Cases
Experience: Natural Gas Midstream: Purchased a Hinshaw natural gas pipeline serving Kansas City from the Bishop Group.
Sold Tom Brown, Inc.'s Piceance
Uintah gas gathering
processing network to various counterparties.
Purchased the Phillips 66 natural gas liquids line from Casper, Wyoming to Denver.
Purchased Panh
le Eastern's natural gas gathering
processing system in the Wattenberg area, Colorado for KN Energy.
Mediated the major gas wellhead dedication dispute between Anadarko
DCP Midstream regarding processing rights from the Wattenberg Field, Colorado involving 7,000 wells.
Sold a Texas intrastate pipeline to Lone Star Gas.
Represented Max Midstream in the purchase of an intrastate natural gas pipeline between Victoria
Houston for conversion to oil service.
Developed numerous gas pipeline laterals in Mexico for service to major industries.
Purchased the TransColorado intrastate pipeline for KN Energy.
Advised the Southern Ute Indian Tribe on the valuation of its gas pipeline
processing assets in Colorado
New Mexico.
H
led the $30 billion spin-out of natural gas midstream
downstream assets in the U.S.
Canada from Duke Energy to form Spectra Energy.
H
led the merger of American Oil & Gas, a Texas intrastate pipeline, into KN Energy.
Represented MCN Energy in the sale of its interests in two gas gathering systems: American Central Western Oklahoma
American Central Eastern Texas.
Represented MCN Energy in the sale of several Gulf of Mexico gas gathering
processing systems: Blue Dolphin Pipeline
Gulf Coast NGL Pipeline
Mobile Bay Processing Partners,
Dolphin Isl
Gathering Partners.
Represented Duke Energy Income Fund in the acquisition of a gas processing
gathering network in Alberta
British Columbia from Western Resources.
Advised Peak Energy of Durango, Colorado on its spin out of its Piceance Basin
Barnett Shale midstream assets into a separate entity, Momentum Energy.
Established a joint venture with TransCanada to develop industrial pipeline laterals off of TransCanada's Mayakan
Bajio pipelines in central
southern Mexico.
Development of the Monterrey pipeline project, a 100-mile, 36' gas pipeline built by Kinder Morgan from the U.S. to Monterrey, Mexico.
Upstream Hydrocarbons: In Re Application for Special Field Rule - Panh
le Field. Trial attorney representing the applicants for a new conservation rule in the West Panh
le Field in the famous 'White Oil' proceeding. Second longest administrative hearing in the history of the Texas Railroad Commission.
Advised Sempra Energy Production Company on the sale of the largest package of undeveloped shale properties in American history to a private buyer.
Gigot, et al. v. KN Energy. Trial attorney in market value class-action royalty case in the Kansas Hugoton Field impacting over 400 natural gas wells.
Drafted complex correlative rights agreement between coal mineral owner
hydrocarbon rights owners as part of the sale of certain coal mining properties owned by Consolidation Coal Company in Pennsylvania
West Virginia.
Drafted mineral deeds severing un-mineable coal bed methane rights from the minable coal estate in a 50,000 acre parcel in Southern Colorado.
Counsel to a Polish oil
gas company in the purchases of a private, Salt Lake City oil
gas company with assets in Utah, Wyoming
Pol
a private company with assets in Alberta, Canada.
Negotiated a settlement of the relative entitlements of a public utility
the gas mineral owner under the 1920 Amarillo B Contract which encumbered 250,00 acres in the Texas Panh
le.
Negotiated a settlement of the processing rights under 100,000 acres of gas mineral estate under the 1954 Westpan Deed in the West Panh
le Field.
Represented the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Natural Gas Initiative, a $70 billion project to allow Western major oil
gas companies to make foreign direct investment in Kingdom natural gas reservoirs.
Advised Duke Energy Hydrocarbons, a Gulf of Mexico offshore oil
gas producer on its sale to Marlin Energy.
Advised Sempra Energy Production Company on its executory rights associated with the Sabine Royalty Trust.
Represented the Southern California Public Power Authority in the purchase of non-operated gas interests in the Pinedale Anticline, Wyoming from Anschutz.
Represented the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in the purchase of coal bed methane interests in New Mexico from El Paso.
Negotiated on behalf of PKN Orlen, a Polish energy company, shale gas joint ventures in the U.S.
Pol
.
Advised Progress Energy of the sale of its Piceance Basin (Colorado) E&P subsidiary to EnCana.
Advised KLT Gas on tis divestiture of its Rocky Mountain
South Texas E&P assets to Shell
Gulfport.
Advised the Slough Estates, a UK entity, on its sale of Tipperary Oil
Gas Australia to Santos.
Advised Armstrong Oil & Gas on the sale of its North Slope, Alaska assets to Italian company, Eni.
Natural Gas Utility: Purchased the Rocky Mountain Natural Gas distribution system for KN Energy.
Sold KN Energy's Kansas natural gas distribution network to a co-op.
Advised natural gas utilities in Oregon, California, Nevada, New York
Massachusetts on their defenses to methane reduction initiatives being asserted in courts, municipalities
legislatures.
