Federal Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing and Development

The papers presented at the 2013 Short Course on Federal Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing and Development are available as a package that includes a written manual (looseleaf binder) and audio CDs (See audio options in the drop-down menu). Chapters include:

• OCSLA, federal/state authority, and the role of DOI
• Leasing and development
• Exploration and development plans
• Lease suspensions
• Offshore unitization
• Bonding/oil spill financial responsibility
• Recent regulations
• BSEE INC/Civil penalty update
• Beyond DOI and OCSLA
• Joint interest owner bankruptcy considerations
• Legal ethics: toil and trouble
• BOEM adjudication section procedures
• Liability of predecessors, successors, and assigns
• Appeals of MMS orders
• Responding to oil spills
• Adjacent state law as surrogate federal law
• Joint operating agreements
• Production handling
• Drilling contracts and service agreements
• Environmentalist legal challenges, post-Deepwater Horizon

Published January 2013 Package Only: 1 looseleaf manual/698 pages + audio CDs/1,035 minutes, including 60 minutes of ethics