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 price point at which crude oil is traded internationally is fixed predominantly by the Brent Crude Oil, West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil and Dubai/Oman Crude Oil benchmarks.

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...

In separate letters, two groups called on EPA to regulate methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

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...

The Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta held that the 90-day lien period to register a lien against an "oil or gas well" or "oil or gas well site" applies to drilling on oil sands mines.

British American Tobacco faces significant penalties from Nigeria's Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission for alleged violations of consumer protection regulations. The case raises important questions about corporate compliance with local consumer laws and the enforcement powers of regulatory bodies in protecting market competition.

The three largest economies in Asia – China, Japan and India – also happen to be three of the biggest oil importers in the world, trailing only the US.

Sanctions signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve allows the US to cut off financial institutions worldwide who deal with the Central Bank of Iran ("CBI") from the U.S. financial system.

The legal landscape for oil traders continues to present significant challenges for the unwary.

"Greenwashing" is the term for a company's exaggerated, misleading, or unsupported claims about its environmental practices.

Nowadays, the oil sector is on a voyage of major change all over the world and in particular in the European Union.

The United States Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") issued an Alert on April 17, 2023, warning U.S. persons about the possible evasion of the price cap imposed by the Department...

In the last week, President Trump has threatened "secondary" tariffs in three distinct scenarios.

Considering todays current oil prices, it is obvious that Saudi Arabia will be experiencing budget deficit for 2024. After enjoying a rare budget surplus in 2022, and despite the recorded surplus trade balance of 113.1 USD billions in Dec 2023.

In Georgia, employees risk being penalized by their employers for their legal use of Cannabidiol (CBD) oil while performing their jobs.

British Columbia and Alberta recently announced that the provinces have entered a framework agreement on moving energy resources to new markets and confirmed certain principles that will apply to the development of heavy oil pipelines from Alberta’s oil sands to the BC coast.

As described in the March 2008 Blakes Bulletin on Environmental Law entitled "Environmental Assessments and Greenhouse Gas Emissions", in a decision released on March 5, 2008, the Federal Court held that the Report of the Joint Review Panel approving Imperial Oil's Kearl Oil Sands Project (Kearl Project), did not provide a rationale for its conclusions on greenhouse gas emissions.

When one thinks of bottled olive oil, Italy probably comes to mind.

On December 22, 2021, Taylor Energy Company LLC ("Taylor Energy"), a Louisiana based oil and gas company, and the United States Department of Justice reached a settlement...