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2023 Changes to Louisiana’s Summary Judgment Procedure
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Fifth Circuit Certifies Post-Production Costs Question to Louisiana Supreme Court
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Unleashing the Potential of AI in the Oil and Gas Industry
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It’s Getting Hot Out There, and Landlords Need to Take Notice
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UPDATE: Plaintiffs’ Dilemma: The Inability to Collect on Judgments Against Louisiana
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Taking A Look Under The Hood: A Glance At The Corporate Transparency Act
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Don’t Fall Flat on Your Assessment. The Property Tax Appeals Deadline is August 18, 2023!
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“ALL RISE!”: An Introduction to the Business Court of Texas and Its Function
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BOEM Proposes a Major Overhaul of Additional Financial Assurance Bonding Requirements for Pipeline Right-of-Way Holders
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Making Moves: Government-Mandated Pipeline Relocations
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Callin’ Baton Rouge: a Recap of the EPA’s Primacy Hearings at the Capital
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Data Security Is Your Problem Too, But You Can Do Something About It
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Louisiana Moves Forward with Its FoCCuS on Carbon Capture and Sequestration
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Acquisitive Prescription Can Be Difficult to Prove, but Title Opinions Help
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Keeping it Cool for the Summer: a Mid-Session Legislative Update, Louisiana’s Primacy Application, and Carbon Capture Demonstration Awards
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IRS flexes its muscle, to gig your side hustle.
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Gordon Arata Supports New Civil Liberties Alliance with Landmark Win in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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The Willow Project
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Update: Supreme Court Weighs in on Overtime Pay Under the FLSA
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When Does a Failure to Train Constitute Racial Discrimination in Employment?
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To Compete or Non-Compete: The FTC’s Proposed Rule to the Latter
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IRS announces delay for implementation of $600 reporting threshold
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Using Old Platforms in the Gulf for Alternative Energy Projects
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Fight Over Louisiana’s Coastal Wetlands to Move Forward in State Court
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A Bank’s Exculpatory Clause Offers No Shield for Damages for Bank’s Mistake in Oil and Gas Lease Management – the Difference in a “Mistake” and a “Mistake in Judgment”
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An Overview of the 2022 Amendments to La. R.S. 30:10, the Louisiana Risk-Fee Statute
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Act 555 Adopted to Prevent Orphan Solar Farms
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Right of Way or Wrong of Way? Midstream Companies Need to Check Agreements Before Converting Existing Pipelines to Transport Carbon Dioxide
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Court reinstates ban on federal lease sales, sort of, but it may not matter
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Louisiana Legislature tweaks rules for single-member LLCs
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Gone with the Wind: Louisiana’s Legislative Foray into Wind Energy Projects in the Gulf of Mexico
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Wastewater Plant Has Right to Jury Trial in Oil Spill Cleanup Costs Litigation
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Revitalized Superfund Excise Taxes go into effect July 1, 2022
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Update: Supreme Court to Weigh in on Overtime Pay Under the FLSA
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Lease Sale 257 Continues to Tease Us
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A Landman’s Ignorance of the Law Offers No Shield to Forfeiture
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Orphans No More? Federal Infrastructure Law to Fund Clean Up of Orphaned Wells
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Court Ends States’ Fight Over the Keystone XL Pipeline
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Energy Companies Bid a Combined $192 Million in BOEM Oil and Gas Lease Sale for the Gulf of Mexico
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Texas Supreme Court Declines to Establish Bright-Line Rule that Accepting Royalty Checks Ratifies Unauthorized Pooling
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BOEM Resumes Oil and Gas Lease Sale for the Gulf of Mexico
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Implied Ratification of Pooling—Cashing Checks Ain’t Enough Anymore
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Update: Full Fifth Circuit Weighs in on Overtime Pay under the FLSA
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IRS Provides Tax Relief for Victims of Hurricane Ida
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Louisiana to join U.S. Climate Alliance, become carbon neutral by 2050
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Federal Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing to Resume While the DOJ Appeals Federal Court Injunction
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Balancing the SCALE: What the Passage of The SCALE Act Could Mean for Louisiana’s Energy Future
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Texas Supreme Court Weighs in on Who Is Required to Sign a Correction Instrument
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A Short-Lived Legacy: Redefining Damage Awards in Oilfield Legacy Litigation
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land is Pipeline Land: The Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Congressional Delegation of Eminent Domain Authority to Pipeline Developers
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Fifth Circuit Blocks Attempts at Arbitrating after Commencing Litigation
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Biden “Pause” on New O&G Leases Enjoined Nationwide
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Amending Texas CPRC § 38.001: A “More Equal” Means For The Recovery Of Attorneys’ Fees In Texas
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Supreme Court Rules Nearly Half of Oklahoma is Owned by Sovereign Tribes; Oil and gas producers express concern about regulatory changes
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Non-Apportionment—The Law of the Land…or is it?
