In This Issue:

- Recent Settlement Under EPA's Energy Extraction Initiative Provides Insight For Future Enforcement in the Oil and Gas Industry

- Tax Incentives Offer Hope for UK Oil and Gas Industry Affected by Low Oil Prices

- It's Time to End the Crude Oil Export Ban

- FERC Declines to Change "Gas Day" Start Time; Adopts Other Proposed Natural Gas Scheduling and Contracting Changes

- PHMSA Steps Up Review of Pipeline Construction

- FERC Issues Policy Statement Regarding Pipeline Modernization Surcharges

- Reported Relationship Between Indoor Radon Concentrations and Unconventional Marcellus Shale Drilling Must Be Interpreted With Caution

- The Emergency Arbitrator: Doubling as an Effective Option for Urgent Relief and an Early Settlement Tool

- Texas Supreme Court Avoids Answering a Fundamental Question in a Wastewater Disposal Case

- 10 Keys To a Successful LNG Export Project

- How Latin American LNG Markets and U.S. Exports are Reshaping the LNG Market

- Generating Revenue from a Solar Project – the Power Purchase Agreement

- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – Shaping Development

- Excerpt from Recent Settlement Under EPA's Energy Extraction Initiative Provides Insight For Future Enforcement in the Oil and Gas Industry:

Given its patchwork of regulatory authority over operations in the oil and natural gas industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a national enforcement initiative to focus its efforts. Through its Energy Extraction Enforcement Initiative, EPA has been steadily targeting the energy industry. A recent settlement provides further insight into EPA's approach under the Clean Air Act and highlights the type of "beyond compliance" requirements on which industry should focus.

Noble Energy, Inc. Settlement -

On April 22, 2015, Noble Energy, Inc. agreed to a $73 million settlement to resolve claims brought by EPA and the State of Colorado related to emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The financial costs of the settlement are significant for a Clean Air Act matter in the upstream sector.