Producer's Edge

JUNE 2, 2025

This particular species of lease washouts is based on two recent cases from the El Paso Court of Appeals – Cimarex Energy Co. Anadarko E & P Onshore, LLC, 676 S.W.3d Anadarko E& P Onshore, LLC, no. In a similar case, Cromwell v. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., 3d 73, 93 (Tex. 3d 860 (Tex. 23-0297, slip op.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Valero Refining Meraux, LLC , 2022-00469 (La. On January 27, 2023, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a ruling involving claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress (“NIED”) absent physical damage. In Spencer v. 1/27/23), — So.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2022

11, 2022), provides further guidance on what must be contained in correspondence from parties making demand on an operator under La. 11, 2022), provides further guidance on what must be contained in correspondence from parties making demand on an operator under La. Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:103.1 Kelly Land Company, L.L.C.

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Vorys Energy

MARCH 24, 2022

On March 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio once again addressed the level of diligence a surface owner must exercise in attempting to identify and locate holders of a severed mineral interest under the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act. E), they did not search the public records of the county where the holder was said to have resided.

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Vorys Energy

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

On February 1, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s decision in Zehentbauer Family Land, LP, et al. TotalEnergies E&P USA, Inc, et al. Moreover, the court observed that, as a consequence, “Plaintiffs’ royalties are based on those gross proceeds paid to the Lessee.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2022

Today, on March 31, 2022, the Western District of Louisiana reversed that ruling and applied the same rationale to a pending motion for partial dismissal in one of the putative class actions, Self v. Earlier information about this case can be found here. *In BPX Operating Co., Johnson Ruling Reversing Prior PPC Ruling.

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Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

The advantage for minerals firms is that they have no investment in equipment or drilling costs, as do E&Ps. The challenge is that they must still do geological research on formations, and then predict where the E&P is planning to drill. Click here to listen to the Audio verison of this story!

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

On December 16, 2022, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023 which contains a material expansion of the United States Maritime Administration’s Capital Construction Fund Program. The Capital Construction Fund (“CCF”) program is designed to encourage owners of U.S. flagged vessels by offering tax incentives to do so.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On September 14, 2022, the 19 th Judicial District Court revoked air permits issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) under Louisiana’s Prevention and Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) regulations [1] for a Formosa Plastics facility (“FG LA”) planned to be built in St. In the seminal case Save Ourselves, Inc.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

maritime law experienced two significant changes on December 23, 2022—one pertaining to liability for oil pollution, the other concerning small passenger vessels. First, the Coast Guard announced [1] increases to the liability limits in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (“OPA”). [2] 6] The last CPI adjustment occurred in 2019.

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Novi

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The case for change is clear. Bhattacharyya and Vyas (2022) applied random forest models in the Bakken and achieved forecast accuracy comparable to reservoir simulation but in a fraction of the time. However, as we outlined in a previous post, Type Curves Are Dead , this approach has critical limitations. In a study by Li et al.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 13, 2022

While the major questions doctrine has been cited in a wide variety of cases addressing both criminal and civil topics, its recent use in the high-profile environmental law case of Louisiana v. Recent developments in the challenge to an executive order from the Biden Administration in Louisiana v. The plaintiff states in Louisiana v.

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McKinsey

JUNE 30, 2025

General-purpose robotics funding grew fivefold from 2022 to 2024, surpassing $1 billion in annual investment, with leading start-ups such as Figure AI, Skild AI, and Agility Robotics raising hundreds of millions of dollars. Patent filings have also surged, with a 40 percent CAGR in volume since 2022. Why the excitement?

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