Practice Professionals
Related Practices
Our attorneys are versed in matters of Louisiana oil and gas law and routinely work with oil and gas companies and pipeline companies in connection with the relocation of facilities and the release of surface rights.
Oil and Gas & Natural Resource Title Opinions
Our attorneys have years of experience in examining mineral titles and have issued hundreds of fee title leasehold and division order title opinions covering both onshore and offshore properties. Our opinions commonly set forth the landowners' respective interests in the surface, minerals, bonuses, rentals, and royalties, by tract and/or unit, as well as the respective operating and revenue interests of the parties involved in developing the mineral properties. We also have many years of experience in issuing financing title opinions involving producing property interests. This helps ensure that the client has acquired all necessary property rights and has the information it needs to make payments and otherwise comply with oil and gas leases and other agreements.
Natural Resources, Energy & Oil and Gas Transactions
On behalf of clients, we manage mergers, acquisitions, and sales of assets or equities of oil and gas, power, and mining companies. We represent lenders and borrowers in secured production financing and limited recourse project financing of oil and gas, petrochemical, refining, power, pipeline, coal, and hard rock mining. We have handled domestic equity offerings of oil and gas service companies as well as the formation of partnerships, limited partnerships, joint ventures, LLCs, and other entities.
Natural Resources, Energy & Oil and Gas Operational Work
We advise operators, non-operators, investors, pipelines, power plant operators, service companies, and seismic companies in connection with the exploration, development, and operation of oil and gas and mining properties. We prepare and review documents and provide advice regarding leasing, assignments, pooling, and unitization matters; title issues, including resolving surface use issues in connection with real estate development matters; division order and royalty owner issues; production sales, transportation, and processing arrangements; and lease acquisition, exploration, drilling, and other development agreements. We represent clients, providing guidance, counsel, and advice with regard to regulatory matters before the State of Louisiana.
Midstream & Storage
Our attorneys handle oil and gas infrastructure issues and agreements including pipelines, for a full spectrum of oil and gas companies. Our experience includes the development, financing, sale and/or acquisition of natural gas pipelines and crude oil pipelines, gas storage facilities, gas processing and fractionation plants, and gas gathering systems.
Our experience with midstream matters includes:
- Contracts for gathering, transportation, processing, and gas storage
- Commodity purchase and sale transactions
- Facilities construction and installation agreements
- Facilities use agreements
- Natural gas hedging agreements
- Operations and maintenance agreements
- Pipeline, facility, and processing plant joint venture agreements
- Processing plant, pipeline and gathering system agreements
- Product sales agreements
- Production handling agreements
- Right-of-way agreements
- Service and purchase agreements
- Structuring and negotiating joint venture arrangements
- Surface and subsurface agreements
- Transportation and processing agreements
