Energy

We have experience in the exploration, production, transportation, marketing, and financing of oil and gas domestically and internationally. Our energy transactions attorneys have experience in acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures with respect to upstream oil and gas properties, pipelines, gathering systems, processing and treatment facilities, drilling and service company assets. Our attorneys have advised clients on financing oil and gas properties and have structured a wide range of financing arrangements including reserve-based mezzanine and conventional bank financing for oil and gas producers, volumetric production payments; project financing for natural gas storage facilities, distributive power generation projects, co-generation and landfill gas-to-electricity power projects; production-based mezzanine financings and mezzanine financing of distributive generation power projects and landfill gas-to-power projects.

Our attorneys have experience on a full range of industry contracts including  joint venture agreements,  asset purchase agreements, membership interest purchase agreements, partnership interest purchase agreements, mergers and other special purpose entity structures; exploration agreements, participation agreements and joint development agreements; production handling agreements, master service agreements, hedging agreements, including ISDA master swap agreements and master netting agreements, oil and gas sales contracts, including NAESB contracts; oil and gas transportation and gathering agreements including long term dedications to support infrastructure construction, volumetric production payment and net profits interest conveyances, oil and gas leases, farm-out and farm-in agreements, operating agreements, COPAS accounting procedures and gas balancing agreements, turnkey, day rate and footage rate drilling contracts – onshore, offshore, domestic and  ,Seismic data purchase and license agreements, area of mutual interest agreements and pooling and unitization agreements.