Oil, Gas, And Energy CLE

How is the United States going to meet its carbon emissions and renewable energy goals? The answer, friends, is blowin’ in the wind – offshore wind. In this introduction to offshore wind permitting and development, we will review the global and national history of offshore wind and describe the immense potential for offshore wind to contribute to the United States’ clean energy transition. We then will provide an overview of the players and layers of approvals required for an offshore wind project, and describe how state and federal momentum has aligned under the Biden-Harris Administration to advance the development of the offshore wind industry in the U.S. Finally, we will talk about what we expect to see as the U.S. offshore wind industry develops over the next few years.

This is an introductory course for non-oil and gas practitioners. It covers the basics of oil and gas leasing and mineral ownership. It also covers common oil and gas problems which appear in unrelated litigation, for example probate or family law. This course is designed to help general practitioners protect their clients cheaply and efficiently.

This course discusses the basics of oil and gas title examination. The courts also covers the historical basis for—and legal solution to—various stubborn title problems which commonly result in misallocation of oil and gas royalties.

For over one hundred years, traditional vertical wells have been producing oil and gas across the country. However, as technology has advanced, horizontal wells have become a more profitable way to produce oil and gas from the maximum acreage allowed. What happens when an operator wants to drill a modern, horizontal well, thousands of feet long, under lands covered by old leases, without a pooling provision, without a separate pooling agreement, or when the lease expressly prohibits pooling under certain conditions? In this introduction to allocation wells, we breakdown the different types of horizontal wells, and the current guidance regarding to process of drilling an allocation well, and the related underlying production sharing agreements.

While the first cryptocurrency was created in 2009, it was not until the last year or two that the mining of cryptocurrency made its way into the oil and gas realm. As gas prices fell in the last several years, operators became interested in ways to utilize the wasted gas they were flaring. In certain environments, became obvious that mining cryptocurrency with excess gas was a way to utilize a wasted resource as well as a way to cut down on emissions. However, this new process created new issues for operators to consider. In this presentation, we will discuss the basics of cryptocurrency and the mining of it in the oil patch, and issues that operators must consider, especially when the gas being used to mine becomes more valuable than the currency it is creating.

For the uninitiated, oil and gas law concepts can be daunting and confusing at first.In many ways, learning the law of oil and gas requires learning a whole new language. This course will go over lexicon of the oil and gas industry, along with the basics of oil and gas law. We will also dig into common litigation topics, including royalty, leasing, and mineral trespass disputes.