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Q1 2024 UK Oil and Gas Sector Update

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The Energy Act 2023 (the “Act”) (in force as from 26 October 2023) amends model clauses contained in exploration and production licences to introduce requirements for consent to be obtained from the North Sea Transition...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Another Mideast Casualty - Turkey/Israel Joint Gas Exploration

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a strong, uncompromising pro-Hamas stance in the latter’s military conflict with Israel last week.  In so doing, he torpedoed any potential in the near future for possible joint...more

Allen Matkins

Renewable Energy Update 10.06.23

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The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) is the strongest market in the U.S. when it comes to using energy storage for renewable integration, grid optimization, and electrification and decentralization, with a 43.7...more

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U.S. Department of the Interior Publishes Final Well Control Rule to Help Prevent Offshore Catastrophic Blowouts

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The United States Department of the Interior published the final well control rule on Aug. 22 from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The rule clarifies blowout preventer (BOP) system regulations and...more

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Court Rules That Unquantifiable Climate Impacts Are Not Sufficient to Overturn Project Approval

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In a recent decision, the Federal Court has rejected an attempt by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to set aside ministerial approval of a significant offshore oil and gas project. The NGOs argued that the Minister...more

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A Cost Benefit Analysis of Increased OCS Bonding

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The Opportune 2023 Study has been conducted to independently calculate the OCS plugging and abandonment (P&A) liability, assess the risk such liability poses to the U.S. taxpayer, and perform a cost-benefit analysis of how...more

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Australian Government Foreshadows Significant Reform to Australia's Offshore Oil & Gas Regulation

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The Australian government has announced proposed reforms to Australia's offshore oil & gas regulation, which are aimed at achieving appropriate stewardship of assets by increasing government scrutiny over oil & gas...more

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The Court-Side Seat: FERC Reviews, Panda Power Plaints and Sovereign Immunity

This is a brief report on new environmental law decisions, regulations and legislation. THE U.S. SUPREME COURT - Massachusetts Lobsterman’s Association v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce - On March 22, 2021, the Supreme...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The New Midas Touch — Everything He Touches Turns To Dung

Everyone noticed when President Trump issued an order earlier this month banning offshore oil and gas drilling in certain areas until 2032. It was obvious to everyone that this was a campaign stunt, intended to improve his...more

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MinMinas de Colombia publica Proyecto de Resolución criterios para proyectos E&P costa afuera

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El pasado 23 de julio, el Ministerio de Minas y Energía (MinMinas o MME) publicó el Proyecto de Resolución por la cual se establecen los criterios técnicos para proyectos de exploración y explotación de hidrocarburos costa...more

King & Spalding

Oil and Gas Incident Command and COVID-19

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COVID-19 presents the oil and gas sector with several novel safety considerations. Drilling rigs and production platforms are self-contained vessels in which workers routinely live and work in close contact...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Marcellus Shale Update: Even Facing A Pandemic, New York State Remains In The Grip Of The Green Movement

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One breakout political star of the Coronavirus crisis has been New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo. His daily briefings have been direct and succinct. Cuomo often says that numbers will drive the policy. Unfortunately, in...more

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Utilizing REITs for Midstream Assets

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The real estate investment trust (REIT) has been a preferred vehicle for investment in income producing real estate portfolios. The REIT provides investors with many federal income tax benefits associated with C-corporations,...more

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Energy Newsletter - December 2019

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Rekindling the Flame: Oil & Gas Securitizations - A number of recent structurings of investment-grade rated securitizations of oil and gas wells are sparking conversations in the U.S. upstream oil and gas industry about...more

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Fifth Circuit Extends Doiron Test For Assigning Maritime-Contract Status To Contracts That Are Not Oilfield Services Contracts

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held that its two-question Doiron test for determining whether oilfield services contracts are maritime contracts also applies when evaluating the maritime-contract...more

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Energy Newsletter - November 2019

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The IMO and the Price of Gas or The Impact of the International Maritime Organisation’s Sulphur 2020 Limit for Marine Fuel Oil on the Price of Gas - The main bunker fuel for ships is High Sulphur Fuel Oil (HSFO, with...more

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Cyprus Launches Drones To Monitor Turkish Gas Drilling In Mediterranean

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Two of the legal worlds that I straddle – energy and aviation – collided last week in the Mediterranean Sea. The implications for these two disciplines, as well as world security, could be enormous. Originally published on...more

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Mexico Oil and Gas Update: The Potential Unitization of Block 7

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Reports issued in the past week state that Pemex, Mexico's national oil company, seeks operational control of Talos Energy's Block 7 oil and gas exploration area, located in shallow waters off the coast of the State of...more

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As Bankruptcy Bells Ring in the Outer Continental Shelf, BSEE May Toll for You

In 2014, we wrote about efforts by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) to require less traditional parties to fund the decommissioning of idle oil and gas wells and related...more

Baker Donelson

The Season of Giving Continues: Another Gift for the Oil & Gas Industry – A New Well Control Rule for OCS Operations

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On May 2, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) issued the 2019 Well Control Rule (Rule), a long-awaited, revised (and final) well control and blowout preventer rule governing Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)...more

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They Say Nothing Lasts Forever, but What If Decommissioning Does?

The looming decommissioning liabilities of offshore energy producers have been a focus of the federal government in recent years. One recent case out of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Taylor Energy v. United States,...more

Opportune LLP

NAPE 2019: Top 10 Oil & Gas Themes

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The U.S. oil and gas industry has witnessed significant transformations over the last year, and 2019 should see even more transformative changes....more

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International Sanctions and the Energy Sector – Part 2: Russia

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In the first part of this three part series we considered the impact of President Trump’s decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran’s energy sector with effect from 5 November 2018. However, Iran is not unique. Other nations...more

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Upcoming Election Includes Environmental Issues for Several States

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The November 6 election will include environmental ballot initiatives as well as issues dividing candidates and the results should provide an interesting aspect of the election. ...more

Baker Donelson

Come Well or High-Water – Fifth Circuit Confirms Maritime Contract Law Applies to Decommissioning of Platforms in Navigable Waters

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With the eddies still spinning in the wheelwash of its landmark en banc opinion in In Re Larry Doiron, Inc., the Fifth Circuit in In re Crescent Energy Servs., L.L.C., 2018 WL 3420665 (5th Cir. July 13, 2018), — F.3d —, has...more

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