The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of denials of applications to decommission offshore pipelines in place in a departure from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (“BSEE”) longstanding practices. Prior to 2015, BSEE routinely granted applications to decommission pipelines in place pursuant to 30 C.F.R.

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American Gas Association

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

News True Blue Blog Where energy conversations come to life. The methane biogas is cleaned and added to Summit’s system to generate both pipeline-quality renewable natural gas as well as liquid fertilizers that can be circulated back into the farms. What exactly does renewable natural gas (RNG) look like?

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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. Moreover, the district court found disgorgement is not an available remedy under Louisiana tort law for trespass. Read the opinion here.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

In addition to wetlands impacts, the groups allege that the LNG terminal and an associated pipeline would have a “staggering” impact on the climate in the form of greenhouse gas emissions. million tonnes/year of LNG that would be available for export, and the creation of 7,000 jobs. 1] [link]. [2] 1451 et seq.). [3] 3] 15 U.S.C.

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The Energy Law

JULY 3, 2019

The dispute between ETP and Enterprise began in 2011, when Enterprise approached ETP about potentially building a crude oil pipeline together. for the construction of the pipeline. The Blog/Web Site should not be used as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state regarding a particular matter.

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American Gas Association

JANUARY 24, 2025

News True Blue Blog Where energy conversations come to life. Natural gas pipelines are almost all underground, and therefore highly resistant to everything from hurricanes to ice storms. Natural gas pipelines are almost all underground, and therefore highly resistant to everything from hurricanes to ice storms.

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RBN Energy

MARCH 11, 2025

It now owns the Colex terminal, the starting point of the all-important Colonial Pipeline system, and the Sinco products pipe network, which could offer another pathway to Desert Southwest markets served by a dwindling number of California refineries.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

On June 29, 2021, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, held that a natural gas company’s right to condemn property for a pipeline under the Natural Gas Act includes the right to condemn state-owned property. In PennEast Pipeline Co. In January 2018, FERC granted PennEast’s request. On appeal, the Supreme Court disagreed.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 24, 2017

A recent decision from the Eastern District of Louisiana provides a mixed bag for pipeline companies or others whose operations involve canals. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company , coastal landowners sued pipeline operators for their alleged “failure to maintain” canals dredged pursuant to numerous rights-of-way granted from the 1950s to 1970s.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

While the First Circuit reversed the district court on nearly every point and reinstated the permits, it agreed that an EJ analysis was part of the Louisiana public trust duty applicable to state permitting. It, however, found that LDEQ had fulfilled its duty in this instance. What is EJ? What is EJScreen and how is it used?

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The Energy Law

MAY 4, 2023

When BSEE issues an order to predecessors, it requires them to monitor, maintain, and decommission all wells, pipelines, and facilities to minimize safety hazards, environmental harm, and interference with navigation or other uses of the OCS. 250.1700, et seq. . BSEE’s final rule can be found at 88 Fed. 23569 (April 18, 2023).

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As part of that regulatory authority, the FERC “establishes policies that govern interstate pipeline transportation.” The Blog/Web Site should not be used as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state regarding a particular matter. Grayson L.L.C. (Of Of Louisiana), et al. BPX Operating Co.,

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2016

President Obama signed the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act or the SAFE PIPES Act into law on June 22, 2016. Importantly, the SAFE PIPES Act mandates the PHMSA provide a report to Congress within eighteen months studying the risks and safety recommendations for existing hazardous liquid pipelines.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 21, 2021

By using this blog site you understand and acknowledge that there is no attorney client relationship formed between you and Liskow & Lewis and/or the individual Liskow & Lewis lawyers posting to this site by virtue of your using this site. The Order can be found at [link]. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Army Corps of Engineers published a final rule narrowing the scope of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act (CWA) such that certain wetlands are removed from federal jurisdiction. The final rule revises the agency regulations in light of the U.S. Supreme Court holding in its recent landmark decision, Sackett v.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

By using this blog site you understand and acknowledge that there is no attorney client relationship formed between you and Liskow & Lewis and/or the individual Liskow & Lewis lawyers posting to this site by virtue of your using this site. 16] A tragedy not unlike MORRO CASTLE provided the catalyst for the current amendment.

