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Nigeria Oil Industry Overview

Drillers

Recently, the Nigerian government demanded more than $60 billion in back royalties under a production sharing agreement with the supermajors operating in the country. The government has been fighting the illicit refineries for years. The government had little choice but to try and negotiate peace with the militants.

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Fifth Circuit Rejects EPA’s Overreaching on CAA and MBTA

The Energy Law Blog

The CPI separators have roofs that prevent the release of air emissions, but the equalization tanks (as well as the other downstream equipment) do not. 2] In the Citgo case, the Fifth Circuit dove into these uncertain regulatory waters head on.

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Five Lessons Learned from Executing Shale Drilling Transactions

The Energy Law Blog

Also included is a joint operating agreement (“JOA”) to govern the drilling and operation of additional development wells in a formation once a working interest in that formation has been earned in accordance with the provisions of the EJDA.

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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law Blog

Plaintiffs alleged that despite advance knowledge of the likelihood for significant downstream flooding, SRA-L decided to open spillway gates freeing water from the reservoir into the Sabine River to alleviate elevated reservoir volumes from a cataclysmic rain storm in March of 2016.

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Trudging the Rocky Landscape of Royalty Dispute Litigation with the Texas Supreme Court Yet Again in BlueStone

The Energy Law Blog

With the prevalence of cases involving royalty disputes in Texas, the state’s Supreme Court has never hesitated to address these issues. Heritage Resources is the underlying case that must be understood to decipher the Supreme Court’s logic as it continues to rectify the numerous creative royalty provisions across Texas today.

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EPA and BSEE Team Up to Resolve Offshore Environmental Violations

The Energy Law Blog

The government also noted that the Cleartron ZB-103’s MSDS states that it is harmful to aquatic life. For these reasons, the government claims that the discharge of Cleartron ZB-103 in this manner was an unlawful discharge of a CWA “pollutant.” See United States v. ATP Oil & Gas Corp. , 955 F.Supp.2d 2d 616 (E.D. See 40 C.F.R.

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Emissions — genuine evidence of arrogance or a smart measure of sustainability?

Yokogawa

Take a look at how corporations, society, and governments are accounted for their emissions. Scope 3 : Emissions in complete upstream and downstream supply chain. GHG protocol and different scopes report and account for emissions. It is covering not only CO2, N2O, and CH4 but also anthropogenic ones (SF6, HFCs, and PFCs).