After excluding foreign companies for 75 years, Mexico began implementing sweeping reforms in 2013-2014 to open its energy industry and “kick-start its production of oil and gas by attracting significant outside investment.” Attorneys Dennis R. Luna, Editor-in-Chief of the California … Continue reading
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Mexico held its first auction in 77 years in which foreign companies could bid on drilling rights, but most of the major oil companies chose to stay on the sidelines. A consortium including Sierra Oil & Gas, a Mexican company, … Continue reading
Kern County has released a draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that would change the county’s oil and gas ordinances to allow quicker review of CEQA challenges, streamline DOGGR reviews of drilling activity, and fund regional projects to improve local air … Continue reading
The four-year drought that has gripped California is adding to the pressure on oil and gas producers in the state to find ways to recycle the billions of gallons of wastewater produced from their wells. The producers generate over 92 … Continue reading
Chevron Corp. said that tests of the recycled oil field wastewater it sells to farmers in Kern County meets water quality standards, and does not contain contaminants an advocacy group claimed it found. After treating it, Chevron provides 21 million … Continue reading
Regulations on hydraulic fracturing and other oil and gas well stimulation techniques were issued in final form July 1 by DOGGR as required by Senate Bill 4. The agency also certified a statewide Environmental Impact Report on well stimulation. The … Continue reading