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Securities regulators' recent caution about private oil and gas offerings

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

In early May, the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy released an Investor Alert entitled Private Oil and Gas Offerings (PDF). This

Time to consider application of the conflict minerals rule

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 26 2012

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Conflict Minerals Rule, Rule 13p-1 (.PDF), mandated by Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which added Section 13(p) to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, was adopted on August 22, 2012, and became effective November 13, 2012

Recent OSHA wins for oil & gas industry

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 3 2012

Every once in while common sense wins out

Judge reverses his recent Texas district court ruling, says collecting sales tax on oil and gas equipment is proper

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2012

Travis County District Judge John Dietz reversed his recent ruling in Southwest Royalties, Inc. v. Combs (D-1-GN-09-004284) and issued a final order stating that sales tax does apply to the sale of machinery and equipment used to extract oil and gas

Recent Texas district court ruling on sales tax on oil and gas equipment creates opportunity, risks for industry

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 20 2012

A recent Texas district court ruling in a tax case regarding the applicability of sales tax collections on the sale of machinery and equipment used to extract oil and gas could lead the state to make billions in tax refunds, future annual tax losses of $500 million, and a legislative battle in 2013

Fifth Circuit upholds Louisiana mineral lien (privilege) of subcontractors against subsequent mineral owner for offshore platform removal

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2012

In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Louisiana Oil Well Lien Act allowed subcontractors to assert and enforce a lien against a mineral lease on the Outer Continental Shelf ("OCS") for platform decommissioning and removal work on a well that had been plugged years earlier, and before the current owner acquired the lease

Tips on Bids: Pemex New Rules

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • Mexico
  • -
  • January 20 2011

In December 2010, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice confirmed by unanimous vote the constitutionality and legality of the Administrative Dispositions for Contracting Rules for Pemex (the DAC's), which were implemented in August 2010

EPA widens hydraulic fracking investigation

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

Earlier this year, EPA announced that it would conduct a comprehensive research study to investigate the potential adverse impacts that hydraulic fracturing associated with natural gas wells may have on ground and surface water

Beach restoration projects are not impermissible takings

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a Florida Supreme Court decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Dep't of Envtl. Prot., holding that the placement of fill onto submerged beach land owned by the state did not constitute a taking of privately owned beachfront property

Louisiana seeks to hold Transocean liable for Gulf oil spill

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

The State of Louisiana is asking a New Orleans federal judge presiding over the Deepwater Horizon Multi-District Litigation to rule that Transocean Ltd. is a responsible party under the Oil Pollution Act for the Gulf Oil spill

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