Oil & Gas

The oil and gas practice of the Firm is diverse in client base and broad in scope. Representation includes exploration and production companies, gas processing and pipeline companies, gas storage companies, refineries, service companies, manufacturers and distributors of parts and equipment used in the industry, and end users.

Our extensive litigation expertise in this area includes successful representation in hundreds of complex oil and gas actions, including:

• Breach of contract
• Drainage
• Proper accounting for post-production costs
• Underreporting and underpayment of royalty
• Construction of oil and gas leases
• Surface and subsurface damages
• Construction of joint operating agreements
• Propriety of intra-company sales
• Determination of payout
• Gas balancing and oversold reserves
• Gas pipeline transportation, compression and dehydration charges
• Breach of warranty and products liability relating to down-hole failure cases
• Class actions
• Affiliate transactions
• Impropriety in natural gas liquids extraction plant operations
• Piercing the corporate veil
• Fraud, bad faith and tortious conduct giving rise to punitive damages
• RICO
• Anti-trust violations
• Collection of millions of dollars of unpaid joint interest billings
• Perfection and enforcement of liens on behalf of oil and gas companies and vendors
• Prosecution and defense of lien avoidance actions

Our extensive transactional and tax expertise in this area includes:

• Numerous initial- and secondary public offerings
• Annual reporting and disclosure requirements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Syndicated- and directly funded financing projects
• Oil and gas leases
• Drilling and service contracts,
• Joint development agreements
• Venture capital
• Bankruptcy
• Workouts and restructurings
• Drilling and/or division order title opinions 

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