Marjorie A.
McKeithen

Position: Partner
Office: New Orleans

Marjorie McKeithen co-chairs the firm’s Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Industry Team.

Marjorie affiliated with Jones Walker after serving as Secretary of the Louisiana Mineral and Energy Board and Assistant Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Office of Mineral Resources, where she oversaw the granting and administering of mineral leases, storage agreements, and alternative energy agreements on state-owned land and water bottoms. While serving as Secretary of the Louisiana Mineral and Energy Board, Marjorie undertook a comprehensive revision of Louisiana's statutory scheme relating to agreements for underground storage.

Marjorie routinely serves as project counsel for large infrastructure projects, including hydrogen and ammonia facilities (both blue and green hydrogen facilities), carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration, storage and enhanced recovery projects, wind energy facilities, chemical plants, petrochemical plants and refineries, pipelines, LNG and liquefaction facilities, solution-mining facilities, hydrocarbon storage facilities (salt dome and reservoir storage), and commercial saltwater disposal facilities.

She understands and helps clients navigate the challenges of being a first mover in a space. She served as counsel for both the first CO2 sequestration agreements with the State of Louisiana and the first offshore wind energy agreement in state waters in the Gulf of Mexico. She also obtained for her client the first certificate of public convenience and necessity from the State of Louisiana for a CO2 pipeline to transport CO2 to a storage facility.