ENeRgize - Energy And Natural Resources Update - Spring 2014

This Spring edition of Energize demonstrates the diversity of our cross office and cross disciplinary ENR practice; from mining in Saudi, to onshore oil and gas drilling in the UK, to smart cities worldwide.

I have just returned from Houston, Texas, where I was attending the Annual Oil & Gas practice Group Meeting of our legal network, ALFA International. The principal subject of this year's meeting was shale gas drilling and production. Fracking is nothing new to Texas and the process was invented there in the 1950s. Nor is it particularly controversial. The key concern of the North American delegates was the huge pressure on infrastructure by the abundance of shale oil supply and the need and benefits of more pipeline development, including the controversial Keystone XL project.