Author: Publisher:
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Category : Oil and gas leases
Languages : en
Pages :
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Litigation in the Oil Patch
Author: The Troubled Oil Venture
Author: Oklahoma City University. School of LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law
Author: Publisher: West Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Finders Keepers?
Author: Terence DaintithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136522832
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Since the beginnings of the oil industry, production activity has been governed by the 'law of capture,' dictating that one owns the oil recovered from one's property even if it has migrated from under neighboring land. This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated by foreign critics as a 'law of the jungle' and identified by American commentators as the root cause of the enormous waste of oil and gas resulting from US production methods in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet while in almost every other country the law of capture is today of marginal significance, it continues in full vigour in the United States, with potentially wasteful results. In this richly documented account, Terence Daintith adopts a historical and comparative perspective to show how legal rules, technical knowledge (or the lack of it) and political ideas combined to shape attitudes and behavior in the business of oil production, leading to the original adoption of the law of capture, its consolidation in the United States, and its marginalization elsewhere.
Sword Or Constitution?
Author: Nicholas G. MalavisPublisher:
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Institute on Oil and Gas Law and Taxation, DallasPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Cases and Materials on the Law of Oil and Gas
Author: Richard Callender MaxwellPublisher: West Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Troubled Oil Venture, Part III: Bankruptcy
Author: Oklahoma City University. School of LawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankruptcy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Environmental Issues in the Oil Patch
Author: Southern Methodist University. School of LawPublisher:
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Crude Justice
Author: Stuart H. SmithPublisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1939529239
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One day in the small Mississippi town of Laurel, a 26-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub—and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre it wasn't until later, after she saw the doctor, that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law's business. Winston Street ran a machine shop that drilled the gunk out of pipes used by Chevron, Shell and other giants of the oil industry—creating a white powder that covered Karen Street's husband's overalls every night, which then landed in their vegetable garden...and was highly radioactive. Winston Street didn't know the dust was poisonous, nor did his workers or his family. But someone did know. Indeed, there was evidence that America's Big Oil companies were aware for decades that they were pulling up radium from under the earth, poisoning yards like Street's while dumping radioactive water in unlined pits across the South. Now, to prove that and win justice for his blue-collar clients, an untested young lawyer named Stuart H. Smith and his eccentric team would have to get the better of America's best-known radiation attorney and the global clout of Chevron inside a Mississippi courtroom. In a gripping tale that reads as if torn from the pages of a John Grisham novel, Crude Justice tells how the Little Guy can take on the behemoth of Big Oil and win…with the help of a good attorney. Recounting more than two decades as a top environmental lawyer in the toxic oil patch of the American South, Smith tells the story of how he upped the ante again and again—getting the best of Chevron, then taking on the world's most powerful corporation, ExxonMobil, with $1 billion on the line, and finally ferreting out the elusive truth behind BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Smith finally builds upon the courtroom drama of his past and the environmental threats of the present—from fracking to the Keystone XL pipeline—to issue a resounding call for America to break its crippling addiction to fossil fuels.