BOEM held its first-ever auction for wind energy lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico on August 29, 2023. The three lease areas up for auction covered a combined 301,746 acres off the coast of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and...more
After years of blunted growth and false starts, the US is finally scaling up offshore wind. While most progress had been spurred by state policies incenting projects in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast, the federal...more
On July 21, 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a Final Sale Notice (FSN) for offshore wind leases covering three areas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The auction will...more
The Biden Administration bolstered its ambitious clean energy goals this week by announcing the Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Clean Hydrogen report, along with $750 million in funding for research, development, and...more
On December 9, 2022, Guyana released the preliminary terms for an oil and gas tender covering a total of 14 offshore blocks, including 11 deep water blocks and three shallow water blocks.1 Guyana estimates that the blocks...more
Vents de Carême – Cajun French term for "strong spring winds, 'March winds'" (Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole and American Indian Communities (Univ. of Miss. Press, 2010, p. 646); literally...more
With the oil and gas industry seeking ways to adapt to our current climate-driven world, some might argue that the oil and gas industry is leading the global energy transition. It is happening across the industry from the...more
The Biden administration continues to take critical steps that will help them meet their goal of installing 30 gigawatts of wind energy by 2030. New York Bight Proposed Lease Sale - On Friday June 11, the Bureau of...more
This newsletter provides a look around the corner, highlighting top issues and emerging opportunities for the private sector. This edition covers, among other relevant topics, a number of recent U.S. political developments...more
The Gulf of Mexico is an attractive location for offshore wind development according to two recent studies conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and funded by the U.S. Bureau...more
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
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
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) has backed away from its proposed rulemaking regarding financial assurance requirements for the Outer Continental Shelf (“OCS”). On August 19, 2014, BOEM published an Advance...more
The historic tender for shallow water blocks in the Gulf of Mexico will allow for private and foreign investment in Mexican oil and gas for the first time in almost 80 years. On July 15, Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons...more
The U.S. Gulf Coast—with its 1.4 million barrels per day of coker[*] refining capacity geared to maximize output of high-value lighter products from lower-cost, heavy, high-sulfur crude oil feedstocks—is an ideal market for...more