BSEE Finally Allows Pipeline ROWs To Be Co-Owned

Are you pining for the cheery days of yore when regulations made at least some business sense?  Happy days are here again, at least for BSEE’s new policy on ownership of pipeline rights-of-way (ROW) on the outer continental shelf (OCS).  After years of refusing to...

BOEM Publishes Final Rule for Leasing in the OCS

On March 30, 2016, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published its Final Rule for Leasing of Oil and Gas or Sulfur in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).  This particular rulemaking process began with the publication of a proposed rule in 2009 by the...