Oil & Gas
Webinar: Cheap Oil? Making Sense of a Competitive Oil Market
EVENT, Sept. 9, 10 a.m. PDT
Institute of the Americans will present a complimentary webinar discussing both the historical context for the current oil price market as well as the outlook for oil prices.
Seamlessly Implementing Safety in the Oil & Gas Industry
On-Demand
Industrial Safety & Hygiene News has posted a complimentary on-demand webinar on the challenging demands of maintaining safety in the oil and gas industry as it involves operators or lease owners, drillers and oil-field service companies.
Contractural Stabilization Clauses: Oil Firms Navigate Price-Related Changes of Law
White Paper
Contractual stabilization clauses could help international oil companies (IOCs) protect their interests should the same occur again, reports Pinsent Masons in its Out-Law.com blog.
‘Peak Oil’ – Is That All There Is?
White Paper
The oil market is in a state of confusion, though several developments may serve to halt the momentum depending on their respective outcomes, writes Mona Dajani in a white paper published by Baker & McKenzie.
Global Survey Data: Energy Management Budgets & Priorities For 2016
Event, August 6, 12 p.m. EST
How are electricity prices, energy market regulations and overall economic growth impacting corporate spending plans for energy management?
BP Oil Spill Five Years later: How the Oil Industry Has Changed
White Paper
The catastrophe affected families, the eco-system, wildlife, and so much more, but with new plans and practices in place, oil industry professionals can learn from the past and make better decisions in the future.
Judge Orders Colorado Oilman to Pay $16.8M in Legal Fees
NEWS
The defendant, Jack Grynberg, filed scores of lawsuits against natural gas and pipeline companies around the West in the late 1990s.
Texas Supreme Court Decision in Compression Cost Case Focuses on Express Contract Language
NEWS
The ruling focused closely on the contract language finding that a natural gas transporter could not deduct compression costs and was not entitled to a five-year extension based on the terms of the agreement.
Oil and Gas Midyear Forecast and Review 2015
EVENT, July 10, 10 a.m. CDT
Special report will project oil and gas markets through the end of the year worldwide, analyze demand product by product in the United States, and forecast drilling activity in the United States and Canada.
Oil Price and the Energy Industry: Finding Resilience Through Volatility
On-Demand
EY on-demand webinar discusses the question: What will happen to the oil price in 2015 and beyond?
Improving Strategic Planning in the Oil and Gas Industry
On-Demand
With the turbulent and volatile price of oil and gas, it is paramount in organizations’ boardrooms that not only is the annual capex and opex budget set according to future oil and gas prices but that the correct projects are selected.
Transocean Reaches $212 Million Settlement Over Oil Spill Claims
NEWS
Transocean owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which sank after the April 20, 2010 blowout at BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Strategic Alternatives for Mitigating Risks in Today’s Energy Climate
On-Demand
The Burleson LLP on-demand webinar features key insights from a panel of energy restructuring attorneys and capital and financial advisors.
BLM’s Hydraulic Fracturing Rule: The First Step in the Regulatory March of 2015
EVENT, June 4, 5:30 p.m. CDT
BakerHostetler’s presentation will explain the role of the hydraulic fracturing rule within the more expansive regulatory context and will consider the consequences that the outcome of legal and political challenges seeking to invalidate the rule could have on federal energy policy.
FERC Revises Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Nomination Timelines
White Paper
The Final Rule follows an extensive stakeholder process held by the North American Energy Standards Board involving the gas and electric industries, and multiple FERC technical conferences.
Chesapeake Agrees to Pay $25 Million to Settle Michigan’s Charges
NEWS
The settlement also addresses complaints that Chesapeake defrauded hundreds of private citizens by fraudulently canceling their oil and gas leases in 2010.
High Court Allows State Law Antitrust Claims to Proceed Against Interstate Pipelines
White Paper
The court considered whether the Natural Gas Act pre-empts state law antitrust claims when the challenged conduct affects both federally regulated wholesale natural gas prices and non-federally regulated retail natural gas prices, reports Mintz, Levin.
Settlement Under EPA’s Energy Extraction Initiative Offers Insight
White Paper
Advanced air emissions monitoring tools that EPA pursues in its settlements may expose settling companies to future litigation based not on the compliance demonstration method of the applicable air rule, but rather on broader Next Generation technology.
DOE Highlights the Need to Modernize Aging US Energy Infrastructure
White Paper
The administration’s report provides a detailed roadmap for modernizing the energy transmission, storage, and distribution system to make it more secure and resilient to the effects of climate change.
M&A Activity and Trends in the Midstream and Downstream Energy Markets
EVENT: April 28, 11 a.m. EDT
Topics will include oil prices and geopolitics and commodity price impact on M&A activity.
