Oil & Gas Companies in Crisis: Working with Lenders, Contractors, Suppliers, and Regulatory Agencies
The expert panelists provide a closer look at practical legal solutions that oil and gas companies are currently facing, including how to communicate and negotiate with lenders, how to address stop-work notices and declarations of force majeure, how to deal with compliance issues and seek relief from regulatory agencies, and how to deal with non-payment from operators and vendors.
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65th Annual Institute: The Future of the Modern Electricity Grid
Former FERC general counsel Max Minzner talks about the future of the electric grid and energy markets, including the factors that are impacting the primary source energy industries that supply electric utilities.
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65th Annual Institute: New Subsurface Property Rights in an Old Trespass World
Oil & Gas Professor David Pierce discusses why correlative rights rather than traditional trespass theory may be better suited to analyze subsurface intrusions in oil and gas reservoirs across boundary lines in such contexts as hydraulic fracturing, frac hits, injection wells, and enhanced recovery operations.
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65th Annual Institute: When Voters Directly Regulate Energy and Mineral Development
Professor Marcilynn Burke, Dean of the University of Oregon School of Law talks about recent voter initiatives in Colorado, Montana, Alaska, Florida, and elsewhere to regulate mineral development in the context of history, including how such measures have fared, the impact of successful and failed referendum, and whether industry outreach is effective to avoid new ballot measures.
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65th Annual Institute: Corporate Audits and Investigations
An experienced corporate attorney discusses strategies for in-house counsel to launch and manage internal audits and investigations to ensure compliance with laws, policies, and standards, and related benefits and pitfalls.
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65th Annual Institute: Annual Mining and Public Land Law Update
The Annual Mining and Public Land Law Update will summarize the key legislative, administrative, and judicial developments in mining and public land law during the past twelve months.
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65th Annual Institute: An Analysis of the Climate Change Considerations Required to Satisfy NEPA in Energy and Infrastructure Projects
The presentation examines judicial efforts to expand the analysis required under the National Environmental Policy Act to calculate and include greenhouse gas emissions from downstream use of energy produced from or transported by a proposed infrastructure, oil and gas, or other energy project, despite the rescission of the Council on Environmental Quality’s guidance.
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65th Annual Institute: Annual Oil and Gas Law Update
The Annual Oil and Gas Law Update provides a summary of new and significant statutory, regulatory, and judicial developments applicable to upstream oil and gas development in the U.S. that have occurred in the past twelve months.
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65th Annual Institute: Working with Landscape-Scale Traditional Cultural Properties
Hilary Tompkins, the former Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, discusses what landscape-scale traditional cultural properties are, how they are different from other cultural resources, and how they can impact oil and gas, mining, and linear infrastructure projects, along with related Indian tribal consultation obligations.
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65th Annual Institute: Ethical Obligations in Data Security and Breach Response
An expert on privacy law discusses the ethical obligations of lawyers related to data security, how to respond to data breaches, and best practices and policies to prevent and handle data security threats under the ABA Rules of Professional Conduct.
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65th Annual Institute: Quiet Title Actions as an Effective Curative Tool
This presentation examines the risks of oil and gas quiet title actions and when they might be of last resort, and suggests more appropriate curative actions, including multiple-estate probate, corporate dissolution statues, compulsory pooling, and unlocatable property statutes.
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EPA and State Environmental Policies to Address Environmental Compliance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This panel of experts critically examines the memo issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on “COVID-19 Implications for Enforcement and Compliance Assurance” as well as other state memos and policies issued to date related to the COVID-19 pandemic and environmental enforcement.
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Bankruptcy 101: Basic Legal Concepts for the Oil and Gas Industry
This panel of bankruptcy attorneys addresses the basics of bankruptcy with a focus on the oil and gas industry and the impact that COVID-19 is having on companies in this industry.
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The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation is a collaborative, educational, non-profit organization dedicated to the scholarly and practical study of the laws and regulations relating to mining, oil and gas, energy, public lands, water, environmental and international law. Through our educational programs, we bring together lawyers, landmen, managers, consultants, government personnel, law faculty, students, and others involved in minerals, oil and gas, water, and other resources.
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