Noble Energy, Inc. v. Jewell

MEMORANDUM OPINION

COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY, United States District Judge

Plaintiff Noble Energy, Inc., challenges an order from the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of' Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE” or the “agency”) requiring it to permanently plug an offshore well, Well OCS-P 0320, No. 2, including related decommissioning activity. BSEE asserts the authority to require Noble Energy to plug the well under its decommissioning regulations, found at 30 C.F.R. §§ 250.1700-1754, issued pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq. Noble…