The Energy Law

JUNE 21, 2022

Operators may now have the potential to sell carbon credits in exchange for the P&A of inactive, shut-in, or temporarily abandoned wells. Although Louisiana is allocating significant funds to P&A orphan wells, there is a lack of financial incentive for operators to address AOOG wells. million vehicles per year.

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The Energy Law

MAY 5, 2023

2023), the Texas Supreme Court held that the lessee could not invoke a force majeure clause to save its oil and gas leases when it inadvertently scheduled its operations to begin after the requisite deadline. MRC did not notice its error until approximately two weeks after May 21, 2017, at which point it had not yet spudded the new well.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2016

. § 30:10, which governs unit operations in the absence of a joint operating agreement. The amendment provides that estimated or actual drilling costs determined by the AFE sent with the notice are due within sixty (60) days of the actual spudding of the well or receipt by the notified owner of the notice, whichever is later.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 30, 2020

In Cannisnia Plantation , the Louisiana Second Circuit faced the issue of whether a mineral servitude owner conducted good faith operations sufficient to interrupt the prescription of non-use of a mineral servitude. A well was spud on March 28, 2006. Cannisnia Plantation, LLC v.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 10, 2017

Also included is a joint operating agreement (“JOA”) to govern the drilling and operation of additional development wells in a formation once a working interest in that formation has been earned in accordance with the provisions of the EJDA. The Five Lessons 1. Take advantage of the geology.

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The Energy Law

JULY 20, 2018

Since plugging and abandoning a well is an integral part of the “life cycle” of a well, and successfully P&A’ing a well is a material obligation of any operator under Louisiana law, the court determined that P&A work does facilitate drilling or production. Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. [3]

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