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Top 5 Blog Posts from 2019

Coolfire Core

Before we turn the page on the year, lets take a look back at our top 5 blog posts from 2019. In the e-commerce era, consumers will simply move on to a competitor (often ordering the same product with same-day shipping from Amazon) leaving the retailer with a lost sale opportunity. Read full text 3. Read Full Text 5.

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LDNR Issues Proposed Rule on Venting, Flaring

The Energy Law

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) has proposed a rule that will significantly restrict the practice of venting and flaring at wellsites in an effort to address natural gas waste in Louisiana. If you have further questions, contact Liskow’s Cristian Solar or James Lapeze.

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Latest Version of Louisiana Property Protection Bill Grants an Exception to Oil and Gas Investment By Companies Controlled By Countries Deemed a “Foreign Adversary”

The Energy Law

However, HB 537 provides an exception for those “adversary” entities who have already been conducting oil and gas operations in the state. On its face, such a sweeping ban on the acquisition of immovable property by foreign corporations in Louisiana could have the potential to negatively affect the state’s future in oil and gas industry.

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Overturning 8 Years of “Palpable Error,” The Louisiana Supreme Court Limits Damages Available to Landowners in Oilfield Legacy Litigation

The Energy Law

The “ LL&E II ” decision finds that Act 312 charges the court, not the jury, to determine the funding needed to remediate property to government standards. 3d — (“ LL&E II ”). [1]. Background of Legacy Litigation and LL&E I . Iowa Production , landowners sued oil and gas companies for breach of a mineral lease.

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Louisiana State Mineral Board to Consider Retaining Third Party Counsel to Pursue Underpayment of Royalty Claims Associated with Natural Gas Production on State Lands and Waterbottoms

The Energy Law

The agenda specifically states that the Mineral Board will engage in “[a] discussion regarding the potential for the State Mineral and Energy Board to enter into a legal contract with a third party that would pursue claims of underpayments of royalties related to natural gas production on state lands and water bottoms.”

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Texas Supreme Court Holds that References to “One-Eighth” in Old Oil and Gas Conveyances Presumptively Refer to the Entire Mineral Estate

The Energy Law

In the context of antiquated oil and gas conveyances including a double fraction that includes “one-eighth,” the Court affirmed this principle by holding that such language gives rise to a rebuttable presumption that “one-eighth” refers to the entire mineral estate. Dils Co. , 2d 904 (Tex. Dawkins , 483 S.W.3d

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Fifth Circuit Rejects Disgorgement of Profits Claim for Pipeline Trespass

The Energy Law

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. Even if the proceeds of the gas were considered a “fruit,” the court found the proceeds were not a fruit of anything Plaintiffs owned.