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Republicans move to cut U.S. funding for IEA

Oil & Gas 360º

The Committee finds that the Agency has abandoned objectivity in the critical energy-supply information it produces and, instead, has pursued politicized information to support climate policy advocacy,” according to the report. Earlier this month, U.S.

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Count It a Successful Session

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

This includes maintaining comprehensive records, documenting the nature and source of materials, and ensuring compliance with strict acquisition protocols. House Bill 500 served as this session’s supplemental bill and included $100 million to plug abandoned oil wells For additional information, go to www.pbpa.info.

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Inadvertent Disclosure of Privileged Electronic Documents Constitutes Waiver of Privilege

The Energy Law

Despite the plaintiff’s cooperation, defendants abandoned their plans to effectuate such an agreement and decided to conduct a document by document privilege review. The plaintiff then filed a motion seeking a ruling that any privilege associated with the electronic documents had been waived. 2d __, 2008 WL 2221841 (D.Md.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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Renewable Energy Efforts Highlighted in Draft Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Louisiana

The Energy Law

This document contains proposed strategies and specific actions across several priority areas to be considered in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Actions under strategy 9 center around drafting new legislation to increase the plugging of abandoned and orphaned wells. The period for public comment ends on October 8 th.

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Department of Interior Proposes New Financial Assurance and Decommissioning Regulations

The Energy Law

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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Improving Plugging and Abandonment Procedures

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

How Abandoned Wells Hurt the Oil and Gas Industrys Image One of the most visible and negative images involves plugged wells that are leaking and flowing. Their sub-surface issues are harder to document but can be even more damaging. million orphan/abandoned wells, with Texas alone exceeding 150,000all of which need plugging.