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Shipping and Energy Newsletter - Summer 2025

Haynes Boone on 8/7/2025

In this edition, we explore some of the strategic questions shaping conversations in the energy sector today and provide you with tools and information that will be helpful when entering into contracts....more

RSA Conference Day 1: The Only Constant is Change

Wiley Rein LLP on 6/7/2022

I am at the RSA Conference 2022 in San Francisco, my first time as a member of the private sector, since retiring from the FBI last year. I attended one of the keynotes on the first day of the conference, in between panels on...more

Mitigating Energy Sector Risks Through Cyberinsurance

Morgan Lewis on 3/16/2022

Energy companies in the power and oil and gas sectors are leading targets of cyberattacks, as threats to critical infrastructure systems continue to rise. A 2021 report by a third-party cyberrisk company found that a quarter...more

Cybersecurity 2022 – The Year in Preview: Continued Threats to Nation’s Energy Supply as Regulators Race to Keep Up

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 2/2/2022

Continued Threats of Ransomware Attacks - As we reported in our 2021 Year in Preview series, we began 2021 anticipating that ransomware would be a serious threat to critical energy infrastructure. These concerns were...more

2022 Cyber Watch List: A look at 2021 and What’s to Come in the Year Ahead

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/19/2022

Privacy In Focus®- In 2021, cyber gained prominence as a top business risk and national security concern with ransomware attacks wreaking havoc on business operations and critical infrastructure. Companies large and small,...more

Kick-Starting Deployment of Clean Hydrogen in the United States – The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 1/18/2022

In 2021, we witnessed a number of important developments in the future role of hydrogen as part of the United States’ energy transition pathway. President Biden has empowered the secretary of energy, through new legislation...more

TSA issues second cybersecurity directive for pipeline companies

Hogan Lovells on 7/26/2021

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the issuance of a second security directive (Directive) that requires owners and operators of certain critical pipelines carrying hazardous liquids and natural gas to...more

Is The TSA Security Directive A Harbinger Of Oil And Gas Cybersecurity Regulations?

Husch Blackwell LLP on 7/16/2021

In the weeks that followed a ransomware attack on a domestic pipeline company, the federal government’s efforts to shore up the cybersecurity posture of America’s critical infrastructure and supply chains, including the oil...more

The Government’s Swift Response to Pipeline Cyberattack: Executive Order and TSA Security Directive

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 6/7/2021

On May 10, 2021, the hacking group DarkSide succeeded in shutting down the Colonial Pipeline with a ransomware attack that highlighted the vulnerability of the U.S. energy sector to cyberattacks. The attack led to a panic...more

DHS announces cybersecurity obligations for pipeline companies

Hogan Lovells on 6/4/2021

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a security directive (Directive) that, for the first time, imposes mandatory cybersecurity requirements on companies in the pipeline industry. ...more

President Biden’s Cybersecurity Order Takes Security Seriously

Lowndes on 5/19/2021

On May 12, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028 focused on improving the nation’s cybersecurity posture. The order follows the recent cyberattack on one of the nation’s largest pipelines, Colonial Pipeline, in which...more

Government Races to Secure Critical Infrastructure in Wake of Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack

Pierce Atwood LLP on 5/18/2021

One of the nation’s largest pipelines, Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel supplies, was forced to shut down on May 7 after it was targeted by a ransomware attack. Ransomware is a type of...more

Biden Administration Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/18/2021

The Biden Administration has issued the much-anticipated “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” Executive Order (EO), setting certain standards and requirements to prevent cyberattacks for government agencies, federal...more

Executive Order on Cybersecurity Sets Aggressive Timeline

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/17/2021

The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack prompted the issuance of a long-awaited executive order (EO) on improving U.S. cybersecurity. The EO mandates that, within six months, all federal agencies implement multi-factor...more

President Biden Signs Executive Order to Improve the Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 5/13/2021

On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order which is aimed at improving the nation’s cybersecurity and protecting federal government networks. The Executive Order has been in the works for some time, but the...more

Disruptionware VI: Cyber-Attack against Colonial Pipeline Illustrates Continued Vulnerability of American Energy and...

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/13/2021

Disruptionware attacks have become increasingly more common over the last few months. Just last month, I wrote about a dangerous disruptionware attack against a Florida Water Treatment Center that could have been a mass...more

Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Highlights Vulnerability of Nation’s Energy Sector

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel on 5/13/2021

This post is a follow up from our recent discussion of the cyberattack that took the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline offline last week and the growing threat ransomware poses to our nation’s energy system. On May 10, 2021, a...more

Pipeline Ransomware Attack Underscores Cyberthreats to Critical Infrastructure

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes on 5/13/2021

As has been reported, a recent ransomware attack has caused an interstate pipeline and fuel supplier to much of the eastern United States to shut down its operations. Although the attack did not compromise operational...more

Cyberattack Shuts Down Cross-Country Gas Pipeline System

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 5/11/2021

It was not a matter of if, but when. On Friday, Colonial Pipeline Company, the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, closed its entire 5,500-mile pipeline system that carries liquid fuels, including gasoline, from the Gulf Coast of...more

Cyberattack Forces Gas Pipeline Shutdown

Morgan Lewis on 2/26/2020

A cyberattack on a single gas compression facility resulted in the shutdown of a natural gas pipeline for two days, according to a recent alert from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

Financial Daily Dose 2.12.2020 | Top Story: Big Tech Antitrust Update

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/12/2020

Big-Tech/Antitrust Update: the FTC has demanded information from Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Alphabet Inc. regarding acquisitions of small firms over the past 10 years that may have been...more

New Syria, North Korea and Other Sanctions Provisions Enacted as Parts of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/2/2020

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (“NDAA 2020”), which includes numerous sanctions-related provisions. The law includes the previously introduced...more

Trump Administration's Proposed Prosecution of Pipeline Opponents: Weighing Human Rights Obligations and Congressional Support

Foley Hoag LLP - Global Business and Human... on 7/11/2019

The Trump Administration is using the reauthorization of a pipeline safety statute as an opening to insert new provisions that would give U.S. authorities broader latitude to thwart and criminalize the activities of...more

Summary of FERC Meeting Agenda for April 2019

White & Case LLP on 4/19/2019

Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s April 18, 2019 meeting, pursuant to the agenda as issued on April 11, 2019. Agenda items E-4 and C-4 have not been included due to...more

New TSA Cybersecurity Roadmap States Specific Requirements for Pipeline Industry - White House, DoD and Congress Remain Focused on...

Holland & Knight LLP on 12/17/2018

• The pipeline sector is a crucial aspect of the nation's economic and national security. While the sector has a host of regulators on various aspects of the industry from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), U.S....more

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