Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The post INEOS to Receive LNG from Sempra’s Texas Development appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. It is among several large supply deals as the first phase of the Port Arthur project looks to get off the ground.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

BridgestoneAmericas has invested $60 million to expand its Bridgestone Bandag, LLC manufacturing plant in Abilene, Texas. The post Bridgestone Expands Texas Manufacturing Plant, Increase Availability of Recycled Tires appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Home Depot announced that 100 MW of solar energy purchased from National Grid Renewables at its solar and storage project in Denton County, Texas. The post The Home Depot Purchases 100 MW of Energy from Texas Solar Farm appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A recent well blow-out in West Texas highlights the challenges of finding and plugging thousands of wells across the state. By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News and Carlos Nogueras, Texas Tribune IMPERIAL, Texas—Mounds of dirt towered over Bill Wight, who stared helplessly at the piles that had once been pasture for his cattle.

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Energy & the Law

JANUARY 8, 2024

Contacted at his seaside villa, Captain Renault said he was shocked that Elsie and Adrian Opiela are asking the Texas Supreme Court to review questions surrounding the Railroad Commission’s approval of a drilling permit for a Production Sharing Agreement well. There is no functional distinction between pooling and PSA/allocation wells.

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Yale E360

APRIL 11, 2023

Now, as he pushes oil and gas companies and other industries to clean up their operations, he finds the state of Texas standing in the way. Christian Menefee, the first Black person to serve as Harris County Attorney, grew up in Houston’s notoriously polluted Fifth Ward. Read more on E360 →

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The post Linde to Power OCI’s Texas Plant with $1.8 This complex will be integrated into Linde's Gulf Coast industrial gas infrastructure and will supply clean hydrogen and nitrogen to OCI's blue ammonia plant. Billion Clean Hydrogen Investment appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 6, 2023

The post Ørsted and Google Partner to Bring Low-Cost Renewable Energy to Texas appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. The recently signed power purchase agreement between Google and Ørsted marks their first collaboration in the United States and second worldwide.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 23, 2023

Co-author Kamal Omar* Texas, famously, does not tax individuals’ income, but it does impose franchise taxes on “taxable entities”, such as limited liability companies. Hegar , a Texas court addressed how Hibernia, a non-taxable entity under federal law, is taxable under Texas law. In Hibernia Energy LLC v.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 22, 2024

By Dylan Baddour Two consecutive summers of brutal heat and drought have left some parts of Texas with notably low water supplies going into 2024. Some areas are starting the year with low water reserves, and forecasters don’t expect substantial relief from the weather.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 15, 2024

In a small Texas city, officials say land previously treated with a prescribed burn stopped the Windy Deuce Fire from entering neighborhoods. But the practice of intentionally burning excess vegetation has faced opposition from some private landowners.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 14, 2023

The post BAES Infrastructure and Black & Veatch Complete Central Texas Solar Projects appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Commercial operations to begin in April, propelling decarbonization as clean energy accelerates.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 12, 2023

The Austin Court of Appeals has ruled in Texas Railroad Commission et al v. The court concluded that a permit for horizontal drilling under a PSA is not pooling under Texas law and thus the Opiela lease’s anti-pooling clause was not implicated. We reported on the result in the trial court. Here are some highlights of the appeal.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 25, 2022

In Yates , the Texas Supreme Court held that Texas Property Code Section 5.029 permitted original parties to a conveyance to execute a correction deed without notice to or joinder of the current owners when the original grantees no longer owned the property. To have all powers conferred under the Texas Trust Act, and.

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Endangered Species Law

APRIL 26, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and Center for Biological Diversity entered into a settlement agreement wherein the Service agreed to submit to the Federal Register final listing decisions on the following six mussel species no later than May 23, 2024: Texas fatmucket ( Lampsilis bracteate ); Guadalupe fatmucket ( Lampsilis bergmanni ); Texas fawnsfoot (..)

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Energy & the Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Texas Railroad Commission objected, asserting that each operator of a pipeline system must obtain a permit from the Commission, to be renewed annually; Dodson Prairie, one of the receivership entities, did not possess a T-4 Permit to operate the pipeline; and the pipeline was not part of the receivership estate.

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Energy & the Law

MAY 2, 2023

t he Supreme Court of Texas resolved the chaos created by conflicting dispute resolution regimes in three contracts for ownership and operation of an offshore unit and gathering system. Interested in the history of Texas, federal and other state court decisions on this subject? In TotalEnergies E&P USA, Inc. MP Gulf of Mexico LLC.

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Energy & the Law

JANUARY 18, 2023

ConocoPhillips Company is that in Texas a NPRI holder may not diminish his rights by ratifying pooling of an oil and gas lease unless there are provisions explicitly purporting to do so. Co-author Brittany Blakey. The takeaway from Hahn v. Kenneth and brother George each owned ½ of the surface estate of a tract and ¼ of the mineral estate.