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American Gas Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

News True Blue Blog Where energy conversations come to life. Id be satisfied with access to more natural gas storage and pipelines. I formerly served as Workforce Development Director for the state of Georgia, and we spent years building a pipeline of high school students seeking careers in engineering and the skilled trades.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 1, 2022

The primary purpose of this meeting was to present the preliminary areas in Gulf of Mexico (GOM), recently identified by BOEM on July 20, 2022, that may be suitable for offshore wind energy development (WEAs), which are discussed in more detail in a previous blog.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

On July 15, 2020, The Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion awarding damages for a violation of due process rights against a private pipeline company. Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v. Martin Parish and were needed for construction of the pipeline. Acres, More or Less, Located in St. Martin Parish, et al. [1]

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2023

The substation’s maiden voyage marks a major milestone in the development of Jones Act compliant offshore wind vessels necessary to bring the large amount of federal utility-scale projects in the pipeline to fruition. The Kansas-engineered substation was designed and built by Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd., the largest U.S. 1331 et seq.

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Exprodat

MARCH 3, 2025

Section 34 of this act requires pipeline and infrastructure data to be reported. Essentially, this is the kit which sits on the seabed, undersea and at surface – be it pipelines, cables, SSIVs, platforms. Pipeline points – spools, valves, etc. Subsea points – wellheads, manifolds, etc. Where to go next?

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Exprodat

MARCH 3, 2025

Section 34 of this act requires pipeline and infrastructure data to be reported. Essentially, this is the kit which sits on the seabed, undersea and at surface – be it pipelines, cables, SSIVs, platforms. Pipeline points – spools, valves, etc. Subsea points – wellheads, manifolds, etc. Where to go next?

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The Energy Law

APRIL 6, 2017

The examples include the Constitution Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline segment connecting Pennsylvania to New York, and the Plains & Eastern Clean Line Project, a direct current transmission line transporting wind energy from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas to Tennessee, Arkansas, and the rest of the south and southeast.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) is slated to make further revisions to its decommissioning regulations, following other decommissioning amendments made last year as previously reported on The Energy Law Blog. 9598 (Feb. BSEE’s 2024 decommissioning rule would update 30 C.F.R.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

Chevron Pipelines Company , et al., Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property. In Lexington Land Development, L.L.C. 2020-0622 (La. 5/25/21), 2021 WL 2102932, —So. In this case, Lexington Land sued Chevron U.S.A., million purchase price.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. Sheppard , — S.W.3d 20-0904, 2023 WL 2438927 (Tex.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Plaintiffs filed suit for trespass against defendants after learning of their possible ownership of property over which numerous pipelines ran. Plaintiffs claimed that the existence of pipelines on the property at issue pursuant to servitudes granted by Shell constituted a trespass and sought damages.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

On July 15, 2020, The Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion awarding damages for a violation of due process rights against a private pipeline company. Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLC v. Martin Parish and were needed for construction of the pipeline. Acres, More or Less, Located in St. Martin Parish, et al. [1]

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The Energy Law

APRIL 2, 2019

By using this blog site you understand and acknowledge that there is no attorney client relationship formed between you and Liskow & Lewis and/or the individual Liskow & Lewis lawyers posting to this site by virtue of your using this site. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Third Circuit recently released an unpublished opinion making clear that when a pipeline company expropriates a servitude, the servitude is “perpetual,” and a Court cannot impose a term on that servitude. Enterprise TE Products Pipeline Co., Enterprise filed an appeal to the Third Circuit as to both matters.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 21, 2021

By using this blog site you understand and acknowledge that there is no attorney client relationship formed between you and Liskow & Lewis and/or the individual Liskow & Lewis lawyers posting to this site by virtue of your using this site. The Order can be found at [link]. Communications include firm news, insights, and events.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2020

a case previously featured on the Blog. 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. The Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion today in Energy Transfer Partners, L.P

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

Chevron Pipelines Company , et al., Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property. In Lexington Land Development, L.L.C. 2020-0622 (La. 5/25/21), 2021 WL 2102932, —So. In this case, Lexington Land sued Chevron U.S.A., million purchase price.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 22, 2021

Chevron Pipelines Company , et al., Although Lexington Land had these assessments in 2005, it did not file suit until December 2007 following a pipeline rupture on the property. In Lexington Land Development, L.L.C. 2020-0622 (La. 5/25/21), 2021 WL 2102932, —So. In this case, Lexington Land sued Chevron U.S.A., million purchase price.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2024

The lawsuit stemmed from EPA-led Title VI investigations into Louisiana air permitting decisions alleged to have created disparate adverse impacts on minority residents. Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs receiving federal financial assistance.

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The Energy Law

JULY 15, 2016

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released its long awaited new Notice to Lessees and Operators (NTL) updating the procedures and criteria used to determine when and if additional supplemental financial assurance is required for an Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease, pipeline right-of-way, or right-of-use and easement.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In an April 15, 2016 Order, FERC authorized Magnolia LNG, LLC to site, construct, and operate a new LNG terminal and liquefaction facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana designed to export 8 million metric tons of domestically-produced natural gas per annum, with a capacity equivalent to pipeline receipts of up to 1.4

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