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EPA and BSEE Team Up to Resolve Offshore Environmental Violations

The Energy Law

The Violation In March 2012, BSEE conducted an inspection of ATP’s floating production platform facility, known as the ATP Innovator, while it was moored to the sea floor about 45 nautical miles offshore of southeastern Louisiana (about 125 miles south of New Orleans) and engaged in the production of oil and natural gas.

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Renewable Energy Efforts Highlighted in Draft Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Louisiana

The Energy Law

This document contains proposed strategies and specific actions across several priority areas to be considered in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon capture can use a variety of techniques to remove emissions from industrial and power production operations post-combustion. The period for public comment ends on October 8 th.

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Sea Change: New BOEM Proposed Rule Signals Major Shift in How Air Emissions Would Be Regulated in the OCS

The Energy Law

With the title of “Air Quality Control, Reporting, and Compliance,” the 349-page document details what would be the first major re-write of the OCS air quality regulations in 35 years. On March 17, BOEM released a pre-publication version on their website. 1334(a)(8).

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Using ArcGIS REST Services as Power BI Data Sources (Part 2)

Exprodat

For example, if the service is in European Datum 1950, there is a long list of transformations for retrieving WGS84 coordinates, but ED50 to WGS 84 (18) is most commonly used for UK offshore oil and gas exploration and production, so we could use the code 1311 as the datum transformation.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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BSEE’s Investigations and Review Unit Changes the Playing Field on the OCS

The Energy Law

The reorganization gave BSEE regulatory authority (PDF) over safety and environmental affairs for OCS exploration and production activities. For example, an operator might only learn of the IRU investigation when it receives a request from the IRU to provide documents and/or make its employees available for interviews.

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