The Energy Law

JANUARY 21, 2021

Department of Interior (“Interior”) issued an order, effective immediately, mandating a 60-day moratorium on new oil and gas leases and drilling permits on public lands and waters (“Order”).

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The Energy Law

APRIL 19, 2021

In Eagle II , TRO-X alleged that Eagle failed to pay TRO-X its share of income generated from production on the equitable interests. Several years later, Eagle purchased several leases and sold them to Chesapeake Exploration, LLC (“Chesapeake”), reserving an overriding royalty interest and a back-in working interest (the “Interests”).

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The Energy Law

APRIL 19, 2021

In Eagle II , TRO-X alleged that Eagle failed to pay TRO-X its share of income generated from production on the equitable interests. Several years later, Eagle purchased several leases and sold them to Chesapeake Exploration, LLC (“Chesapeake”), reserving an overriding royalty interest and a back-in working interest (the “Interests”).

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The Energy Law

MARCH 28, 2022

Like traditional exploration and development, CCUS projects require the operator to secure both the necessary private property rights from landowners as well as regulatory approval from the appropriate administrative agency in order to proceed. Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects involve various legal issues.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

Several pieces of energy-industry legislation are teed up for debate as state legislatures reconvene for their first sessions of 2021. For a comprehensive list of energy legislation to be heard in upcoming state legislative sessions, see: [link]. [1] Massachusetts lawmakers recently re-filed a historic climate bill ( S. 1] [link]. [2]

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

natural disasters, Act of God); and (5) determining compliance with new certification standards for low methane gas, and improving production to satisfy these standards. CAE data will assist in making more informed and educated decisions regarding emissions from oil and gas production.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 12, 2022

In Litel Explorations, LLC v. and Gary Production Company were named as prior operators of the G.A. The Lyon Well was leaking in 2018, which prompted the LDNR to task the current operator (Sandhill Production, Inc.) Aegis Development Co., LLC , 21-0741 (La. 4/6/22), –So. Lyon Well #1. with stopping the leak.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 30, 2023

With the state’s future so thoroughly reliant on oil and gas exploration and production, legislation aimed at blocking entities that could otherwise be willing and able to participate in the state’s energy industry could seem ill-advised. However, the most recent version of the bill seems to answer these concerns.

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The Energy Law

MAY 18, 2021

Although the Court addressed this issue arising out of the City of Baltimore’s lawsuit against several energy companies, the decision likely will have impacts in the more than 20 pending climate-related cases. The energy companies appealed the district court’s remand order to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals pursuant to 28 U.S.C.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2020

BlueStone primes the Court to resolve a Texas appellate court split regarding whether a lease provision requiring royalties to be paid based on “gross” profits or value received from the sale of oil and gas production nullifies an “at the well” valuation point elsewhere in a lease. Crude Energy, LLC , 573 S.W.3d 2d at 120-21.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

natural disasters, Act of God); and (5) determining compliance with new certification standards for low methane gas, and improving production to satisfy these standards. CAE data will assist in making more informed and educated decisions regarding emissions from oil and gas production.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As it “is impossible to transfer rights to an assignee under an expired mineral lease,” in a case where oil, gas and mineral leases had expired prior to plaintiff’s acquisition of the property, the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal in Litel Explorations, L.L.C. Aegis Development Company, L.L.C.,

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The Energy Law

APRIL 2, 2019

Introducing its lawsuit with statements that “New Orleans is imperiled” and its “people are in danger,” the City contends that the defendants’ failure to maintain access canals, spoil banks, and earthen pits created in the course of exploration and production has destroyed the coastal zone.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Today, the United States Supreme Court granted a Petition for Certiorari filed by energy companies in Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit. 1447(d) limited its review of the district court’s remand order to only those grounds which were based on the energy companies acting under the authority of a federal officer.

