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By EDF Blogs Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2020. oil and gas industry expands, the vast network of largely unregulated pipelines that transport unprocessed natural gas —known as gathering pipelines — has crept closer and closer to residential communities. Most gathering pipelines are currently exempt.
Fifth Circuit held that a landowner is not entitled to a pipeline company’s profits as a consequence of a portion of a pipeline being located partially outside of a servitude. 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.
Fifth Circuit held that a landowner is not entitled to a pipeline company’s profits as a consequence of a portion of a pipeline being located partially outside of a servitude. 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.
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. Accordingly, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of QEP as to all of Plaintiffs’ claims. Read the opinion here.
By Jillian Marullo Senate Bill 514, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes saltwater pipeline operators in Texas “to install, maintain, and operate” saltwater pipelines “through, under, along, across, or over a public road” in order to transport the wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing operations to disposal sites.
By Carlos Moreno : The Supreme Court of Texas recently delivered a revised opinion discussing the power of eminent domain exercised by a common carrier CO2 pipeline. Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC , No. Denbury Green then attempted to condemn a pipeline easement from land owned by Texas Rice Land Partners, Ltd. Texas Rice”).
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.
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. Accordingly, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of QEP as to all of Plaintiffs’ claims. Read the opinion here.
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. 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.
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 pipelinetransportation.”
In Kachina Pipeline Company, Inc. Factual Background Kachina Pipeline Company, Inc. Kachina”) operates a natural gas gathering system, as well as a gas pipeline. Kachina utilized its pipeline to transport gas it purchased to Davis Gas Processing’s Plant (“Davis Plant”) where it was re-sold. Lillis, No.
FGT announced that it would not interrupt previously scheduled market area interruptible transportation service below the elapsed-prorated-scheduled quantity. Furthermore, on September 5, FGT announced maintenance work beginning on September 6, which is expected to last until September 8.
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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. 2] PennEast Pipeline, PennEast Pipeline Statement on Favorable U.S.
Relying on a 1966 order that the pipelines in question were a transport system, the FERC determined that the pipelines were for the primary purpose of transporting gas. The panel concluded that several features of the pipelines weighed in favor of the finding that their primary purpose was the gathering of gas.
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 Jones Act requires that the transport of “merchandise” between U.S. 1331 et seq. back in 2021.
Midstream Investments; Transportation and Storage : The midstream sector focuses on transporting and storing oil and gas from production sites to refineries and end-users. Investment opportunities in this sector include pipelines, storage facilities, and LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminals.
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
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
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. 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.
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.
Plains Pipeline, L.P. The cutter head punctured a pipeline owned by Plains Pipeline that carried product for Phillips 66. The panel also addressed a subsidiary issue: whether Phillips’ costs it incurred in transporting its oil by alternative means following the allision were precluded by Robins Dry Dock.
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.
AI models analyze real-time data from drilling sites, pipelines, and refineries, adjusting operations to optimize production and efficiency. AI-powered systems can fine-tune extraction techniques, monitor pipeline integrity, and adjust refinery processes to maximize output while reducing the risk of inefficiencies.
Vertrax CEO Vinny Mullineaux (center) with Ken Zimmerman, CEO of Chateaux Software (left) and Vijay Rathna, Director of Enterprise Applications, Chateaux Software (right) Individual data points are like fuel molecules waiting in pipelines and tanks to heat our homes or cook our food.
Second, Louisiana already has a developed pipeline infrastructure that is necessary to transport carbon dioxide to where it can be utilized and stored. 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.
This action proposes the state continue to work with federal and state partners and industry to determine potential sites for storage, to identify a regulatory and legal framework that supports CCUS, and to determine impacts of capture and transport infrastructure buildout. Associated Submitted Action Proposals: N/A).
The proposed rule also covers various miscellaneous items such as registration requirements for generation of renewable electricity that is used as transportation fuel and requirements for facilities that could potentially use carbon capture and storage with respect to emissions from renewable fuels in the future.
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. Crude Energy, LLC , 573 S.W.3d 3d 198, 203 (Tex.
Further, this section directs FERC with the Secretaries of Energy, Transportation and Interior to “facilitate the.the construction of pipelines necessary to transport oil and natural gas through NPRA to existing transportation of processing infrastructure on the North Slope of Alaska.”
Second, Louisiana already has a developed pipeline infrastructure that is necessary to transport carbon dioxide to where it can be utilized and stored. 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.
For purposes of the rule, the point of custody transfer is defined as the point where hydrocarbon liquids or natural gas enter a pipeline or any other form of transportation, or the point where hydrocarbon liquids or natural gas enter a natural gas processing plant. 7412 (n)(4)(A).Section 7412(n)(4) (emphasis added); see also 40 C.F.R.
Finally, the regulations will likely address other key issues including transportationpipelines, spacing between lease areas, environmental monitoring requirements, and use of legacy OCS infrastructure for CCS purposes. total CO 2 emissions.
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking According to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, the “Bakken crude oil is on the high end of volatility compared to other crude oils,…[and] its production is skyrocketing, up from 9,500 rail car loads in 2008 to 415,000 last year, a more than 4,000 percent increase.” See 79 Fed. 45,016 (Aug.
As if crude producers and midstream transportation companies don’t already have enough problems trying to get crude oil from production fields to refineries thanks to inadequate pipeline infrastructure, tank car supply, rail safety concerns, and new regulations, they now also have to address a new, potentially market-busting lawsuit.
In 2015, then-Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a report asserting that no new natural gas pipelines were needed into the region and that the regions power grid faced no reliability deficiency through at least 2030. All was fine, said the Attorney General. A reality the Governor’s constituents are now forced to face.
Section 6 of the Order revoked TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P.’s s March 2019 permit to construct and operate cross-border pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canada Critical to the success of this project is TC’s attainment of a Presidential Permit allowing the company to construct a pipeline that crosses the border between the U.S.
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Biden’s “energy” plan focuses largely on historic levels of public investment in clean and renewable energy sources and infrastructure ( e.g. , solar, wind, electric vehicles), reducing greenhouse gas emissions (primarily from the transportation, electricity and other industrial sectors), and curbing the effects of climate change.
Biden’s “energy” plan focuses largely on historic levels of public investment in clean and renewable energy sources and infrastructure ( e.g. , solar, wind, electric vehicles), reducing greenhouse gas emissions (primarily from the transportation, electricity and other industrial sectors), and curbing the effects of climate change.
Biden’s “energy” plan focuses largely on historic levels of public investment in clean and renewable energy sources and infrastructure ( e.g. , solar, wind, electric vehicles), reducing greenhouse gas emissions (primarily from the transportation, electricity and other industrial sectors), and curbing the effects of climate change.
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