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Houston-based Apache Corporation has entered into a binding agreement with Perth-based Woodside Petroleum Limited to sell its Wheatstone LNG and Balnaves oil interests in Australia and its Kitimat LNG project interests in Canada for $2.75 billion.
Houston-based Apache Corporation has entered into a binding agreement with Perth-based Woodside Petroleum Limited to sell its Wheatstone LNG and Balnaves oil interests in Australia and its Kitimat LNG project interests in Canada for $2.75 billion.
Rimrock Midstream is selling its 50 percent stake in the Grand Mesa Pipeline to NGL Energy Partners, which will make NGL own the entire pipeline system.
Rimrock Midstream is selling its 50 percent stake in the Grand Mesa Pipeline to NGL Energy Partners, which will make NGL own the entire pipeline system.
Wage-and-hour lawsuits filed against Texas businesses have increased 41 percent during the past three years and more than tripled over the past decade, according to research by Androvett Legal Media. “The number of calls I get from potential clients with viable wage and hour cases are more than I have the time and resources to accept,” said Baron & Budd's Allen Vaught, who recently won two major cases against companies under the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act. An in-depth examination by The Texas Lawbook finds the tidal wave of wage-and-hour lawsuits against Texas companies is not likely to end soon for one reason: workers are winning in court.
An affiliate of The Energy & Minerals Group, LP (EMG) has closed its $460 million equity commitment to American Energy Minerals Holdings, LLC (AEMN), which was formed by its parent company to pursue a business plan focused on the acquisition of minerals and overriding royalty interests.
An Austin federal judge has ordered Waco-based Life Partners Holdings, Inc. and two top executives to pay $46.9 million for violating securities laws by filing misleading financial statements and permanently enjoined them from doing so again in the future.
Weatherford International has announced that it will sell its engineered chemistry and integrity drilling fluids businesses to an affiliate of Cleveland-based The Lubrizol Corporation (a subsidiary of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway) for $750 million in cash.
Weatherford International has announced that it will sell its engineered chemistry and integrity drilling fluids businesses to an affiliate of Cleveland-based The Lubrizol Corporation (a subsidiary of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway) for $750 million in cash.
The group of banks Hunton represented financed part of a multi-train natural gas liquefaction and export facilities project on the Gulf Coast Quintana Island region run by Freeport LNG.
SAN ANTONIO – The Magna Stella Award is the Oscar for corporate general counsel. On Thursday night, the General Counsel Forum awarded nine gold stars to chief legal officers and assistant GCs from American Airlines, LyondellBasell Industries, Scott & White Healthcare, MoneyGram, Dell, Kinetic Concepts, University of Incarnate Word and the Metro Transit Authority of Harris County. The Texas Lawbook was there and has all the details.
Winston & Strawn partner Denmon Sigler is used to the question: How did a harpist become an oil and gas attorney?
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