Produced Water, Other Brines, and the Substances in Them—Who Has the Right?
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Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
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Overview
In the last several years, there has been an increased interest in putting produced water to beneficial use. Now, there also is a growing interest in extracting lithium or other valuable substances from produced water or other brine pumped from the subsurface. This gives rise to several legal issues. This presentation will examine:
- Who has what rights to pump groundwater?
- Do the rules that apply to fresh groundwater apply to briny groundwater?
- Who owns produced water—the oil and gas operator or the landowner?
- Could one person own the water, but a different person own any minerals in the water?
- Is lithium a “mineral” for purposes of a mineral severance or mineral lease?
This webinar is free for everyone.
Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
Speaker
Keith B. Hall
Director of the Energy Law Center; Director of the Mineral Law Institute; Professor of Law
Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Keith B. Hall holds the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law at Louisiana State University, where he serves as Director of the Mineral Law Institute and as Director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center. He teaches Mineral Rights, International Petroleum Transactions, Civil Law Property, and Energy Law & Regulation. Professor Hall is the co-author of three books on oil and gas law and is the co-editor of a fourth. In addition to teaching at LSU, Professor Hall has taught energy law classes as a visiting professor at Baku State University in Azerbaijan, as a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and as an adjunct professor at Loyola School of Law in New Orleans. Professor Hall has served as an expert for oil and gas disputes arising in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, as well as outside the U.S. Before joining the LSU faculty in 2012, Professor Hall practiced law at a major firm in New Orleans for sixteen years, and before that he worked for eight years as a chemical engineer.
MCLE Credit
Texas Course Number 174261146. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.0 credit hours, of which no credit hours will apply to ethics/professional responsibility credit.
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