Onshore

• Represented an individual investor in a structured transaction for the development of a large South Texas Ranch, including the formation of multiple special purpose entities (SPEs) to own oil and gas fee interests and royalty interests in the ranch, the transfer of such oil and gas fee interests and existing non-participating royalty interests into the appropriate SPEs, and the negotiation with other family members of multiple oil and gas leases, term non-participating royalty interests, surface use agreements, produced water injection agreements, and other related documents, in a transaction initially valued in excess of $100 million.
• Representation of multiple oil and gas producers in the review and negotiation of drilling contracts (including IADC daywork and turnkey drilling contracts) and master service agreements with various drilling contractors and other oilfield service companies.
• Representation of multiple oil and gas producers in connection with joint interest audits conducted by co-lessees and co-working interest owners under both onshore and offshore operating agreements.
• Representation of a publicly traded oil and gas producer in the negotiation and documentation of a seismic survey participation agreement with a Fortune 100 major integrated oil and gas company, covering lands in the State of Louisiana, including the negotiation of the relevant seismic license and sublicense agreements.
• Representation of a publicly traded company in negotiation for the acquisition of gas storage rights, facilities, and attendant gas production operations.
• Representation of a privately held E&P company active in the State of Alaska in negotiating and structuring a recapitalization of the company for funding of development drilling in the North Slope of Alaska involving a three-tier equity investment structure and bridge financing and contribution of oil and gas properties and two active Alaskan oil and gas units.
• Representation in connection with gas cycling projects where liquids were stripped and the dry gas recycled into a reservoir.
• Representation of parties engaging financing sources for the development of oil and gas exploration projects using entities which have earned their way into the projects by providing expertise, technology or funding as their equity contribution.
• Representation of a privately held oil and gas producers in connection with multiple acquisitions of producing oil and gas properties in the Rocky Mountain and Permian Basin regions.
• Representation of a closely held oil and gas producer in connection with a private placement offering of U.S. oil and gas assets.
• Representation of an independent oil and gas producer in its formation of a limited partnership with an equity investment fund to serve as an investment vehicle to acquire, complete, and place on production drilled, but yet to be completed, gas wells.
• Representation of a privately owned U.S. oil and gas producer in negotiations with an Asian, government-controlled oil company concerning a lease acquisition and participation agreement pursuant to which the U.S. oil and gas producer would identify producing oil and gas acquisition opportunities within a defined area of interest (including the Eagle Ford Shale areas underlying eight Texas counties) and the foreign company would fund the acquisition of approved asset packages, with a funding commitment substantially in excess of $1 billion.
• Representation of a major private equity fund in structuring and negotiating an equity funding arrangement and a mineral interest acquisition and participation agreement for the accumulation of unleased and leased mineral interests in numerous counties in five states.
• Representation of multiple oil and gas producers in the negotiation and documentation of numerous enhanced oil recovery projects and investments, including those employing waterfloods, steam, and carbon dioxide.
• Representation of an independent oil and gas producer in negotiations with the Minerals Management Service and documentation of a secured “abandonment fund” as an alternative to furnishing to BOEM a supplemental surety bond demanded by BOEM to cover estimated plugging and abandonment liabilities.
• Representation of a major Texas university in the development and implementation of an oil and gas leasing strategy, including the design of a competitive bidding process
• Representation of a privately held oil and gas producer in connection with the negotiation and resolution of multiple disputes with landowners concerning surface use and surface damage issues.
• Representation of institutional trustees and other fiduciaries in oil and gas matters relating to large property holdings involving mineral rights, including negotiations with the lessees regarding operational disputes and the conducting of royalty audits.

Offshore

• Representation of a large independent oil and gas producer in the formation of a joint venture to develop gas reserves on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Representation of offshore producers to navigate the numerous and complex changes in regulations and policies of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement
• Representation of a publicly traded independent oil and gas producer in the negotiation and documentation of transactions with a Fortune 500 drilling contractor and several other offshore oilfield service providers pursuant to which the drilling contractor and other service providers provided drilling, service boat, helicopter, and other services in connection with the drilling of multiple wells on the Outer Continental Shelf in exchange for the producer’s conveyance of net profits interests in production from the affected OCS leases, having an aggregate transaction value in excess of $400 million.