The district court granted the state's motion for preliminary injunction on June 15, 2021, and the government defendants appealed to the Fifth Circuit.

While several bills were considered that would restructure the state's severance tax scheme on oil and gas during Louisiana's 2025 regular legislative session, three bills aimed to stimulate drilling activity...

On November 28, the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed methane rule. This action furthers the Biden-Harris administration's whole-of-government...

On Friday, US oil prices fell below the $65 a barrel level, heading for their largest monthly drop since crude oil futures started trading in New York in 1983.

Mexico's Energy Reform of 2013 opened oil and gas sectors to private direct investment and operation. Under that reform, trading of hydrocarbons, oil and petrochemicals (oil products) opened in all value chains, even though some of those products were partially opened and no permission was required.

The 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, is on the fifty-dollar bill. I had forgotten this tidbit but now that U.S. oil prices are in the $50 range, images of the $50 bills are on the front of my mind.

On September 8, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its first ever corporate criminal resolution involving the illicit sale and transport of Iranian oil in violation of U.S. sanctions...

The Thai Cabinet has approved a draft law governing civil liability for oil pollution from shipping. The draft seeks to implement international maritime standards and establish firm policies to deal with the catastrophic effects of oil spills.

Bakken crude oil increasingly heads south as low oil prices erode its competitive advantage in the U.S. East Coast market.

Maritime shipping emissions account for about 3% of the global carbon dioxide output, roughly the same as aviation and, according to the World Economic Forum...

Various reports indicate that the Group of Seven nations (G7) will announce its initial capped price for Russian-origin crude oil transported by maritime means ("seaborne") this week.

In a recently released report, the Global Capital Confidence Barometer, EY suggests that M&A intentions in the global oil and gas sector are at an all-time high.

Oil sands facilities are currently regulated under the Specified Gas Emitter Regulation.

Proposed legislation would eliminate long-term capital gains treatment and the preferential treatment of income derived by tax-exempt organizations with respect to direct or derivative interests in oil and natural gas.

Nigeria has vast oil and gas history and potential. It has the largest natural gas and second largest oil reserves in Africa with estimated known reserves of 37 billion barrels of oil and 5 trillion cubic metres of natural gas.

>The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently addressed, in two concurrent decisions, the scope of local governments' authority to regulate oil and gas activities within their jurisdictions.

On 12 May 2017, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-48, the proposed Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, in Parliament.

In a recent ruling, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") decided that shippers must employ costly U.S.-flag vessels when shipping processed condensate to and from a foreign country to be blended as a diluent with heavy crude.

The U.S. Department of the Interior, through its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), published a proposed rule on June 29, 2023, to significantly modify how the agency assesses...

On March 8, 2022, President Joseph Biden signed an Executive Order banning the import into the United States of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal. The Executive Order bans...