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EPA and BSEE Team Up to Resolve Offshore Environmental Violations

The Energy Law

Recently, when there was talk about Houston-based ATP Oil and Gas’ (ATP) legal problems, it was inevitably about its bankruptcy and its effort to bring the overriding royalty interests it had conveyed back into the bankrupt estate as debt instruments. The consent decree neither defines the term “responsible corporate official.”

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Louisiana Second Circuit Addresses: (1) Creation of Mineral Servitudes Via Notarial Acts of Correction; (2) Obstacles Suspending the Prescription of Nonuse from Running Against Mineral Servitudes; and (3) Payment of Court Costs in Concursus Actions

The Energy Law

By definition, a clerical error is an error in writing or copying a document. A reservation of mineral rights is a substantive change, because the addition of a reservation of mineral rights would change the effect of the document in regard to the real rights held by the parties to the act. However, art.

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