Oil & Gas E-Report

Inside the Latest Issue:

• U.S. District Court Holds Oil and Gas Rights Under Lease to Be Divisible, Implied Covenant to Develop Can Arise During Secondary Term
• Is (Produced) Water... Water? The Texas Supreme Court’s Ruling on the Rights of Produced Water
• EPA Proposes to Grant SDWA Class VI Primacy to Texas
• EPA Proposes Granting UIC Primacy to Arizona for Classes I-VI
• Fifth Circuit Affirms Surety Cannot Recover from Former Offshore Lessees for Forfeited Bonds Used to Pay for Decommissioning
• Texas Supreme Court Says Production by Co-Tenant Maintained Lease with Passive-Voice Habendum Clause
• U.S. Supreme Court Decides Major NEPA Case
• 5th Circuit Addresses Requirements for “Best Available Control Technology” for Air Pollution PSD Permits under the Federal and Texas Clean Air Acts
• Change to Louisiana Severance Taxes
• North Dakota Supreme Court Revives Challenge to CCS Amalgamation (Unitization) Statute

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, RLB Legal Group, PLLC
• 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
• 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
• 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.

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

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