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A Louisiana Legacy Case Finds Its Way Into Federal Court
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Good Faith Purchaser Survives Suit Over Sellers’ Subsurface Trespass
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BOEM Calls Off Upcoming Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale
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Biden Administration “pauses” new oil and gas leases on federal lands
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Tempers Flare Over Whether Tool Pushers May Receive Overtime
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In Mineral Lease Conflict, the Supreme Court of Louisiana Fills a Gap in Louisiana Obligations Law
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BOEM’s Lease Sale 256 Reflects Operator Enthusiasm Despite Challenges Created by COVID
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Efforts to Reduce Louisiana Oil and Gas Severance Taxes Stalled in 2020 Regular Session
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Another Texas Appellate Decision Denies Common Carrier Status for Proposed Pipeline
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The Louisiana Senate Weighs in on the Coastal Zone Suits
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Labor Law Development: Day Rate Employees Are Eligible for Overtime Pay
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How Marine Operators Are Coping with COVID-19
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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures-Texas Lien Law
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Federal Court Rules Demand From Owner Inadequate, Penalty Against Operator Too Harsh
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Federal Court Affirms Sublessee’s Liability for Original Lessee’s Obligations
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Mineral Lessees: Ask Before You Act
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Pugh Clauses: A Primer
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Texas Supreme Court Refuses to Inject “Reasonableness” Standard when Interpreting Unqualified Consent-to-Assign Clause
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BSEE and BOEM Pull Primary Fiscal Lever to Spur Shelf Activity
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1995 Law Allows Producers to Save $18 Billion in Royalties
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That Pugh Clause—Does it Really Mean What You Think It Means?
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The Push to Penalize Pipeline Protests
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Breach as a Threshold to Damages Limitations: A Look at Apache Deepwater, LLC v. W&T Offshore, Inc.
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U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies When State Laws Apply on the OCS
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New Clarifications from BSEE on Suspensions of Production and Operations
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3rd Circuit Rules Favorably for Oil Producers
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Blame Game Continues Under Texas Indemnification Law
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Louisiana 5th Circuit Greenlights Permit For New Pipeline
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Strict Liability for Ultrahazardous Activities Under Former Civil Code Article 667
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5th Circuit Pumps Brakes on Royalty Owner Class Certification
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Industry Expects US Shale Growth to Offset Global Production Problems
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Take Heed to Avoid Being Cast a Single Business Enterprise
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The 5th Circuit Allows Debtor Mineral Lessee to Avoid Breached Settlement Agreement with Mineral Lessor
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Louisiana Supreme Court Settles Two Important Questions Under the Mineral Code
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BOEM Proposes Beaufort Sea Lease Sale for 2019
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Reverberations from Trump’s Steel Tariffs Likely to Reach the Oil and Gas Industry
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Can Parties Form an Enforceable Contract to Sell Assets Based on Exchanged Emails When the Bid Procedure Required a Purchase and Sale Agreement? Texas Court of Appeals says Maybe
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Louisiana First Circuit Tosses Out Commissioner of Conservation Order
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U.S. 5th Circuit Rejects OCSLA-Based Criminal Charges Against Contractors
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BSEE Finally Allows Pipeline ROWs To Be Co-Owned
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BLM Moves to Rescind Federal Fracking Regulations
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Noble Energy Gets More Than It Bargained For in Bankruptcy Purchase
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Federal Appeals Court Prevents Environmental Group from Suing Over Gas Well Estimates
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BSEE Extends Time OCS Lease Remains in Effect After Cessation of Operations or Production
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Louisiana Department of Revenue Attempts to Rewrite Crude Oil Purchase Agreements in an Effort to Collect More Severance Taxes
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5th Circuit Upholds “Subsequent Purchaser Rule” For Mineral Leases
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Recent Developments on Interrupting Prescription of Non-Use of a Mineral Servitude
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Courts At Odds Whether Non-Operator Lessees Can Invoke LA. R.S. 30:103.1 and LA. R.S. 30:103.2
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Update: BOEM Withdraws Sole Liability Orders Issued Under NTL 2016-01
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Texas appellate court rules that mineral leases with municipalities are worth more than the paper they are written on
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BOEM Delays NTL 2016-01 for Non-Sole Liability Properties
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What Does the Future Hold for BOEM’s Financial Assurance Requirements?
