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Texas Lawyer

O&G Leaseholders Win Appeal in Lease Dispute Involving Tribal Land

Successful bidders, including Houston-based Schlumberger, in a 2007 auction of Bakken Shale oil and gas rights conducted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and related to tribal land, recently won in an appeal before the Eighth Circuit. The law firm of Baker Botts represented the leaseholders in the appeal.
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The Legal Intelligencer

A Possible Blueprint for Landowners Challenging Pipeline Companies

Landowners in Kentucky may be emboldened by a recent decision by the Kentucky Court of Appeals that rejected an attempt by Bluegrass Pipeline Co. to obtain public utility status that would allow it to acquire easements pursuant to eminent domain.
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Man Arrested for Alleged $4.5 Million O&G Ponzi Scheme

Round Rock businessman William Allen Risinger was recently indicted and arrested in Austin on allegations that he collected approximately $4.5 million from an oil and gas Ponzi scheme that he operated.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Deal Limits Insurance Coverage Duty Related to Oil Field Deaths

The Fifth Circuit's recent ruling concerns a tragic event in 2010 in which a fire at a Texas oil well owned by Endeavor Energy Resources killed two men employed by Basic Energy Services.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

$62 Million Settlement in 2010 Pipeline Oil Spill

Houston-based Enbridge Energy's pipeline ruptured in 2010, resulting in the accidental release of 800,000 gallons of oil into the Talmadge Creek and Kalamazoo River in Michigan. The incident was one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history. Fast-forward almost five years later, and the company has finally entered into a $62 million settlement with the parties affected by the huge spill.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Alaska Wilderness League v. Jewell

5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Is Energy Management the Next Big Thing in Business?

Energy management is the new black for corporate innovation, and it's likely to reach the multitrillion-dollar level.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Challenge to Proposed Coal Pollution Rule Is Dismissed

A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a pair of high-profile lawsuits challenging the Obama administration's sweeping plan to address climate change, saying it's too early to challenge a proposed rule that isn't yet final.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

ETP to Spend $1.5 Billion on Natural Gas Treatment Project in Pennsylvania

Energy Transfer Partners plans to spend approximately $1.5 billion on its new Revolution Project in Pennsylvania. It has entered into long-term gas gathering, processing and fractionation agreements with EdgeMarc Energy, an oil and gas company that is actively engaged in drilling Marcellus and Burkett shale wells in Butler County, Pennsylvania
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

USA v. Allen

Specific Knowledge of Federal Ownership Not Needed for 18 USC §1855 Violation
2 minute read

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