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Maine faces lawsuit for failing to adopt EV mandates, the latest state-level climate court case

Energy Central

The case is one of a growing number responding to lagging progress on state climate laws that, in many cases, have now been on the books for years. What makes the Maine case unique is its targeted approach – focused.

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Author Talks: Steve Case identifies the US cities driving new innovation—and it’s not where you think

McKinsey

For the past decade, most venture capital funding in the United States went to three cities, but Steve Case says a convergence of social, technological, and policy factors is rebalancing the scale.

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Booking PUDs in a “Proven Area”… Use Caution Applying Reliable Technology

CG&A

Is it correct to book an average completion length of 7500 if the average to date has been 6800 due to some partial mechanical failures?Use Sometimes this is the case, but not always.And have there been enough 2.0 Producing well spacing and vintage are critical to analyze and understand when booking reserves to undeveloped locations.

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Legal Update: U.S. Department of Justice Gets MARPOL Conviction

The Energy Law Blog

Coast Guard by making false and fictitious entries in the vessel’s oil record book and garbage record book. As a federal environmental crime prosecutor for twenty-one years in New Orleans, my docket was comprised of many such cases. The government also claimed two crewmembers lied to the U.S.

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Proved Reserves Beyond Low (LKO) and High (HKO) Known Oil

CG&A

Without any other data, it would be difficult to book the volumes above the well completion as oil (Fig 1 – Updip Volume A).Of Of course, those volumes can be booked as gas based on the physics of fluid densities, but oil is preferred.It what other data might exist to build the case for up-structure oil?

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Violations of Environmental Terms in Federal Oil and Gas Lease Insufficient to Support a Claim under the False Claims Act

The Energy Law Blog

The plaintiff, who claimed to have illegally dumped the pollutants at the direction of the defendants, asserted that the defendants made a false claim to the federal government by certifying Oil Record Books and MMS 133 reports omitting the discharges. In determining this issue, the court looked to the materiality of the claim.

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Whitecap Resources, Veren to combine to form C$15 billion Canadian energy giant

Oil & Gas 360º

Drilling Locations This press release discloses drilling inventory in two categories: (i) booked locations (proved and probable); and (ii) unbooked locations. Booked locations represent the summation of proved and probable locations, which are derived from McDaniel & Associates Consultants Ltd.’s

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