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EPA and Army Corps Release New WOTUS Rule

The Energy Law

In line with the Sackett holding, the final rule removes the “significant nexus standard” for wetlands from the agency regulations and amends the definition of “adjacent.”Prior The agencies have not indicated whether projects addressed under prior WOTUS definitions will be affected or may be revisited.

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Unpacking Proximate Cause in SWD Failure

Producer's Edge

The SWD5 had a mechanical packer installed at 4,492 feet, which was within 100 feet above the injection zone, as required by the Railroad Commission to prevent injected water from flowing up the wellbore. The Lees were unhappy with the remediation efforts and brought suit.

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

CG&A

fact, data exclusion should be the exception, not the norm.For example, wells that failed (mechanical issues, for example) are sometimes excluded; but what assurance exists that those failures wont happen again?Has order to achieve a repeatable average, no data should be excluded without specific, technically-based reasons.In

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Streamlining U.S. EPA Subpart W Greenhouse Gas Reporting with AWS and Sustainability Insights Framework

AWS: Energy (Oil & Gas)

In building this data lake, the team identified the necessary data sources and created a generic ingest mechanism to handle the existing and new data sources. The report configuration includes metadata such as query definitions, which allows customizing reports without changes to the reporting code.