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. In Eagle II , TRO-X alleged that Eagle failed to pay TRO-X its share of income generated from production on the equitable interests. TRO-X, L.P. , 18-0983, 2021 WL 1045723, at *1 (Tex.

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The Energy Law

MAY 4, 2023

RUE grants are authorizations from BOEM to use a portion of the seabed not encompassed by the holder’s lease to construct, modify, or maintain platforms, artificial islands, facilities, installations, and other devices that support exploration, development, or production of oil and gas or other energy resources from another lease.

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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

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

JANUARY 21, 2021

The 60-day suspension is to allow the incoming Administration time to review and evaluate Interior’s programs, including its oil and gas programs. The Order can be found at [link].

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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. Department of Agriculture that found China’s ownership of U.S.

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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

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. Heritage Res., NationsBank , 939 S.W.2d 2d 118, 120-21 (Tex.

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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

MAY 18, 2021

In the City of Baltimore’s case, the City asserted several state-law causes of action centered on the alleged misleading promotion, and failure to warn about the dangers of, fossil-fuel products. The non-reviewability clause states that “[a]n order remanding a case to the State court from which it was removed is not reviewable on appeal.”

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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. The district court, applying La Civ.

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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(C)(5). Farms, Ltd.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In McDaniel v R.J.’s s Transportation, LLC , —- So.3d Plaintiff was injured when he was exposed to a hydrochloric acid spill at a Comstock well site during fracking operations.

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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. Iowa Production , landowners sued oil and gas companies for breach of a mineral lease. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co., State of Louisiana v. 2020-00685 (La. 6/30/2021); — So. 2d 686 (La.

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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. The trial court agreed and dismissed all of New 90’s claims.

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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. 19618 (April 11, 2000), and Interim Approach to Applying the Audit Policy to New Owners, 73 Fed.

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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. Many shale drilling transactions, however, do not include well payout provisions.

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The Energy Law

MAY 3, 2021

The stipulation went on to declare the boundary of the mineral estate in accordance with the boundary line contained in the Samson survey—that the disputed 154-acre tract was part of the southeast tract. The parties signed the stipulation in August and September 2008, and it was subsequently recorded in the county records. Analysis and Holding.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Fourth Circuit, agreeing with the City of Baltimore, held that 28 U.S.C. 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

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. Historically, under NTL No.

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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. Since its inception on January 1, 1980, the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act has included a “citizen suit” provision. 30:2025(E).

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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. Moreover, the district court found disgorgement is not an available remedy under Louisiana tort law for trespass.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

DBR sued Tier 1 and the mineral owners in September 2017, asserting its right to develop Section 2. After considering the parties’ competing motions for summary judgment, the trial court sided with DBR. DBR further argued that the leases’ reference to “said land. Justice Ferguson put DBR’s argument to the test. “Can he asked. “It

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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Fourth Circuit, agreeing with the City of Baltimore, previously held that Section 1447(d) limits an appellate court’s review of a 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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

However, majors such as Exxon, Chevron and Shell are joining a broader push to make the requisite technology cheaper and more efficient. Producers and governments have shown interest in CCS as it allows for the continued use of fossil fuels while reducing net carbon dioxide emissions.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Carbon capture can use a variety of techniques to remove emissions from industrial and power production operations post-combustion. This process of utilization refers to the use of CO2 directly or as a feedstock in industrial or chemical processes, to produce valuable carbon-containing products, where CO2 can generate economic value.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

With topics ranging from offshore oil and gas moratoriums to restrictions on natural gas flaring and venting, the following is an overview of notable energy legislation to be heard in state legislatures this year. The Texas Legislature convened for its 2021 session earlier this month with several issues on the agenda.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

One topic of discussion at the meeting was offshore energy production. The Governor noted that he has reached out to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) to create a task force of federal, state and local officials tasked with mapping out a plan for renewable energy production in the Gulf of Mexico. offshore wind energy.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 28, 2016

In the lawsuit, a group of contractors that regularly solicits government contracts claims that the new requirements are preempted by other federal labor laws, violate the First Amendment and Due Process guarantees, are arbitrary and capricious, and violate the Federal Arbitration Act.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Creating a new procedure to establish the sequence in which BSEE will order predecessors in title to fulfill their accrued decommissioning obligations when the current lessees or grant holders (or their predecessors) fail to do so. Each party remains liable for its own accrued obligations.

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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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The Energy Law

JANUARY 29, 2021

On January 21, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he will donate $100 million to the “best” carbon capture technology, chosen through a competition whose details and judging criteria are yet to be announced. As part of this effort, Exxon is creating a new entity, ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Accordingly, the Court granted the Plaintiff States’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction concluding that the Agency Defendants “shall be enjoined and restrained from implementing [the Lease Pause] with respect to Lease Sale 257, Lease Sale 258, and all eligible lands onshore.” Id.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Accordingly, the Court granted the Plaintiff States’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction concluding that the Agency Defendants “shall be enjoined and restrained from implementing [the Lease Pause] with respect to Lease Sale 257, Lease Sale 258, and all eligible lands onshore.” Id.

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