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Louisiana’s Law of Reversionary Mineral Interests Revisited
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Interpretation of Depth Limitation Clauses in Mineral Transfers
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Protecting Operators Who Act In Reliance on an Order of the Commissioner of Conservation
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Boustany Introduces “Ending Legacy Lawsuit Abuse Act”
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Governor Edwards and Attorney General Landry Still at Loggerheads Over Potential Oil and Gas Lawsuits
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Legislature Establishes New Requirement for Changing the Operator of a Well
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Lease Division in Louisiana – “The Times They Are A-Changin’”
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Amendment to Louisiana Risk Fee Statute Closes Loophole Shown by Recent Case
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BOEM Issues NTL Implementing Major Changes to its Financial Security Requirements for the OCS
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Louisiana Supreme Court Denies Writs
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Will Things Be Different in Cameron Parish?
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Can the Government Keep Changing the Rules for its Existing Contracts?
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Louisiana Water Bottoms and the “Freeze Statute”
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Adjacent Lands Clauses in Mineral Leases
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BOEM Publishes Final Rule for Leasing in the OCS
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Louisiana Revised State Lease Form Update; Critical Meeting in Baton Rouge on May 11
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Emergency Rule of Office of Conservation Provides Relief
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Pipeline Safety Legislation Picks Up Steam
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Preemptive Authority of Commissioner’s Actions Affirmed
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“New York City?? Get a Rope!” Considering Chapter 11 Venues for Distressed Oil and Gas Companies
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Beware of Louisiana Severance Tax Assessments on Crude Oil
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IBLA Upholds Decommissioning Order Against OCS Lease Assignor
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Hayes Fund Comes Undone
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Plaintiffs’ Day in (Federal) Court
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Louisiana Mineral Board Seeks Comments to Proposed New Lease Form
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A Snapshot of Louisiana’s Risk-Fee Statute
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BOEM Proposes Major Changes to its Financial Security Requirements for the OCS
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5th Circuit Slaps Down Another Oil and Gas Insurer for Denying Coverage
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5th Circuit Rules Which BP Stockholders May Sue as a Class
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Changes to Louisiana Law on the Pledge of a Lessor’s Rights in a Lease of an Immovable and its Rents
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Coastal Use Permits: Don’t Think You’re Done
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The Cost of FRACKLOGGING
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Refrac Obligations Under Model Form JOA-How Will Louisiana Courts Interpret?
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You Can Run But You Can’t Hide: U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Interstate Pipeline and Gas Companies Can Be Sued in State Court under State Antitrust Laws
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Legal Battle Over New Federal Fracking Regulations
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Of Industry’s Bondage: BOEM Set to Modernize Financial Security Program
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The Impact and Opportunities of Falling Oil Prices
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Say What You Mean, and Mean What You Say – A Review of Recent Decisions Interpreting Mineral Reservations Under Louisiana Mineral Code Article 74
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The Louisiana Oil Well Lien Act
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Update: Supreme Court Declines to Review New Bonding Requirements for Existing OCS Leases
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Changes in Store to the U.S. Crude Oil Export Ban?
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Coastal Use Permits: General or Site-Specific?
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Recent Department of Labor Enforcement Actions against Oilfield Services Contractors
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Potato, Potahto, Tomato, Tomahto, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off!! Act 544 and the SLFPA- East
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Supreme Court Asked to Review New Bonding Requirements for Existing OCS Leases
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Hayes Fund for the First United Methodist Church of Welsh, LLC v. Kerr-McGee Rocky Mountain, LLC: The 3rd Circuit Gives Plaintiff Landowners the Cream Without the Calories
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Louisiana Title Examiners, Take Note of Recent Change in the Mineral Code on Prescription
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SEC Sued To Implement Rule for Oil Company Disclosure on Government Payments
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Unitization Victory for E&P Companies at Louisiana Supreme Court
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A Litigator’s Perspective on the Purchase and Sale Agreement (PSA)
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Study Reveals Oil and Gas Industry is a Major Economic Driver in Louisiana
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5th Circuit Broadens Insurance Coverage for Many E&P Companies
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Environmental Management Orders: Don’t Forget About Coastal Use Permits!
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Louisiana Governor Signs Legislation to Halt Levee Board Suit
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Louisiana at the Forefront of LNG Exportation
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A Closer Look at “Clovelly” – A Common Sense Approach
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Preliminary Hearings in Legacy Litigation – Preliminary in Theory, Not So Preliminary in Practice
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Louisiana Severance Tax Incentives
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NGP Capital v. ATP
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Will the proposed legislative changes rein in legacy lawsuits and bring energy development back to Louisiana?
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Revised BOEM transfer forms available – effective, March 19, 2014
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Mexico Energy Reforms
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Environmental Management Orders: Timing Is in the Eye of the Beholder
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Oil Field Confidential: Protecting Seismic Data and Other Trade Secrets
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2014 OCS Regulatory Priorities – The Safety Dance