CNBC: Energy

JUNE 23, 2025

The worst-case scenario for markets would occur if Iran were to close the Strait, which is unlikely, said Marko Papic, chief strategist at GeoMacro Strategy. Skip Navigation Markets Pre-Markets U.S. strikes have been less aggressive, especially relative to just over a week ago when Israel launched airstrikes against Iran.

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CNBC: Energy

JULY 11, 2025

With President Donald Trump in the White House, the agency has reversed course on several crypto enforcement actions, dropping cases against major players like Coinbase and Binance and signaling a more permissive stance. Skip Navigation Markets Pre-Markets U.S.

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CNBC: Energy

JUNE 13, 2025

That is not the case. Skip Navigation Markets Pre-Markets U.S. When we wrote Wednesday about Meta investing nearly $15 billion to take a 49% stake in Scale AI, we were under the impression that Wang would join Meta's new "superintelligence" unit on top of his duties at the data-labeling startup.

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CNBC: Energy

JUNE 11, 2025

Unlike other celebrity defendants whose cases were dismissed, O’Neal remained entangled after a lengthy effort to serve him legal papers. Skip Navigation Markets Pre-Markets U.S. Plaintiffs allege O’Neal helped promote unregistered securities by presenting FTX as a safe and legitimate platform at events and on social media.

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The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2021

Now the case is before the Texas Supreme Court, with a recently submitted amicus brief containing the argument that could turn the tides back in the lessees’ favor. The lessors won in the trial court; the court of appeals affirmed. Factual Background and Issue. Accordingly, the lessees paid 1/5th of the gross proceeds.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2022

QEP owned a mineral lease cover­ing Plaintiffs’ property, but because it wanted to transport off-site gas across their property, QEP also ob­tained a pipeline servitude across Plaintiffs’ land. This case was handled by Paul Adkins of Liskow’s Baton Rouge office. Read the opinion here.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2022

QEP owned a mineral lease cover­ing Plaintiffs’ property, but because it wanted to transport off-site gas across their property, QEP also ob­tained a pipeline servitude across Plaintiffs’ land. This case was handled by Paul Adkins of Liskow’s Baton Rouge office. Read the opinion here.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 29, 2021

QEP Energy Company , the Western District of Louisiana rejected, for the second time in this case, Plaintiffs’ claims seeking a disgorgement of QEP’s profits. This case was handled by Paul Adkins of Liskow’s Baton Rouge office. A copy of the district court’s opinion can be found here. Read the opinion here.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

On December 4, 2023, in Marquette Transportation Co. 1 the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that state law—and specifically in this case, Louisiana law—governs the applicable negligence standard and burden of proof for a pilot’s error. Among the many claims asserted between the parties, Marquette Transportation Co.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 31, 2020

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 Texas Supreme Court issued an opinion today in Energy Transfer Partners, L.P

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The Energy Law

APRIL 17, 2019

The contracts provided that the sales price of the crude oil was based on index pricing, less an amount sometimes designated as a “transportation differential” or simply as a deduction. The Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, faced with numerous cases raising this same issue, heard a “test case” involving Avanti Exploration, LLC.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 10, 2020

On October 20, 2017, Bouchard Transportation’s ATB BUSTER BOUCHARD/B. 255 suffered an explosion and fire while transporting roughly 2,000 barrels of oil off Port Aransas, Texas. Two crewmembers perished as a result of the casualty. 2114) (the “SPA”). Riverboat Services of Indiana, Inc., 451 F.3d 3d 424 , 444 (7th Cir.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this case, PennEast sought to exercise the federal eminent domain power bestowed upon it by the Natural Gas Act (NGA). Under the NGA, FERC confers eminent domain authority to private entities through issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity to certain authorized entities, including interstate natural gas transporters.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2023

Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, it is expressly provided that the terms of this paragraph shall be controlling over the provisions of Paragraph 3 of this lease to the contrary and this paragraph shall not be treated as surplusage despite the holding in the cases styled “Heritage Resources, Inc. NationsBank”, 939 S.W.2d

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The Energy Law

MARCH 29, 2021

QEP Energy Company , the Western District of Louisiana rejected, for the second time in this case, Plaintiffs’ claims seeking a disgorgement of QEP’s profits. This case was handled by Paul Adkins of Liskow’s Baton Rouge office. A copy of the district court’s opinion can be found here. Read the opinion here.

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The Energy Law

MAY 26, 2023

The Fifth Circuit agreed with the lower court that state statutes and case law characterize SRA-L as an arm of the state; but caveated that the factor was restricted and “given the inconsistent descriptions in the same statutes and the lack of a more-definite characterization in either statute or case law.” [7]

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2021, an investor installed new carbon capture equipment at the plant to create a single process train for capturing, processing, and preparing to transport the carbon dioxide previously released into the atmosphere.

