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In a landmark judgment handed down on 20 June 2024, R (Finch) v Surrey County Council and others [2024] UKSC 20, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that “Scope 3” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from...more
La Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) de Colombia, el 25 de julio de 2022, expidió el Acuerdo 005 de 2022 (el Acuerdo) por medio del cual adoptó criterios para la administración de Contratos y Convenios para actividades...more
On May 19, 2021, the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published in the Federal Official Gazette1 the "Decree amending the thirteenth transitory article of the Hydrocarbons Law" (the "Reform"), in order to...more
Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador approved for publication on May 4 changes to Mexico’s Hydrocarbon Law (the Hydrocarbons Reform), which is aimed to impair investors in the sector. Following publication in the...more
On May 4, 2021, the first amendment to Mexico’s Hydrocarbons Law was published in the Federal Official Gazette, with the legislative process having concluded on April 22, 2021, after a heated debate during a plenary session...more
Another proposed reform to the Hydrocarbons Law has gone through a hasty legislative process. On April 29, 2021, the Mexican Senate approved a reform bill ending the powers of the Energy Regulatory Commission (“CRE”) to...more
Following the Mexican government’s latest initiative of the Mexican government to amend the Hydrocarbons Law, the concerns about Mexico following in Venezuela’s footsteps to undo the energy reform (like Venezuela destroyed...more
On March 26, 2021, the House of Representatives published an initiative from the executive branch to reform the Hydrocarbons Law (the “Draft of Reform”) in its Parliamentary Gazette....more
On March 26, 2021, Mexico President López Obrador sent a bill to Congress to modify the country's hydrocarbons law (the "Draft Bill"). Under the Draft Bill, (i) the granting of import, commercialization, and distribution...more
On March 26, 2021, the Mexican House of Representatives published in the Parliamentary Gazette an initiative to amend certain provisions of the Hydrocarbons Law, an amendment directly proposed by President Andrés Manuel López...more
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador introduced a legislative initiative on March 26 to reform Mexico’s Hydrocarbon Law (the Hydrocarbons Reform) that is aimed to impair investors in the sector. While the...more
On March 26, 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent to the Chamber of Deputies the "initiative to modify the Hydrocarbons Law," (the "Initiative"). The Initiative intends to modify relevant aspects of...more
La Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) en Colombia, el pasado 26 de febrero de 2021, expidió el Acuerdo No. 4 de 2021 (el Acuerdo), a través del cual modificó el Acuerdo 06 de 2020, modificando así los criterios de la...more
Es claro que existen aún oportunidades amplias para mejorar la requerida flexibilidad de los contratos de exploración y producción de hidrocarburos en Colombia. El plan y programa de inversión de la Agencia Nacional de...more
La Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) en Colombia publicó el Proyecto de Acuerdo, "Por el cual se establecen criterios para la prórroga, otorgamiento de plazos y terminación por mutuo acuerdo de Contratos de Evaluación,...more
El 23 de septiembre Ecopetrol lanzó una nueva ronda de adjudicación de campos. Se trata de nueve campos en producción localizados en áreas de operación con infraestructura existe ubicados en Llanos, Valle Superior del...more
El pasado 10 de agosto 36 congresistas de diferentes partidos políticos, la Alianza Colombia Libre de Fracking y otras organizaciones (que vienen interviniendo en los procesos que se adelantan en el Consejo de Estado contra...more
El pasado 20 de mayo de 2020 la Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) expidió la Adenda No. 12, modificando los Términos de Referencia del Proceso Permanente de Asignación de Áreas (PPAA) y estableciendo los requisitos y...more
The Trump Administration is using the reauthorization of a pipeline safety statute as an opening to insert new provisions that would give U.S. authorities broader latitude to thwart and criminalize the activities of...more
• Each of the three participating countries in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is about to submit the new free trade agreement for its respective Congress' approval. • Some stakeholders have interpreted Chapter 8...more
• Mexico's new administration, led by President-Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has promised to not rescind the energy reform of 2013, but to closely review the exploration and production (E&P) contracts already awarded to...more
Tabasco is known for being one of Mexico's oil states, with a very developed industry and fields. As such, the federal Port Authority Dos Bocas (API Dos Bocas), located in the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, has an...more
Mexico’s National Hydrocarbon Commission (Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos) (“CNH”) announced on May 11 the terms for the third bid of Round One. Unlike the two earlier bids which covered 19 shallow water areas, the third...more
The Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) has issued the first call for bids under Round One and the terms and conditions (T&Cs) governing the tender. CNH seeks to award 14 production-sharing contracts for the exploration...more