Impediment

The Minerals Management Service’s plan to shorten the initial lease terms for an upcoming Central Gulf of Mexico (GOM) sale “is one more impediment to the development of domestic oil and natural gas,” says the head of the American Petroleum Institute (API).

Litigation over alleged wilderness areas has become a major obstacle and impediment to oil and natural gas development on federal lands, with key decisions from the District Court of Utah and the Federal Court for the Northern District of California raising doubts about the ability of the energy industry to economically develop natural resources on federal lands, according to a report by the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP.

Litigation over alleged wilderness areas has become a major obstacle and impediment to oil and natural gas development on federal lands, with key decisions from the District Court of Utah and the Federal Court for the Northern District of California raising doubts about the ability of the energy industry to economically develop natural resources on federal lands, according to the latest report on energy trends by the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP.