Global Energy

MAY 2, 2016

On April 4, 2016, the Government of Alberta (“GoA”) released The Government of Alberta’s Policy on Consultation with Metis Settlements […]

Consulting

Global Energy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

On November 3, 2016, the Alberta government released the details of its long-awaited plan to accelerate the development of renewable […]

Government

Oil & Gas 360º

JUNE 5, 2025

1 The state’s rich geology is only part of the story; its vast amount of privately-owned land, commonsense conservative government, responsible science-based regulatory environment, and oilfield infrastructure make it uniquely suited to adapt quickly to market changes and technological advances. 3 Future potential. 6 This is more than 5.6

Oil

Mees

MAY 2, 2025

Saudi Arabia has transformed over the past decade as the government has pursued the Vision 2030 reform program launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud in 2016.

Government

The Energy Law

MAY 6, 2016

In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. Now, the Colorado Supreme Court rendered two opinions on May 2, 2016 finding state law preempted local efforts to prohibit fracking. Colorado Oil and Gas Association , 2016 CO 29, P. City of Longmont v.

Hydraulic Fracturing

The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Petitioners include thirty States, State agencies, and local government entities and more than one hundred private companies, cooperatives, and industry trade groups. Circuit may rule in the Fall or Winter of 2016. The lawsuit, West Virginia v. 15-1363) is unusual because of its sheer volume. Court of Appeals for the D.C.

Casing

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The government thus argued to the jury that, rather than repair or replace the oily-water separator, the shipping company and crew bypassed the device and discharged 20,000 gallons of oil-contaminated waste water to the sea prior to the vessel’s arrival in the Port of Mobile. The government also claimed two crewmembers lied to the U.S.

Government

Drillers

MARCH 24, 2020

Recently, the Nigerian government demanded more than $60 billion in back royalties under a production sharing agreement with the supermajors operating in the country. The government has been fighting the illicit refineries for years. The government had little choice but to try and negotiate peace with the militants.

Oil

The Energy Law

JULY 21, 2016

2016 WL 3568093, at *1-2 (5th Cir. June 30, 2016). Subsequently, on June 30, 2016, in a 2-1 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed Judge Feldman’s ruling, upholding the FWS’s designation of Unit 1 as a “critical habitat” under the ESA. Markle Interests, 2016 WL 3568093, at *10-12.

IT

The Energy Law

MAY 12, 2016

On May 4, 2016, environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes.

Gas

Iraq Business News: Oil & Gas

JUNE 1, 2025

My major research and publishing work is documented through a series of books, published under unified title- Iraq Petroleum Sector Chronicle (IPSC) ; six volumes are already published, covering the period up to end 2015, and new volumes are in the pipeline, covering the period from 2016 onwards. Elaborated research methodology.

Petroleum

Exprodat

MARCH 3, 2025

As part of this, the Energy Act 2016 requires each UKCS operator to appoint a named Information and Samples Coordinator (ISC), who is responsible for reporting petroleum-related information to NSTA. The North Sea Transition Authority are the UKs oil, gas and carbon storage regulator, tasked with driving the energy transition in the North Sea.

Pipeline

Exprodat

MARCH 3, 2025

As part of this, the Energy Act 2016 requires each UKCS operator to appoint a named Information and Samples Coordinator (ISC), who is responsible for reporting petroleum-related information to NSTA. The North Sea Transition Authority are the UKs oil, gas and carbon storage regulator, tasked with driving the energy transition in the North Sea.

Pipeline

Exprodat

APRIL 23, 2025

The Shell Standard Symbology 2016 is divided into a Green Oil style and a Red Oil style, both of which are available to download from the Esri Industry Styles content page. Esri (2018) Shell Standard Legend 2016 TTF files. Crameri, F., Shephard, G.E., Heron, P.J. Available here (Accessed: 4 December 2024). Esri (2020) Mining.

Management

Oil and Gas Investments

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Brazilian government data (SECEX) from January 16, 2024, shows that Brazil exported about $166.6 The preliminary environmental license was awarded in 2016, but then left in limbo for the following 6 years while objections went through the courts to decide if all aspects of the license had been done in compliance.

Casing

The Energy Law

MAY 10, 2016

would not extend venue to Alliance, Pritchard, or James River, even if they were joint or solidary obligors of XTO, “because the article that governs venue in the case of joint and solidary obligors, La. However, the Third Circuit explained that Article 76.1

Drilling rig

The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2023

Plaintiffs alleged that despite advance knowledge of the likelihood for significant downstream flooding, SRA-L decided to open spillway gates freeing water from the reservoir into the Sabine River to alleviate elevated reservoir volumes from a cataclysmic rain storm in March of 2016.

