Perspectives

The Fifth Circuit has confirmed that Texas's Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act (LSIPA) survives federal preemption challenges,...

For much of the last decade, uncertainty has been one of the most significant risks facing offshore operators. However, the challenge was...

The Trump administration’s decision to merge the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy...

In Texas Crude Energy, LLC v. Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company, LP, the Thirteenth Court of Appeals held that an operator that...

The Supreme Court of Texas's answer could reshape how natural-gas sellers draft contracts, document supply decisions, and respond when an...

Last week, in an opinion authored by Justice Caughey and joined by Justices Rivas-Molloy and Guerra, the First Court reversed a...

The Texas Supreme Court recently provided an important, but simple, reminder: when a contract is unambiguous, the court will enforce it...

Before a farmout dispute gets to questions of earned acreage, designation requirements, or payout calculations, there is a threshold...

In Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel, decided April 22, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court made a practical point unmistakably clear: If a case is...

The Department of the Interior (DOI), through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), has formally proposed a sweeping update to...

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has led to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declaring the Strait of Hormuz closed to...