AWS: Energy (Oil & Gas)

MARCH 19, 2025

We explore how this generative AI powered tool has significantly enhanced SunRuns cloud operations and streamlined their development processes. The challenge SunRun sought to address two primary challenges: Improving development velocity: SunRun needed to significantly boost the productivity of their developer and engineering teams.

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The Energy Law

MAY 4, 2023

RUE grants are authorizations from BOEM to use a portion of the seabed not encompassed by the holder’s lease to construct, modify, or maintain platforms, artificial islands, facilities, installations, and other devices that support exploration, development, or production of oil and gas or other energy resources from another lease.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2020

Enterprise Products Partners, L.P., a case previously featured on the Blog. This case began in 2011 when ETP and Enterprise explored the possibility of partnering to modify and extend, or construct anew, a pipeline to transport oil southbound from Cushing, Oklahoma. The jury agreed, awarding more than $500 million to ETP.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 20, 2012

One important change is how the new definition of “associated equipment” modifies the aggregation rule for Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP), which in turn modifies the applicability of the “major source” definition for oilfield operations, in particular as it applies to oil and gas wells, tanks and glycol dehydrators. 7412 (n)(4)(A).Section

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Producer's Edge

APRIL 22, 2025

While the industry continues to explore recycling technologies and beneficial reuse applications, economic and technical barriers have limited widespread adoption. Consequently, over 80% of Texas produced water still finds its way into saltwater disposal wells—a critical infrastructure network that enables continued production.

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Producer's Edge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Texas Business Courts will potentially impact a wide range of cases, from high-value contract disputes to intricate corporate governance issues. What potential pros and cons may arise from submitting a case to the new Business Courts? How might existing agreements and future contracts be affected by this new forum?

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AWS: Energy (Oil & Gas)

JANUARY 6, 2025

Overview The combination of AWS generative AI, S&P Global Enterprise Data Management (EDM) for Energy, and Esri ArcGIS tools orchestrates a harmonious symphony in subsurface exploration workflows within the energy sector. The EDM for Energy workflow also supports data exploration and analysis capabilities.

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Producer's Edge

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A recent SWD failure case dives into critical questions of proximate cause and explores whether the reasonable prudent operator defense may shield against surface damage claims. In this case, Lee v. Investigation revealed that there was severe degradation of the well’s tubing and casing. Memorial Prod.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Chesapeake Exploration Limited Partnership , XOG sought an interpretation of the retained acreage clause contained in an assignment to Chesapeake of XOG’s lease interests in four oil and gas leases collectively covering 1,625 acres. In this case, Chesapeake had chosen not to designate a full proration unit (i.e.,

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Navigate Power

APRIL 26, 2025

Local energy production offers businesses unprecedented control over their energy resources. Decentralized energy production moves away from large power plants and toward localized facilities, offering greater energy independence. These systems range from small rooftop solar installations to larger commercial microgrid systems.

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The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

These three conditions became in essence EPA’s definition of “contaminated stormwater” for purposes of the Act. Alternatively, in some cases, individual permits may be needed. The 1987 amendments to the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) added language creating a permitting exemption for uncontaminated runoff from Oil and Gas operations.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 2, 2020

climate change litigation, as these cases continue to grow in number. Moreover, in addition to climate change litigation, the Supreme Court’s review could have a significant impact on Louisiana’s coastal erosion litigation, where energy companies have asserted similar arguments when removing those 42 cases.

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Oil and Gas Investments

APRIL 22, 2025

Two of the biggest are juniors who bought their mines when gold was higher–but interest in gold stocks was definitely not. the first case, Heliostar Mining (HSTR TSXv) purchased two mines for under $300 per producing ounce. In the second case, Mako Mining (MKO TSXv) bought a producing mine for under $100 per producing ounce.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 10, 2017

In these cases, when designing the drilling and earning transaction, consider packaging one or more conventional formations with an unconventional shale formation to create a designated “earning zone”. Oil and gas leases typically provide that production from a well in “paying quantities” will hold the lease beyond its primary term.

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McKinsey

JUNE 24, 2025

If they cannot, firms might instead reduce purchases, replace imported products with something similar, or ramp up domestic production. Major products like laptops, smartphones, and toys are harder to rearrange. Shifts across many thousands of products will reshape the geometry of global trade. Granularity is key.

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McKinsey

JULY 1, 2025

Marnix van Stiphout: It took us quite a bit of time to progress from analyzing many different ideas into a decision at the board level, where we could say definitively that these are the five things we’re going to do. McKinsey: How did you ensure a focus on your gen AI program? That allowed us to go full throttle in those areas.

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McKinsey

JUNE 23, 2025

But then we realized there are edge cases and other issues that must be addressed. This opens the door to entirely new business models: from in-vehicle entertainment and productivity platforms to personalized services and commerce. They will be able to deal with edge cases that you can’t even imagine. We started MOIA in 2016.

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Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

APRIL 28, 2025

crude production, which could easily push crude prices lowerinto this second quarter of 2025, as supply would likely then outpace demand. Exploration and production companies (E&Ps) continued to focus on healthy balance sheets and capital discipline, providing buyers with liquidity and access to public high-yield debt at reasonable rates.

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McKinsey

JUNE 17, 2025

Explore MGI research on Geopolitics and the Geometry of Global Trade About that grinding sound you’ve been hearing: Not to alarm you, but that’s the tectonic plates of global trade shifting. 4 There is no single cross-country definition of what constitutes a “critical” product. Annual GDP growth is taken to be 3.6

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