Melissa J. Lyon's blog post, "Oil Hits $50 per Barrel – What's the Outlook? Bearish? Bullish? No-idea-ish?," originally posted in the firm's Energy Law Today blog, was mentioned as one of the top postings for May 27, 2016.

The Canadian Securities Administrators yesterday proposed amendments to NI 51-101 Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities intended to enhance the consistency and quality of issuers' disclosure of oil and gas activities, while increasing flexibility for issuers.

A very powerful environmental artwork was on display in City Hall’s parking garage during Toronto’s Nuit Blanche.

2021 has been a landmark year for the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry. With the conclusion of the marginal field bidding rounds and the passage of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA)...

Technology transfer is the sharing or disseminating of knowledge, skills, methods, technologies, equipment, intellectual property or innovations from one entity (often a foreign company...

The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit against 18 oil and gas companies. The lawsuit arose from the sudden death of oysters in Plaquemines Parish...

On December 15, 2015, Mexico conducted its third in a series of oil auctions in 2015, this time focusing on onshore fields with combined proven and probable reserves of about 49 million barrels of oil equivalent.

On March 1, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ("EPA") Administrator, E. Scott Pruitt, signed a notice seeking public comment on the proposed withdrawal of the CTG for the oil and natural gas industry.

This edition covers insights on macro factors, fundamentals, oil distillates, industry investment, derivatives market signals, CFTC trader commitment and analyst consensus.

Will Oil States affect other types of PTAB trials, like Covered Business Method Reviews (CBM) and Post-Grant Reviews (PGR)?

By holding that non-Article III venues may resolve patentability issues, the Court's holding may support the International Trade Commission's (ITC) ability to also resolve patentability issues...

Dutch and Italian authorities are investigating the role of Shell and its partner Eni in the deal.

Oil and gas exploration in the continental United States boomed in the 2000's and into 2010's through the revolutionary use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing of shale and other rock formations.

Texas AG Ken Paxton and the U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with barge owner Kirby Inland Marine, LP ("Kirby") to resolve allegations...

To combat Venezuela's destabilizing actions and support for illicit activities, the Secretary of State in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerc...

The global oil & gas industry is being challenged by the dramatic and sustained drop in the oil price.

"The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil"...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been studying holistically the management of wastewater generated from onshore unconventional oil and gas extraction ...

A class-action lawsuit has alleged that Upfield US Inc. deceptively labeled its "Country Crock Plant Butter" as "Made with Almond Oil" and with images of almonds...

OFAC designated a Chinese state-run oil trader and its chief executive for violating U.S. sanctions by purchasing Iranian oil.