Angela Neville

March 07, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett recently dealt with a patent feud over drilling technology involving a casing centralizer used in wellbores and ruled that the patent was invalid.

By Angela Neville

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March 07, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Represented by the firm of Steptoe & Johnson, Rex Energy recently entered into an agreement with Benefit Street Partners, which was advised by the firm of Sidley Austin, to jointly develop oil and gas wells in the Moraine East and Warrior North areas in Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively.

By Angela Neville

5 minute read

March 03, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Just a week before their case involving a $50 million insurance dispute was to be heard by the Texas Supreme Court, Cameron International Corp. and Liberty Insurance Underwriters reached an agreement.

By Angela Neville

3 minute read

March 02, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are now tangling over the rule that the EPA recently issued to take the place of the state's proposed revision to its state implementation plan for cutting regional haze.

By Angela Neville

3 minute read

March 01, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

In their appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit, Arkansas landowners are pushing to resurrect a class action against Texas-based ExxonMobil Pipeline Co., and other Exxon affiliates, pertaining to the rupture of the Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower, Arkansas, that occurred in 2013.

By Angela Neville

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February 29, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, recently spoke at the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association Convention in San Antonio and discussed how the Texas Legislature intends to look at several critical issues related to the battered energy sector once the legislative session begins in January.

By Angela Neville

5 minute read

February 26, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

A BP well site leader, Robert Kaluza, was acquitted on a charge that he was negligent in interpreting a critical test and that his actions contributed to the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Angela Neville

3 minute read

February 26, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Chesapeake Energy Corp. recently entered an agreement to sell its remaining natural gas-heavy property in the Western Anadarko Basin for $385 million to FourPoint Energy, a privately held exploration and production company based in Denver.

By Angela Neville

4 minute read

February 24, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

Houston-based Vinson & Elkins recently advised Rice Energy Inc. in a completed $375 million equity investment by EIG Global Energy Partners, which was advised by attorneys from Kirkland & Ellis, into Rice Midstream Holdings (RMH) in exchange for $375 million of Series B Units in RMH and common units.

By Angela Neville

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February 22, 2016 | Texas Lawyer

"The professional fees in the Energy Future Holdings' bankruptcy are probably now in the range of approximately $300 million," according to Katherine Stadler, a shareholder with the Madison-based firm Godfrey & Kahn and a member of the fee committee in Energy Future Holdings' Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

By Angela Neville

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