Obituary for Donald Gifford Briggs
by LOGA Staff in News
Catholic services will be held on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 3:00 PM at St. Pius X Catholic Church for Donald Gifford Briggs, age 82, who entered eternal rest on Monday, April 3, 2023 at his residence in Lafayette.
LOGA Founder Don Briggs Passes Away at Age 82
by LOGA Staff in News
BATON ROUGE, LA (April 3, 2023) - The Louisiana Oil & Gas Association is heartbroken to announce that LOGA Founder and President-Emeritus Don Briggs passed away at his home in Lafayette, Louisiana on Monday, April 3, 2023. He was 82 years old.
Op-Ed: In Defense of Carbon Capture
by LOGA Staff in News
BATON ROUGE, LA (October 11, 2022) - There has been lots of back and forth lately about Carbon Capture, Usage, & Storage (CCUS). Sadly, two parishes recently passed moratoriums on future CCUS projects. In defense of these parish’s decisions, CCUS sounds like something new to them. They don’t believe the injection process is proven, don’t believe the parishes will be compensated, and have been told that properties can be taken by eminent domain.
LOGA Responds to BOEM’s Reinstatement of Lease Sale 257 Bids
by LOGA Staff in News
BATON ROUGE, LA (September 14, 2022) - In compliance with the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bureau of Energy Management (BOEM) announced today that the 307 highest value bids from Lease Sale 257 held in November of 2021 would be reinstated, totaling $189,888,271. The bids had been invalidated by a federal judge earlier this year.
LOGA responds to permanent injunction issued on Biden ban on new oil and gas leasing
by LOGA Staff in News
BATON ROUGE, LA (August 30, 2022) - Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty sided with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and 12 other states in a Louisiana-led lawsuit, issuing a permanent injunction against the Biden administration’s moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and water.