As a business executive developed
built the natural gas distribution network in the State of Sonora, Mexico.
H
led numerous gas distribution rate cases before the public utility commissions of Kansas, Colorado
Wyoming
municipalities of Nebraska.
Litigated governmental 'takings' violations of municipal utility properties against the Nebraska Public Power Authority.
Natural Gas Storage: H
led the responses to CalGems regarding the Aliso Canyon Storage Field blow out, the alleged largest release of methane in U.S. history. The work involved supervising contracts under the legal privilege expert report preparation on seismic, geologic, reservoir engineering, rock mechanics, surface conditions, safety,
pipe integrity matters.
Trial attorney in KN Energy v. Marathon for Marathon's trespass of injected storage gas in Nebraska.
H
led legal matters in development of new conventional
salt gas storage fields in Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania
Louisiana.
Advised the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District on its proposed acquisition of a gas storage field.
Advised KN Energy on legal issues associated with the blow-downs of gas storage fields in Texas, Kansas
Colorado.
Liquified Natural Gas: Settled (for over $100 million) an LNG supply breach litigation by Panh
le Eastern against the national oil company of Algeria. Dispute had been pending for 20 years
led to a contentious international arbitration in London. Sonatrach
Sonatrading Amsterdam v. Duke Energy LNG Sales, Inc.
Co-represented the national company of Algeria in a $500 million international arbitration in Switzerl
with another international oil company in a U.S. LNG terminal capacity dispute.
Negotiated the settlement of a major gasified LNG sales litigation, Citrus Trading Corp. v. Duke Energy LNG Sales, Inc.
Drafted the form DES LNG Sales Agreement used by the national oil company of Algeria.
Represented Texas LNG, an LNG export project in Brownsville, Texas, on legal issues from project conception, legal structuring FERC/DOE filings, interim financing, permitting
eventual sale.
Represent Gulfstream LNG, an LNG export project in Louisiana on legal issues, firm project conception, FERC/DOE filings,
l
matters.
Represented the Alaska LNG project developer on numerous legal issues.
Legal advisor to a Blue Ribbon panel selected by the Alaska Governor to analyze potential monetization of North Slope Alaska royalty gas, including LNG exports
a transportation gas pipeline.
Counsel to Fulcrum LNG on its winning RFP submission to the Republic of Guyana on the development of an offshore LNG export facility
negotiating the concession agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Represented Loyd International in the brokerage of an LNG contract between Qatar Gas
Gujarat Petroleum Company for imports into India.
Represent an LNG project in the Houston Ship Channel where the LNG will be used to fuel cruise ships in Galveston.
Hydrogen/Ammonia: Represented a major international industrial gas company in the purchase of a SMR hydrogen plan in Indiana.
Represent a Blue ammonia project developer in North Dakota
Washington State.
Drafted a form Blue ammonia purchase
sale agreement for a South Korean importer.
Representing the developer of hydrogen fuel fill facilities for commercial trucks using hydrogen fuel cells, including the negotiation of hydrogen sales agreements
renewable natural gas feed stock.
Representing the developers of a Green hydrogen plan in Delaware.
Consulted with a small law firm in Iowa regarding the development of native ('White') hydrogen in the local area.
Represented a Green ammonia project developer in South Texas.
Represent a French stimulated hydrogen company in projects in the Western United States.
Hydrocarbon Commodity Marketing: Represented DCP Midstream in the purchase of a 10-year supply of propane for its northeastern U.S. distribution business from the national oil company of Algeria.
Represented Harvard University in a long-term natural gas supply agreement for its on-campus power
steam generation facilities.
Represented Fuel Fusion International on the establishment of a business, logistics,
commodity contracts to import gasoline
diesel to Mexico.
Represented the largest gasoline station owner in Haiti with a sales agreement of gasoline
diesel from the United States.
Represented a major shopping center on the Las Vegas Strip on a natural gas, cooling water
steam contract with a central utility plant owner.
Represented a Canadian central utility plant developer in supplying natural gas, water, power
steam to a renewable plastics plant in Georgia.
Negotiated, drafted or h
led legal issues associated with literally dozens of manuscript natural gas purchase
sale agreements.
Documented the sale of a long-term $5 billion sale of crude oil from Rozneft to Polish refiner, PKN Orlen.
Represented Spectra Energy on international propane purchase
sale agreements with SEA-3, a subsidiary of Transammonia, Inc.
Chesapeake Propane, a subsidiary of UGI Corp.
Represented a Mexican wholesale gasoline/diesel distributor in creating a new US/Mexico fuel export legal structure involving commodity contracts, permits
rail transportation arrangements.
Representing a Spanish wholesale bunker-fuel, gasoline
diesel distributor in creating a U.S.-Global fuel export/import legal structure.
Inert Gasses: Gigot, et al. v. Cities Service Gas, et al. Trial attorney representing KN Energy in famous multi-jurisdictional case involving ownership
royalties due for helium in the Kansas Hugoton Field.
