Broad U.S. experience in all aspects of acquisition, exploration, and production in the Gulf Coast, Southwest, Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent Regions, Alaska, and offshore.

Substantial upstream experience with acquisitions of producing and non-producing oil and gas properties, both onshore and offshore, including fee lands, Indian lands, and state and federal lands (including Alaska).

Extensive work with conventional plays as well as un-conventional developments such as coalbed methane, tight gas sands, shale plays, and H2S, CO2, and high pressure zones.

Knowledgeable on tax-related issues such as 1031 exchanges, Section 29 credits, tax partnership agreements, unrelated business taxable income issues, mineral titles, leases, leasing, seismic agreements, exploration agreements, drilling contracts (IADC and custom), joint operating agreements (AAPL and AIPN), farmouts and farmins, gas balancing, oil and gas sales contracts, natural gas transportation agreements, gas processing agreements, dedication contracts, crude oil processing and exchange agreements, LNG contracts, pooling and unitization, and indemnification and anti-indemnification statutes.

Oil and gas lending (several billion dollars in oil and gas assets secured loans) on asset-based and corporate loans, representing both borrowers and lenders.  Non-conventional lending and financing based on production payments, net profits interests, back-ins, and carried interests.

Members of the firm are active in the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, the American Association of Professional Landmen, and other industry organizations, while one is a member of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.  A member chairs the AIPN Committee on Consultant Agreements for Business Development in a foreign country.

Production payment facilities and off-balance sheet facilities.

Project financings and synthetic leasing of Gulf deepwater and Outer Continental shelf platforms and associated offshore gathering and export lines, mainline expansions of interstate mainline and lateral gas pipelines, and expansion of interstate liquids pipelines.

Nationwide propane business divestiture.

Negotiation of construction and operating contracts for Gulf deepwater and on-shelf gathering systems and related onshore processing and interconnect infrastructure.

Oil concessions with Native American Tribes and Tribal Entities.

Securities (public and private equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, and credit facilities).

Representation of a wide range of energy companies (utilities, natural resources, and service companies) before the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

Crude oil and refined petroleum product transportation and marketing agreements in California, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah.

Acted as Qatari counsel for Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) and lenders to the $7 billion QG III LNG project, which reached financial close in December 2005.

Represented the Sultanate of Oman and Oman Oil Company in connection with the financial restructuring and sale by Oman, Russia, and Kazakhstan of a 50% interest in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium to a group of 11 international oil companies.

Represented a large U.S. independent in connection with a large offshore gas discovery off of South Africa including negotiation of operating agreements with other owners and acquisition of other interests in the field, construction contracts, and operating agreements for South American gathering, transmission, and gas injection projects.

Development agreements and financing for oil concessions in Kazakhstan and Hungary.

Represented Qatar Petroleum in connection with the structuring and documentation of shared facility arrangements between the Qatar Gas III and Qatar Gas IV projects.

Represented a large U.S. independent in connection with exploration in Oman, Turkey, Thailand, and Zambia including drilling and operating agreements and negotiations with governmental authorities, and acted as Qatari counsel for, the ECAs and lenders on the $12 billion QG II.

Handling disputes involving every type of upstream, midstream, and downstream activity, including title, exploration, drilling, development, production sales and processing, royalty calculations and payments, AMI and pref right issues, gas balancing, good faith pooling, unitization and unit operations, pipe failures, insurance coverage, surface and subsurface pollution, and federal state administrative agency regulation.