Leaky Laws – Oil Spill Liability in New York

Pipelines, even privately owned, are a publically regulated transportation and operating system. The question is not whether pipelines are “essential to our society.”  Pipelines are already integral to the country: the US had over 1,700,000 miles of oil and gas...

Bankruptcy in the Bakken

Bankruptcy in the Bakken Oil and gas production is a result of two basic factors: economics and technology. Economics means the costs of production and distribution. The price of oil is an essential element of the economics of production. One economic risk is...