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The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2021

Louisiana Land and Exploration Co., Iowa Production , landowners sued oil and gas companies for breach of a mineral lease. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co., The Energy Law Blog will explore the import of the prescription ruling in a separate post. State of Louisiana v. 2020-00685 (La. 6/30/2021); — So.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 17, 2019

In a victory for the oil and gas industry, the Third Circuit rendered a decision rejecting attempts by the Louisiana Department of Revenue to impose severance taxes on crude oil production based on index pricing.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 20, 2021

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the climate change lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore in 2018 against energy companies. This case is one of a number of cases brought by states, cities, and other municipalities against energy companies alleging that the companies contributed to climate change.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The court had little difficulty in concluding that the terms of the MSA between Chaps and Comstock explicitly provided that Chaps was an independent contractor, but that finding was not the end of the inquiry.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 10, 2021

TMR Exploration, Inc , 2021 WL 267916, the First Circuit affirmed a district court ruling on summary judgment applying the good faith purchaser defense provision set forth in La. A recent decision from the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal may have lasting effects on good faith purchasers of oil.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As it “is impossible to transfer rights to an assignee under an expired mineral lease,” in a case where oil, gas and mineral leases had expired prior to plaintiff’s acquisition of the property, the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal in Litel Explorations, L.L.C. Aegis Development Company, L.L.C.,

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Over seven years later, New 90 and another plaintiff-landowner sued various oil and gas companies for contamination to the property based on historical exploration and production activities dating back to the 1940s.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 29, 2021

QEP Energy Company , the Western District of Louisiana rejected, for the second time in this case, Plaintiffs’ claims seeking a disgorgement of QEP’s profits.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Years earlier, Sweet Lake sued multiple oil and gas operators, including four BP entities (collectively, “BP”), alleging environmental damage to property caused by exploration and production activities. Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. , In May 2015, a jury found BP was responsible for the damage. 30:29(F), M.J.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The demand for energy is growing, and the expectations to lower the carbon footprint are increasing,” says Barbara Burger, president of Chevron’s venture-capital arm. [3] However, majors such as Exxon, Chevron and Shell are joining a broader push to make the requisite technology cheaper and more efficient.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 4, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had finalized a voluntary disclosure program for new owners of upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production facilities. On March 29, 2019, the U.S.

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The Energy Law

JULY 20, 2018

Gulf Oil Corp. , [1] for determining whether a contract to perform services related to oil & gas exploration on navigable waters is maritime, the Fifth Circuit took up In re Larry Doiron, Incorporated [2] earlier this year in an effort to streamline the test and bring clarity to an area of the law mired in uncertainty.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 10, 2017

The EJDA also should provide that production from the producing shale formation will secure the Lease Party against the Drilling Party’s failure to perform obligations in the earning zone and its other conventional formations, as well as other earning zones. Take into account lease maintenance requirements.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

Iowa Production, et al. In 2003, the Louisiana Supreme Court rendered its landmark decision in Corbello, et al. Since then, Louisiana courts have seen a steady stream of “legacy litigation” claims being filed.

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The Energy Law

MAY 3, 2021

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 2, 2020

Riverwood Production Company, et al. (“ Riverwood ”), No. According to defendants, the Report shows, for the first time, that plaintiffs allege damages based on World War II-era exploration and production activities that were controlled, directed, and regulated by the federal government. 18-5217, 2019 WL 2271118 (E.D.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 27, 2020

law “to the subsoil and seabed of the outer Continental Shelf and to all artificial islands, and all installations and other devices permanently or temporarily attached to the seabed, which may be erected thereon for the purpose of exploring for, developing, or producing resources therefrom.” (343 1333(a)(1).

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) recently issued a proposed rule on Risk Management, Financial Assurance and Loss Prevention (“Proposed Rule”), which was published in the Federal Register on October 16, 2020 and is now open for public comment.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Governor John Bel Edwards has identified offshore wind energy as a feature component of his recently announced renewable energy initiative for the Gulf of Mexico. One topic of discussion at the meeting was offshore energy production. offshore wind energy. wind energy. wind energy. Part 585.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 28, 2016

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The SCC Estimate assigned a dollar value on estimated global damages caused by every additional ton of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere by using economic models that capture the impacts of climate change, including rising sea levels, changes to agricultural productivity, water shortages, property damages from increased flood risk, etc.

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