Represented insurance company lenders in an over $100 million secured financing of interest in helium production from the Satanta helium plant in Kansas.
Represented mineral interest owner in the monetization of a world-class helium
carbon dioxide discovery in Arizona.
Represented a major, international gas company in the renegotiation of a series of helium, carbon dioxide, nitrogen
carbon monoxide purchase
sale agreement as part of a merger process.
Purchased the Sunflower Helium Plant in Kansas from Cities Service.
Purchased a failed helium plant in Colorado from Mitsui.
Represented MCN Energy in the sale of the Keyes Helium Plan, Oklahoma to a private equity fund.
Assisted a Japanese entity restructure a Siberian helium supply arrangement with Russia that would not violate international sanctions
advising on contract performance issues.
Assisting a U.S. entity on Russian helium take-or-pay issues.
Carbon Capture Sequestration: Represented an investor in a CCS project in Illinois where the carbon is emitted from an ammonia plant.
Project development counsel for Summit Carbon, the largest CCS project in the world where carbon dioxide is being emitted from over 50 ethanol plants in 5 Midwestern states
sequestered in North Dakota.
Counsel to a private equity fund established to purchase royalty interests from l
owners owning CCS pore space in Texas.
Counsel to a producer in California on a unique CCS project where the producer owns both the carbon source
pore space.
Represented MCN Energy in the sale of two Trinity CO 2 EOR pipelines in Texas
Wyoming to Petro Source Partners
Petro Source Carbon.
Represent Rice University in the lease of subsurface pore space in Louisiana to potential CCS developers.
Represented an industrial gas supplier who will provide dry air
oxygen to OXY's direct air capture plant in Texas.
BioFuels: Represent a lender providing the financing to a Louisiana firm that will sequester carbon solids produced for sugar cane mill bagasse.
Represented a Japanese company in its investment in a dairy waste biogas project in Indiana.
Represented a Nevada utility in the purchase of biogas from numerous projects across the United States.
Represented a Nevada utility in the sale of RNG to a bus fleet in Las Vegas owned by a regional transportation district.
Represented a consortium of insurance companies in their investment in several l
fill biogas projects in the Eastern United States.
Represented the bond underwriters for a waste food biogas project in California.
Representing a biogas developer in converting a wood cellulose plant in Washington State.
Represented bond underwriters in the development of two municipal solid waste to bio-oil facilities in Texas.
Represented a private equity fund in the failed acquisition of an operating sustainable aviation fuel facility in California.
Coal: Represented Consolidation Coal Company in its sale of unionized mines in Illinois, Pennsylvania
West Virginia to Murray Energy. This was the largest coal asset sale in U.S. history.
Helped restructure 52 coal sales or marketing contracts as part of the Consol deal.
Sale of Synergy Coal Company with assets in West Virginia
Kentucky to American Resources.
Represented Synergy Coal Company in the purchase of coal processing
load-out facilities in West Virginia from Alpha Resources.
Sale of Wyoming Fuel Company, the largest coal company in Colorado to Montana Power Company.
Advised on the closure of surface mines in Tennessee, Missouri
Wyoming.
Other Experience: Represent the inventor of an innovative wind power generation technology in commercialization of the technology.
Represented Peruvian agricultural products company, Viru, in its acquisition of an international frozen agricultural products company with operations in the U.S., China, Guatemala
Columbia.
Counsel to Vestas Research
Development in the formation of a wind power research joint venture with Texas Tech University, S
ia National Laboratories
the National Institute for Renewable Energy.
Represented a Swiss marketing
trading company in the contract production of oil-based lubricants in Mexico for distribution in Latin America.
Advised Vestas R&D Singapore on a wind research joint venture with Deakin University (Australia), Boeing,
General Motors.
Advised Vestas R&D on the restructuring of research contracts with public/private entities in China, Norway, Denmark, the Netherl
s, Singapore
the U.K.
Advised MBIA Insurance Corporation on the feasibility of the utility bond restructuring plan of Western Resources, Inc.
prepared expert testimony on this matter before the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Advised Venoco, Inc., a California exploration
production company, as to the fairness to the company
shareholders of a proposed lawsuit settlement with the form CEO.
Settled a major class-action personal injury case involving alleged BTEX exposure to third-parties from a gas liquids fractionation plan in Douglas, Wyoming.
Assisted an entity in the creation of an international forest planting venture that would generate certified carbon credits.
Development of an international energy investment strategic plan
identification of targeted investments for Dubai Energy, an energy development arm of the Emirate of Dubai.
Advised Liwa Energy, a business entity of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi,
Occidental Petroleum on the formation of a strategic relationship with the national oil company of Kazakhstan, KazMunayGas,
on an offer to acquire the assets of PetroKazakhstan of Calgary, Alberta.
Lead business negotiator to acquire the Thermo Company's $300 million interest in the largest independent gas-fired power generation business in the Rock Mountain West.
Chair of the strategic planning team that developed a new, $1.5 billion international business plan as part of the proposed KN/Sempra Energy merger.
