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Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and... more +

Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and chemicals into underground rock causing fissures. The fissures widen and expand allowing petroleum and gas to escape and flow to areas where it can be retrieved. less -

Recent Settlement Under EPA’s Energy Extraction Initiative Provides Insight For Future Enforcement in the Oil and Gas Industry

King & Spalding on 4/27/2015

Given its patchwork of regulatory authority over operations in the oil and natural gas industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a national enforcement initiative to focus its efforts. Through its...more

Michigan Lawmakers Evaluate Lower Severance Tax and Infrastructure Bills for Carbon Dioxide-Injected Oil and Gas Wells

BakerHostetler on 1/31/2014

While legislation driven by the rapid growth of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has dominated oil and gas legislation in recent years, this week, Michigan lawmakers considered bills to enhance viability of other...more

Assembly Committee Advances Fracking Bill to the Floor

Stoel Rives LLP on 9/5/2013

At the end of last week, the Assembly Committee on Appropriations advanced the remaining bill regarding hydraulic fracturing, SB 4, to the Assembly Floor. After delaying the first scheduled vote on the bill, Appropriations...more

Public Comment Period for Proposed Federal Fracking Regulations Draws to a Close

BakerHostetler on 8/27/2013

The public comment period for new federal regulations regarding fracking on public lands—the first substantive update to the rules in three decades—ended on Friday with over 1 million submissions from both critics and...more

Recent Hydraulic Fracturing Trends in the United Kingdom

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 8/16/2013

August is known as the “silly season” in the U.K. media. With a large part of the country on vacation, it is a month in which newspapers struggle to fill column inches. Stories emerge that would typically not receive as much...more

BLM Announces an Environmental Assessment to Address Fracking in California

Stoel Rives LLP on 8/13/2013

Last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to address hydraulic fracturing on federal lands...more

Department of Energy Report Indicates Fracking Has Not Contaminated Drinking Water in Western Pennsylvania

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 8/7/2013

A recent study by the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) indicates that chemical-laced fluids used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have not contaminated the drinking water at a test...more

Illinois’ Hydraulic Fracturing Tax Act

McDermott Will & Emery on 7/26/2013

Prior to the Hydraulic Fracturing Tax Act, Illinois was one of the few drilling states not to impose any severance or gross production taxes on the extraction of its minerals. For oil and gas removed on or after July 1,...more

California Environmental Law and Policy Update - July 25, 2013

Allen Matkins on 7/26/2013

Environmental and Policy Focus: Interior Chief defends federal hydraulic fracturing regulations -- Bloomberg - Jul 18: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell drew on her experience as a former oil-industry engineer to defend...more

Illinois Set to Regulate Shale Oil and Gas

McDermott Will & Emery on 7/24/2013

On June 17, 2013, Illinois P.A. 98-0022 (the Act), consisting of the Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act (225 ILCS 732/1-1 et seq. (2013)) (HFRA) and the Illinois Hydraulic Fracturing Tax Act (35 ILCS 450/2-5 et seq. (2013))...more

Risks and Rewards: Insurance Coverage for Fracking Operations

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 7/23/2013

Hydraulic Fracturing, or "fracking", has been used as an extraction tool for natural gas and oil for several decades. Relatively recent developments in horizontal fracking technology have opened major new shale plays...more

DOE Statement on Marcellus Shale Hydraulic Fracturing Study

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 7/22/2013

This is a revised alert reflecting updated information in a July 19 National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) media release, which clarified prior NETL statements on the hydraulic fracturing study contained in earlier...more

Recycling of Frack Water Likely to Grow

BakerHostetler on 7/19/2013

In Texas, where hydraulic fracturing operations use up more than fifty percent of water use in certain counties, recycling of frack water could significantly impact the stressed resource. To date, only a small fraction of the...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Upholds Statewide Oil And Gas Conveyance Rules

BakerHostetler on 5/3/2013

In October of 2012 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral argument on two key cases that potentially could reshape the laws and rules applicable to hydraulic fracturing in the state. We wrote extensively about these cases...more

TRANSACTIONAL: Upstream Developments - Russia and former republics: Unconventional Russia

King & Spalding on 4/19/2013

The unconventional hydrocarbon resource boom that hit the US and Europe had gone relatively unnoticed in Russia until recently. Ignoring the world’s fascination with the potential of unconventional resources, Russia...more

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