Updated Sep 25, 2024
9/25/24
A North Dakota district judge has temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule that would require U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies to reduce natural gas flaring from wells on federal and tribal lands.
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has finalized a rule designed to curb methane pollution from oil and natural gas production on federal and Tribal lands, in part by collecting royalty payments on flared gas.
As the U.S. Congress nears the Oct. 1 deadline to agree on spending legislation, some oil and natural gas industry representatives fear a federal government shutdown would have serious implications for leasing.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) along with 13 energy trade associations have requested the Biden administration develop “fair and consistent federal leasing regulations” for onshore natural gas and oil development.
A federal court has rejected an appeal by the American Petroleum Institute (API) of a 2016 rule that steepened royalty payments for natural gas and oil produced on federal property.
The Biden administration’s pause in conducting oil and natural gas lease sales on federal land is drawing more legal challenges, as plaintiffs argue that the lack of third quarter auctions was illegal.
The Biden administration aims to substantially curb new oil and natural gas drilling on public lands as it attempts to combat climate change and emphasize renewable fuels.
A federal judge on Wednesday voided Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approval of ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow development envisaged for Alaska’s North Slope, citing a failure by BLM to analyze the project’s downstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The Biden administration said it would resume oil and gas lease sales on federal lands and waters in order to comply with a court ruling. However, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) said late Monday it is simultaneously appealing the Louisiana-based court’s decision, and if it wins on appeal, it could again suspend leasing as it studies the environmental impacts of drilling.
A consortium of oil and gas industry groups said Monday they had sued the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to reverse its decision this year to indefinitely freeze oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands and waters.