Oil & Gas E-Report

Inside the Latest Issue:

• Iowa Federal Court Holds That Local Ordinance Restricting CO2 Pipelines Was Preempted
• EPA Grants Primacy to Louisiana for Class VI Wells
• Sixth Circuit Affirms Dismissal for Noncompliance with Lease’s Condition Precedent of Pre-suit Notification
• Ohio’s Seventh Appellate District “Breaks the Seal” and Issues First Decision Determining Whether a Grant or Reservation Created a Fixed or Floating Royalty Interest
• Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment for Leaseholder-Defendant
• Fifth Circuit Asks the Texas Supreme Court to Determine Whether Off-Lease Fuel May be Deducted from Royalties Valued at the Well
• Sonda Decision: The Fourth Circuit Sends Motion to Dismiss Challenge to West Virginia Pooling Act Back to Federal Court
• 11 Key Elements of New EPA Rule Regulating Methane and VOC Emissions

The Oil & Gas E-Report is a quarterly newsletter that began in 2018. It contains articles of current interest to oil and gas practitioners and is assembled by a geographically diverse group of editors from private practice, in-house, and academia. This e-publication is the successor to IEL’s print publication, the Oil and Gas Reporter, which was published from 1952-2017.

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

• Keith B. Hall, LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

Editors

• David Ammons, Haynes and Boone, LLP
• Ken Bullock, Frost Brown Todd LLP
• Marcella Burke, Burke Law Group
• Reagan L. Butts, Mewbourne Oil Company
• Kevin G. Corcoran, Spencer Fane LLP
• Edward Duhé, Exxon Mobil Corporation
• Sharon Flanery, Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
• Urs Broderick Furrer, Harriton & Furrer, LLP
• Drew Gann, McGuireWoods LLP
• Michael Gray, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
• Kara Herrnstein, Bricker Graydon LLP
• John T. Kalmbach, Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway
• Kenneth Klemm, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
• Daniel McClure, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
• John Morrison, Crowley Fleck PLLP
• Barclay Nicholson, Sheppard Mullin
• Jeffrey Oliver, Baker Botts L.L.P.
• Patrick S. Ottinger, Ottinger Hebert, L.L.C.
• Diana S. Prulhiere, Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
• Niki Roberts, Hogan Lovells US LLP
• C. Brannon Robertson, Brannon Robertson Law Firm PLLC
• Gregory D. Russell, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
• David E. Sharp, FCIArb, Law Offices of David E. Sharp P.L.L.C.
• Chauntelle R. Wood White, Baker Botts L.L.P.

Please forward any comments, submissions, or suggestions to any of the IEL’s Deputy Director, Vickie Adams at vadams@cailaw.org.