (Tex. BlueStone Nat.
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52 Texas Supreme Court Decides Energy Transfer Partners v. Enterprise Products
The Energy Law
JANUARY 31, 2020
This case began in 2011 when ETP and Enterprise explored the possibility of partnering to modify and extend, or construct anew, a pipeline to transport oil southbound from Cushing, Oklahoma. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P., a case previously featured on the Blog. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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United States Supreme Court Blocks New Jersey’s Sovereign Immunity Challenge to FERC Certificate Holder’s Condemnation of State-Owned Land
The Energy Law
AUGUST 3, 2021
Under the NGA, FERC confers eminent domain authority to private entities through issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity to certain authorized entities, including interstate natural gas transporters. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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U.S. Customs Revokes Recent Offshore Wind Ruling; Maintains Uncertainty Whether the Jones Act Applies to Wind Farm Installations on the OCS
The Energy Law
AUGUST 27, 2020
As such, CBP determined that the Installation Vessel served no transportation function. Privacy Policy: By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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At the Well vs. Off the Lease: The Fifth Circuit Asks the Texas Supreme Court to Determine Whether Off-Lease Fuel May be Deducted from Royalties Valued at the Well
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Common examples of post-production costs include gathering, transportation, processing, and compression. When Hilcorp produced gas on the Leased Premises, it transported the gas off the Leased Premises, where it used some of the gas produced from the Leased Premises to make the remaining gas marketable.
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Second Circuit Upholds Independent Contractor Status for E & P Company
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
s Transportation, LLC , —- So.3d Privacy Policy: By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. In McDaniel v R.J.’s Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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Second Circuit Upholds Independent Contractor Status for E & P Company
The Energy Law
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
s Transportation, LLC , —- So.3d Privacy Policy: By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. In McDaniel v R.J.’s Communications include firm news, insights, and events.
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40 Opportunity to Minimize the New Tax on 501(c)(3) Exempt Organization Employee Parking
The Energy Law
MARCH 25, 2019
Due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) passed by Congress in December 2017, starting in 2018 many 501(c)(3) Exempt Organizations (“EOs”) are required to treat the cost of employer-paid qualified transportation and parking benefits as unrelated business taxable income (“UBTI”) to the EO.
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One Man’s Waste is Another Man’s Treasure: Texas Appellate Court Holds that Produced Water Belongs to Mineral Owners
The Energy Law
AUGUST 4, 2023
COG also entered into surface use compensation agreements and right-of-way agreements to facilitate its use of the surface when it transported products and waste from the property. COG utilized fracing in its operations and, since commencing same, was responsible for disposing of produced water produced therefrom.
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