Anna R. Irion
Practice Areas
Experience
- Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)
- Energy Acquisition & Disposition
- Oil & Gas Real Estate
- Pipeline & Midstream
- Produced Water
- Renewable Energy
- Shale & Unconventional Resources
- Upstream Oil & Gas
Biography
Anna Irion is a Houston energy attorney who focuses on transactional matters in the energy industry. Anna represents natural gas gatherers, processors, and producers, crude oil transporters and producers, produced water gathering and disposal companies, interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines, storage and terminaling operators, service providers, and investors. Anna has substantial experience in negotiating, drafting, and restructuring the following: oil, gas, and water dedication and minimum volume commitment gathering agreements; gas processing agreements; crude oil transportation, storage, terminaling, and throughput and deficiency agreements; produced water gathering and disposal agreements; interconnection agreements; E&P and midstream asset purchase and sale agreements; interstate and intrastate pipeline project agreements and associated documents.
In addition to negotiating and drafting the above, Anna works with many clients in restructuring volume and other financial commitments in existing agreements to address operations in the continually evolving energy climate. By collaborating with the upstream, midstream, and downstream parties, she has helped her clients reach amicable solutions in lieu of facing litigation.
Among her mergers and acquisition experience, she has represented buyers and sellers in the acquisition and divestiture of upstream and midstream crude oil and natural gas assets in several states, including Texas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma and other states, as well as assisted clients with Federal and State regulations relating to the construction and operations of facilities and related filings.
Anna’s ultimate goal for each transaction is get it to the finish line in the most time and cost-efficient manner possible. By discussing the clients’ needs, wants, and ultimate goals at the very beginning stages of a project, she and her clients begin the process in an ideal position for moving the transaction along smoothly. Throughout the process, Anna consistently reassesses the clients’ needs to ensure that all of the parties are communicating and are on the same page and that she and her clients have the opportunity to determine whether the original plan of action is the best avenue to achieve the desired outcome.
Education
B.A., magna cum laude, Texas State University
J.D., cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law
- Dean’s Scholarship Recipient
- Dean’s List
- Judges Committee, Jackson Walker Moot Court Board
Bar Admissions
Texas
- Represented refined oil products pipeline company in the development of a refined products marine supply project, including the negotiation and drafting of interconnection agreements, a terminaling agreement, pipeline modification agreements, pipeline lease agreements, a pipeline operating agreement, pipeline bypass agreements, and applicable tariffs.
- Represented tribal-owned natural gas gathering and treating company in the negotiation and execution of various gas gathering and treating agreements and in the renegotiating of numerous, long-term minimum volume commitment gathering agreements in order to assist producers in avoiding breaches of commitment obligations.
- Drafted and negotiated minimum volume commitment transportation services agreement and assisted with open season publication on behalf of crude oil, refined products, liquefied petroleum gases, natural gas liquids, and chemical feedstocks pipeline.
- Represented exploration and production company in dedication dispute following acquisition of large acreage package and associated dedicated interests.
- Represented natural gas and natural gas liquids midstream company in negotiating and executing 311 Transportation Services Agreements and related interconnection agreements.
- Reviewed and summarized dozens of gas purchase and sale agreements and NAESB Contracts on behalf of energy suppliers in connection with litigation following Winter Storm Uri.
- Negotiated and drafted ethylene pipeline construction and transportation services agreement and applicable local tariffs on behalf of pipeline and plastics manufacturing facilities owner and operator.
- Represented liquids terminaling company in the negotiation and drafting of terminaling services agreements and related interconnection agreements and rail offloading agreements.
- Negotiated and drafted railcar storage and services agreement on behalf of transloading terminal owner and operator.
- Represented pipeline owner in negotiating and drafting long-term pipeline lease agreement providing for operatorship of pipeline and purchase right of first refusal.
- Drafted and negotiated ten-year transportation agreement and the necessary regulatory filings for the interstate transportation of crude oil in North Dakota.
- Represented client in all pre and post-closing stages in the acquisition of 18,000 net acres in Houston and Madison Counties, Texas for $720 million which included 30 square miles of 3-D seismic data, a salt water disposal system, 36 net producing wellbores, and 136 proved undeveloped drilling locations.
- Counsel for client in all phases of the sale of its three subsidiary companies and Oklahoma assets (which included treating and compression facilities, three cryogenic processing plants, and 66 miles of gathering pipelines) for $600 million. Prior to the sale, drafted and negotiated related gathering and processing agreements.
- Represented client in all phases of the sale of substantially all of its natural gas gathering assets (which included both rich and lean systems) in South Texas for approximately $215 million.
- Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, 2013-2018
- State Bar of Texas Houston Bar Association
- Houston Gas Processors Association
- American Petroleum Institute – Houston Chapter
- American Association of Professional Landmen
- The Women’s Energy Network
- Association of Women Attorneys
- Board of Directors for SIRE and SIRE’s Governance Committee, past Board Member
February 3, 2022
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We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our friend and partner Amanda Shaw-Castro. Amanda was a rising star and leader who left behind a legacy of loyalty and kindness.
March 31, 2018
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All stages of the acquisition, development, and operation of upstream and midstream facilities and with the drafting and negotiation of the following:
- Asset and membership interest purchase and sale agreements
- Natural gas gathering, treating, processing, and marketing agreements
- Crude oil transportation and storage agreements
- Crude oil and natural gas throughput and deficiency agreements
- NGL sales and exchange agreements
- Easements and rights-of-way
- Operating agreements
- Construction and interconnect agreements
She also has experience with the following:
- Federal and state regulations relating to gathering and transmission facilities.
- Formation of joint venture relationships for midstream and upstream activities.
- Acquisition and leasing of mineral interests
- Regulations applicable to cross-border pipeline facilities
Practice Experience
- Represented refined oil products pipeline company in the development of a refined products marine supply project, including the negotiation and drafting of interconnection agreements, a terminaling agreement, pipeline modification agreements, pipeline lease agreements, a pipeline operating agreement, pipeline bypass agreements, and applicable tariffs.
- Represented tribal-owned natural gas gathering and treating company in the negotiation and execution of various gas gathering and treating agreements and in the renegotiating of numerous, long-term minimum volume commitment gathering agreements in order to assist producers in avoiding breaches of commitment obligations.
- Drafted and negotiated minimum volume commitment transportation services agreement and assisted with open season publication on behalf of crude oil, refined products, liquefied petroleum gases, natural gas liquids, and chemical feedstocks pipeline.
- Represented exploration and production company in dedication dispute following acquisition of large acreage package and associated dedicated interests.
- Represented natural gas and natural gas liquids midstream company in negotiating and executing 311 Transportation Services Agreements and related interconnection agreements.
- Reviewed and summarized dozens of gas purchase and sale agreements and NAESB Contracts on behalf of energy suppliers in connection with litigation following Winter Storm Uri.
- Negotiated and drafted ethylene pipeline construction and transportation services agreement and applicable local tariffs on behalf of pipeline and plastics manufacturing facilities owner and operator.
- Represented liquids terminaling company in the negotiation and drafting of terminaling services agreements and related interconnection agreements and rail offloading agreements.
- Negotiated and drafted railcar storage and services agreement on behalf of transloading terminal owner and operator.
- Represented pipeline owner in negotiating and drafting long-term pipeline lease agreement providing for operatorship of pipeline and purchase right of first refusal.
- Drafted and negotiated ten-year transportation agreement and the necessary regulatory filings for the interstate transportation of crude oil in North Dakota.
- Represented client in all pre and post-closing stages in the acquisition of 18,000 net acres in Houston and Madison Counties, Texas for $720 million which included 30 square miles of 3-D seismic data, a salt water disposal system, 36 net producing wellbores, and 136 proved undeveloped drilling locations.
- Counsel for client in all phases of the sale of its three subsidiary companies and Oklahoma assets (which included treating and compression facilities, three cryogenic processing plants, and 66 miles of gathering pipelines) for $600 million. Prior to the sale, drafted and negotiated related gathering and processing agreements.
- Represented client in all phases of the sale of substantially all of its natural gas gathering assets (which included both rich and lean systems) in South Texas for approximately $215 million.
Recognition & Accolades
- Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters, 2013-2018
Community Involvement
- State Bar of Texas Houston Bar Association
- Houston Gas Processors Association
- American Petroleum Institute – Houston Chapter
- American Association of Professional Landmen
- The Women’s Energy Network
- Association of Women Attorneys
- Board of Directors for SIRE and SIRE’s Governance Committee, past Board Member
Areas of Focus
All stages of the acquisition, development, and operation of upstream and midstream facilities and with the drafting and negotiation of the following:
- Asset and membership interest purchase and sale agreements
- Natural gas gathering, treating, processing, and marketing agreements
- Crude oil transportation and storage agreements
- Crude oil and natural gas throughput and deficiency agreements
- NGL sales and exchange agreements
- Easements and rights-of-way
- Operating agreements
- Construction and interconnect agreements
She also has experience with the following:
- Federal and state regulations relating to gathering and transmission facilities.
- Formation of joint venture relationships for midstream and upstream activities.
- Acquisition and leasing of mineral interests
- Regulations applicable to cross-border pipeline facilities