The U.S. Department of the Interior on Sept. 29, 2023, announced its long-awaited Five-Year Offshore Leasing Plan as required by the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (the Plan).

The newest grant funding is scheduled to be used to study the physics of oil and gas in porous media.

The oil and gas industry has gotten its way, and local control of drilling-location decisions has been unceremoniously taken away from the citizens of Ohio."

In this episode of "Energy Law This Week," hosts Matt Jones and April L. Rolen-Ogden are joined by Michael Ruckle, Senior Health Scientist and Project Manager...

In this article by David Cavanaugh, Mark Fleming and Will Kinder, published by Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, the authors analyze the US Supreme Court's decision...

On March 4, 2022, the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced further sanctions to target Russia's strategic oil/gas and military/defense sectors.

John Smith spoke to the Wall Street Journal about shipping companies purchasing dozens of secondhand oil tankers this year, paying record prices for ice-class ships...

The global energy landscape in 2025 stands at a moment of profound transformation as oil and gas companies face intensifying scrutiny from regulators, investors, and an increasingly litigious public.

The Alberta government has introduced Bill 25: Oil Sands Emissions Limit Act into the legislature. If enacted, Alberta will have an annual legislated 100 megatonne cap on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil sands projects, including mining, in situ and upgrading projects.

On August 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) imposing an additional 25 percent tariff on imports from India in an effort to stop or curtail India's direct or indirect importation of Russian-origin oil.

This case involves an interesting set of facts in a construction context.

This Review comes to you at a time when a record high oil price is casting a shadow over world economic growth and is threatening a return to the inflationary era of the 1970s. However, Roger Bootle, our Economic Adviser, expects that the economic impact of a higher oil price will be much less devastating this time around.

One of the first announcements out of the Prime Minister Trudeau's U.S. state visit was a joint statement from the PM and President Obama on climate, energy and arctic leadership.

In recent years, Africa and other developing markets have been a major focus for a significant number of small/mid cap E&P companies.

On May 12, 2016, the EPA issued a final rule aimed at curbing methane emissions from new and modified sources of oil and gas.

The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently published the following alert, "Possible Evasion of the Russian Oil Price Cap" (the Alert)...

Many in the oil and gas industry expected to see increased levels of M&A activity in the upstream oil and gas sector, and in the broader oil and gas industry, as a result of prolonged depressed oil prices that first began their decline in June of 2014.

The state of Rio de Janeiro ("RJ") has recently approved two harmful, and possibly unconstitutional, laws that may hinder exploration and production activities in and off the coast of RJ.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) on Nov. 21, 2022, published a determination pursuant to E.O. 14071 prohibiting U.S. persons...

The 1 July 2012 deadline for performing contracts relating to Iranian crude oil and petroleum products has now passed.