Mayer Brown: Oil companies, lenders negotiate RSAs

More oil and gas companies are being forced into bankruptcy filings or other types of financing given the current oil price slump, and lenders are being drawn into what Mayer Brown partner Charles Kelley called “capital structure reengineering.” Source: News


Constitution Pipeline sues to overturn DEC's water-permit denial

Constitution Pipeline LLC has sued in two federal courts to overturn the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) denial of a water-quality certificate required for the proposed natural gas pipeline’s construction (OGJ Online, Apr. 25, 2016). Source: News


BLM, USFS sued over sage grouse land use plan changes

The Western Energy Alliance and North Dakota Petroleum Council jointly sued the US Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, charging that the agencies developed amended land use plans for the greater sage grouse that impose restrictions on new oil and gas leases and on development of existing leases. Source: News


Watching Government: Gas in a low-carbon world

When the world’s leading governments committed last fall in Paris to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to reduce global climate change impacts, one immediate question was where natural gas would fit. That concern has only grown as the administration of US President Barack Obama has tried to move aggressively to curb methane emissions from oil […]


East Mediterranean hope

Full-potential development of natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean remains a distant hope. Yet gas from deepwater fields off Israel, Cyprus, and Egypt and from discoveries yet to be made in the region could solve many problems. Source: News


Subsea R&D flourishes

Lower oil and natural gas prices are apparently not enough to dissuade some energy companies from continuing important research and development work. Source: News