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Energy & the Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

TOMORROW, THE COURT’S CONSIDERATION OF TEXAS LAW ON SUBSURFACE TRESPASS BY INJECTED SALTWATER. The court recognized that reservoir simulations have been used in the industry and litigation for decades and are generally accepted as valid in the relevant scientific community. Your musical interlude , a query from the appellant.

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Scientific American

JUNE 26, 2023

Solar power has been crucial to keeping the power on in Texas while the state experiences a major heat wave, even as some politicians have attempted to make it more difficult to connect renewable energy to the grid

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Energy & the Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

SWEPI, LP SWEPI’s motion for summary judgment alleged that Iskandia presented no evidence of one or more elements of its trespass claim, noting that the Supreme Court of Texas has never recognized a cause of action for trespass based on deep subsurface water migration (to which some might respond, not yet).

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JUNE 2, 2023

1776 Energy Partners LLC presented a recurring question faced by Texas oil and gas producers: When can proceeds of production be withheld by the operator without liability for interest? Freeeport-McMoRan Oil and Gas, LLC and Ovintiv USA Inc.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

trillion Texas economy, the second largest state economy and ninth largest in the world, is entirely dependent on access to adequate supplies of water. Wastewater from fracking is becoming a problem in Texas. What To Do About Texas’ Wastewater Problem? The annual $1.89 Photo © Brian Lehmann / Circle of Blue.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 24, 2022

The post Chevron Adds Carbon Capture Projects in California, Texas appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Chevron is pursuing several carbon capture and storage projects as it looks to lower its emissions impacts.

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MARCH 1, 2023

on remand from the Texas Supreme Court, is the third round of a boundary dispute between mineral lessees in Irion County. Co-author Travis Nadilini Ellison v. Three Rivers Acquisition LLC et al. , For the history of Ms.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 21, 2022

If you administer or advise on master service agreements, or for that matter any other contract that requires written notice, this post by my Gray Reed partner Joe Virene is essential reading: Texas Supreme Court: Actual Notice Does Not Satisfy Written Notice Requirement.

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APRIL 19, 2021

Texas lien law in some cases does not require the filing of a financing statement for priority perfection. In contrast, Oklahoma Producers prevailed because the Oklahoma Lien Act in 2010 cured a defect still present in the Texas statute. 3794 which, if passed, would replace Section 9.343 with the “Texas First Purchaser Lien Act.”.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 4, 2024

A nuclear power plant hasn’t been built in Texas in decades because of cost and public fears of a major accident. Now the governor wants to find out if smaller reactors could meet the state’s growing need for on-demand power.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 1, 2022

It was jurisprudential Groundhog Day as the Supreme Court of Texas handed down Nettye Engler Energy v. Texas Crude Energy. Bluestone Natural Resources , another in a series of postproduction cost disputes, only two days after Puxsutawney Phil peeked out of his cozy burrow to pronounce six more weeks of winter. The takeaway.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 3, 2024

Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source.

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In West Texas Earthquake Observations, Implications for the Oil and Gas Industry , Scott Pinsonnault and John Shepherd of Ankura Consulting summarize the evolving situation and the Texas Railroad Commission’s response. They also present a series of initial questions that will need to be answered.

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Scientific American

MARCH 16, 2023

Texas education officials adopted changes to internal guidance on textbooks that could steer schools to buy books that misinform students about global warming

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Winner: Stability of Texas titles. This is a legislative “fix”, on the second try, to the 2018 Texas Supreme Court decision in ConocoPhillips et al v. SB 2154 requires that members of the Public Utilities Commission be residents of Texas. The Texas Tribune can explain it better than I. Loser: Royalty owners.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 16, 2023

Sheppard et al, the Supreme Court of Texas construed what it referred to as a “bespoke” and “highly unique” royalty clause in several oil and gas leases to prohibit the producers from deducting out of the lessor’s royalty post-production costs incurred downstream of the point of sale to unaffiliated third parties.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 31, 2023

It depends on context, says the Supreme Court of Texas in Finley Resources Inc. The plain, ordinary, and generally accepted meaning of a word doesn’t mean “anything goes”. Headington Royalty Inc. , a dispute over the meaning of “predecessors”. For the underlying facts see our post on the court of appeals decision.

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APRIL 22, 2021

Texas will add 10 gigawatts of utility-scale solar power in the next two years, meaning it will soon rival California as the state with the most large-scale solar power, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Read more on E360 ?.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Texas Supreme Court has granted petition for review of a 2019 decision in Dyer et al v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. Co-author Brittany Blakey.

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