Casing

The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2020

2016) (holding that a disclaimer of Heritage Resources “cannot free a royalty of postproduction costs when the text of the lease itself does not do so” and that such disclaimer did not influence the Court’s decision). Heritage Resources holds only that the effect of a lease is governed by a fair reading of its text.” Chesapeake Expl.,

Royalty

Oil & Gas 360º

APRIL 14, 2025

Energy Secretary Chris Wrightformer CEO of Liberty Energy and now the governments top oil whispererseems utterly unbothered. In 2015 and 2016 oil prices twice hit $28 [per barrel], and what happened? What did the U.S. shale industry do in that timeinnovate, get smarter, drive their costs down, and thats whats happening right now.

Energy

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Hours before a controversial set of new reporting requirements for government contractors was set to take effect, a federal court in Texas enjoined implementation of the requirements across the country. The violations are analyzed and taken into consideration by the agencies in awarding contracts.

Government

The Energy Law

JULY 28, 2017

Property modifications, including altering the present timber management practices, could return the land to suitable frog habitat but the landowners do not intent to take these steps and the government concedes it cannot compel them to do so. But the frog’s case has proven to have legs and may endure longer than the species itself.

Casing

The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The draft revision updates and expands on EPA’s original guidance issued in 2016. In its 2016 guidance, EPA defined “EJ concern” as: the actual or potential lack of fair treatment or meaningful involvement of minority populations, low-income populations, tribes, and indigenous peoples in the development, implementation. EJ Concerns.”

E&A

Energy Outlook Advisors

MAY 14, 2025

These developments forced policymakers in oil-producing US states such as Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas to intervene to ration oil production with the support of the Federal government. The US government replaced the old system with a communist idea: full-price controls of energy sources! They were managing the market!

Management

The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2017

On November 10, 2016, Judge Ann Aiken, a federal district judge in Oregon, issued a remarkable environmental law decision in which she found that a climate system “capable of sustaining human life” is a fundamental constitutional right. [1] 1] Juliana v. Plaintiffs have adequately alleged infringement of a fundamental right. [13]

Casing

Oil & Gas 360º

JUNE 3, 2025

Quite the reverse, in fact, with enormous profits available from the failures of the enormously well-flagged and exceptionally predictable strategy of the 2014-2016 and 2020 Oil Price Wars — launched by the Kingdom with the intention of destroying or disabling the U.S. according to IMF figures.

Oil

McKinsey

JUNE 24, 2025

As an example, when the United States hiked tariffs on washing machines from China in 2016, US imports fell by $650 million, but within a year, an $800 million increase in imports from ramped-up production in Thailand and Vietnam more than compensated. Of course, governments themselves may also shift the trade landscape over time.

Exploration and Production

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In 2016, with EPA approval, Louisiana finalized its SIP revisions eliminating provisions that allowed for automatic and discretionary exemptions from emission limitations during startup, shutdown, maintenance, and malfunctions. at 33967-68. 2020 SSM SIP Policy Memorandum.

Shutdown

SmartBrief

MARCH 26, 2025

Another past ASCE president, Norma Jean Mattei, called ports a poster child for good behavior, considering many private port owners started heavily investing in upgrades after the expansion of the Panama Canal became operational in 2016. As the pandemic strained global supply chains, the federal government chipped in, too.

IT

SmartBrief

MARCH 17, 2025

I am seeing a lot of data governance discussions on how to control and manage the data more effectively. IBM made quantum computing available on IBM cloud in 2016, and now Google began breaking barriers with its quantum supremacy in 2019 and it is not slowing down. Martin: Data protection across diverse environments.

Management

McKinsey

JUNE 20, 2025

An early example of AI’s ability to generate ideas that a human would not have considered occurred in March 2016. They include aligning strategy; building the right talent and organizational models; agile delivery, adoption, and scaling; and change management and governance. Provocatively framed, AI can be more creative than humans.

Exploration and Production

McKinsey

JUNE 17, 2025

These estimates reflect long term trends in productivity and labor force growth and incorporate recent trends in private consumption, government spending, and business investment. 2 Harvard University Press Blog, “Globalization’s three unbundlings,” blog entry by Richard Baldwin, November 29, 2016. percent in China, 1.7

Exploration and Production