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The Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Several years ago, the definition of Qualified Agreement Vessels was expanded to include the short sea transportation trade. By way of background, originally, only vessels operating in the United States foreign, Great Lakes, noncontiguous domestic, or in the fisheries of the United States could be constructed or improved under the program.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

COG also entered into surface use compensation agreements and right-of-way agreements to facilitate its use of the surface when it transported products and waste from the property. That being the case, Justice Palafox did not believe the regulations had any role in determining the ownership of produced water.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In Texas, for example, case law has not yet settled critical questions regarding real property rights for capture, injection, and storage such as the issue of who owns the rights to lease subsurface pore space for carbon storage when the mineral and surface estates have been severed. 1] [link] [2] Nigel Bankes, Jenette Poschwatta & E.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2020

With the prevalence of cases involving royalty disputes in Texas, the state’s Supreme Court has never hesitated to address these issues. Heritage Resources is the underlying case that must be understood to decipher the Supreme Court’s logic as it continues to rectify the numerous creative royalty provisions across Texas today.

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CNBC: Energy

JUNE 26, 2025

"While it is possible to make a case for a deal on the scale it would provide in oil and gas, and perhaps on valuation grounds, any integration would be far from straightforward, given the companies' different cultures and the likely job losses, which could well have proven politically sensitive," Mould told CNBC by email.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

s Transportation, LLC , —- So.3d This case was handled by Paul Adkins in Liskow’s Baton Rouge office. The issue of whether a company is an independent contractor of an E & P company is frequently litigated in oilfield injury accidents, as the injured worker searches for multiple sources of possible recovery. In McDaniel v R.J.’s

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

s Transportation, LLC , —- So.3d This case was handled by Paul Adkins in Liskow’s Baton Rouge office. The issue of whether a company is an independent contractor of an E & P company is frequently litigated in oilfield injury accidents, as the injured worker searches for multiple sources of possible recovery.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 13, 2017

Marquette Transportation Company, L.L.C. , These types of damages, however, have long been prohibited under the general maritime law (the default body of federal common law governing maritime cases) under the familiar Robins Dry Dock rule. In Settoon Towing, L.L.C. 16-30459 (5th Cir.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In Texas, for example, case law has not yet settled critical questions regarding real property rights for capture, injection, and storage such as the issue of who owns the rights to lease subsurface pore space for carbon storage when the mineral and surface estates have been severed.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When royalties are valued “at the well,” royalties must be calculated based on either comparable sales or, when comparable sales are not readily available (which is often the case), by subtracting the post-production costs incurred to prepare production for sale from the proceeds received by the lessee from the sale of that production.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Case: United States v. The clear takeaway from this case is that Congress (and the courts) have gone to great lengths to impose liability on the “responsible party” under OPA ’90. [1] American Commercial Lines, L.L.C. , 16-31150, F.3d 3d (5th Cir.

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Drillers

MARCH 19, 2020

To apply for the most menial job on a platform, you need to be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or an equivalent education certificate. Your employer also has the contact details of your family in case of an emergency. Then pull that oil and gas out of the ground and transport it).

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

While the Court is no stranger to interpreting (and often muddling) the familiar royalty clause interpretation questions surrounding the first issue, in a case of first impression, the Court also analyzed the breadth of a lease’s free-use clause. BlueStone Nat.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

While the Court is no stranger to interpreting (and often muddling) the familiar royalty clause interpretation questions surrounding the first issue, in a case of first impression, the Court also analyzed the breadth of a lease’s free-use clause. BlueStone Nat.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

While the Court is no stranger to interpreting (and often muddling) the familiar royalty clause interpretation questions surrounding the first issue, in a case of first impression, the Court also analyzed the breadth of a lease’s free-use clause. Factual and Procedural Background. BlueStone Nat.

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Drillers

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Canadian oil sands are a case in point. However, there is a cost issue to consider, and it is a significant issue, including capture and transportation costs. EOR methods tend to be costly, but they can increase the amount of oil produced from a reservoir to as much as 75%.

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CNBC: Energy

JUNE 21, 2025

There have been eight cases of regime change in major oil producing countries since 1979, according to JPMorgan. Skip Navigation Markets Pre-Markets U.S.

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SmartBrief

MARCH 26, 2025

chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said the House will mark up its surface transportation reauthorization bill this fall and have it on the House floor before the end of the year. Complementing this, Phillips made the case for expanding private investment in U.S. Sam Graves, R-Mo., infrastructure.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

Background The Keystone Pipeline is a system of petroleum pipelines designed to transport crude oil from fields in Alberta, Canada and ultimately terminating at refineries on the U.S The outcome of this case could have a significant impact on his strategy going forward. [1] Constitution. Gulf Coast. 2] Texas, et al. 2] Texas, et al.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2021

The Keystone Pipeline is a system of petroleum pipelines designed to transport crude oil from fields in Alberta, Canada and ultimately terminating at refineries on the U.S The outcome of this case could have a significant impact on his strategy going forward. [1] Constitution. Background. Gulf Coast. 2] Texas, et al. 2] Texas, et al.

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