Baker Botts has as long history assisting clients with the development of pipeline projects, particularly those used to transport crude oil, other liquid hydrocarbons and natural gas. In addition to serving as project counsel, the firm represents principal investors, producer consortia, pipeline companies, end-user owners, lenders, operators, shippers, construction contractors and acquirers of existing and new pipeline projects.
Our project teams are multidisciplinary and include lawyers that are intimately familiar with the many issues and disciplines involved in a pipeline project, including the following: tax; project development; business organization; relevant regulatory regimes; health, safety and environmental commitments; business competition laws; and project finance. Our lawyers assist clients with the development, negotiation, and drafting of all of the various project agreements. We also provide counsel with respect to the arrangement of required concessions, host government agreements and treaty regimes necessary to support the project.
Baker Botts has been recognized as one of the top energy law firms, maintaining one of the finest oil & gas regulatory groups around, which undertakes regulatory support for our strong LNG practice. We represent oil & gas producers, shippers, and utilities in the full range of FERC counseling and litigation. Our transactional work encompasses corporate and commercial advice, securities, M&A and asset acquisition and divestiture, across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors.
Representative Pipeline Arrangements Include:
- Funding and development agreements
- Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts and other forms of construction contracts
- Transportation service agreements and capacity rights agreements
- Gathering, storage, processing and treating agreements
- Rate design and tariff arrangements
- Concessions, licenses, treaties and other governmental agreements
- Ownership and operating agreements
- Fuel supply arrangements
- Lifting and marine terminal agreements
- Interconnection, expansion and extension agreements
- Asset sale, transfer and purchase agreements
- Finance documentation
- Health, safety and maintenance agreements
- Land use rights and acquisition arrangements
- Tax, Customs and related rights
- Quality bank procedures
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Large Midstream Company - 45Q Tax Credits for Utilization of CO2 and Associated Lifecycle Analysis (LCA)
RBC as Initial Purchasers - $400 Million Notes Offering by Howard Energy Partners
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC - DCP Midstream, LP's $400 Million Senior Notes Offering
Intrepid Financial Partners, LLC - Financial Advisor in Hess Midstream Operations LP's $750 Million Unit Repurchase of 31 Million Class B Units of Hess Midstream Partners LP
KNOT Offshore Partners, LP - $100 Million At-the-Market Program
EnLink Midstream, LLC - $60 Million Acquisition of All of the Equity Interests in Amarillo Rattler, LLC
CitiGroup Global Markets, Inc. - Private Placement Agent in Crestwood Equity Partners LP's Acquisition of Common Units
Global Partners LP - $75 Million Public Equity Offering
Summit Midstream Partners, LP - $15 Million Exchangeable Equity Offering
Conflicts Committee of Noble Midstream GP LLC - Chevron Corporation's Acquisition of Outstanding Common Units of Noble Midstream Partners LP
Summit Midstream Partners, LP - Summit Midstream Holdings, LLC and Summit Midstream Finance Corp.'s $700 Million Senior Notes Offering
Southern Company Gas - $50 Million Sale of Sequent Energy Management, L.P. and Sequent Energy Canada Corp.
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP - $750 Million Notes Offering
Bank of America Securities - Global Partners LP's $350 Million Senior Notes Offering
Summit Midstream Partners, LP - $60 Million Cash Tender Offer
Enlink Midstream, LLC - $500 Million Senior Notes Offering
Tallgrass Energy, LP - $600 Million Senior Notes Offering
Delek US Holdings, Inc. - Elimination of Incentive Distribution Rights in Exchange for New Limited Partner Interests in Delek Logistics Partners
Conflicts Committee of CNX Midstream GP LLC - $357 Million Acquisition of CNX Midstream
Summit Midstream Partners LP - Exchange Offering
Summit Midstream Partners, LP - $35 Million Acquisition
Underwriters - DCP Midstream, LP's $500 Million Senior Notes Offering
Colonial Pipeline Company - Purchase of Three Refined Product Terminals
Magellan Midstream Partners - Terminal Sale
Teekay LNG Partners L.P. - Elimination of All of the Incentive Distribution Rights in TGP
Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. - Acquisition of Mattox Pipeline Company LLC Interest and Certain Logistics Assets at the Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex
Matador Resources - Formation of San Mateo Midstream II, LLC
SunCoke Energy, Inc. - Acquisition of SunCoke Energy Partners, LP
EQT Midstream Partners, LP - Addition of Joint Venture Partner for MVP Southgate Lateral
National Gas Company - ICC Arbitration- EPC Contract Dispute
Vega Energy Partners - Appalachia Gathering System
Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. - Public Offering of Common Units
Tallgrass Development, LP - Negotiation and Documentation of Acquisition of Membership Interests
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP - $400 Million Public Offering of Senior Notes
Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC - Sale of Interests
Shell Trading Company - Colonial Pipeline Company
Valero Energy Partners, LP - $196 Million Public Offering of Common Units
Citigroup - $1 Billion Public Offering of Senior Notes by Plains All American Pipeline, LP
EQT GP Holdings, LP - $714 Million Initial Public Offering
Citigroup - $49.6 Million Public Offering of Common Units of Azure Midstream Partners, LP
EQT Corporation - Sale of Northern West Virginia Marcellus Gathering System
Tallgrass Energy GP, LP - $1.2 Billion Initial Public Offering
Occidental Petroleum Corporation - Sale of Bridge Tex Pipeline
Energy Infrastructure Assets Corporation - Acquisition of North West Pipeline
Underwriters - $300 Million Rule 144A Offering Senior Notes by Global Partners LP
Conflicts Committee of Williams Partners, L.P. - Merger with Access Midstream Partners
EQT Corporation - Sale of Company
Tallgrass Development, LP - Sale of Interests
Enable Midstream Partners - Initial Public Offering of MLP
Conflicts Committee of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) and Special Committee of Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) - Acquisition by Kinder Morgan Inc.
SunTrust - $350 Million Public Offering of Senior Notes by TC PipeLines, LP
Valero Energy Partners LP - Initial Public Offering
Steel Pipe Manufacturer - U.S. Seemless Pipe Mill
Crosstex energy, Inc. and Crosstex Energy, L.P. - Merger to Create EnLink Midstream Partners
Delek Logistics Partners, LP - Initial Public Offering
Western Refining Company, L.P. - East Line
International Investment Bank - $89 Million Public Offering
Underwriters - Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.'s $750 Million Senior Notes Offering
Underwriters to Enbridge Energy Partners, LP - $1.6 Billion Public Offering of Senior Notes
Oilfield Services Company - 45Q Tax Credit Advice
BP America Inc. - Sale of its Upstream Alaska Business to Hilcorp
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2021 Baker Botts/Baker Institute Virtual Energy Summit
Please join us for the fifth consecutive year as Baker Botts and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute co-host an energy summit.
2020 Baker Botts/Baker Institute Virtual Energy Summit
Join us for the fourth consecutive year as Baker Botts and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute, co-host a virtual conference for the annual Energy Summit.
2020 Baker Botts/Baker Institute Virtual Energy Summit
Join us for the fourth consecutive year as Baker Botts and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute, co-host a virtual conference for the annual Energy Summit.
2020 Baker Botts/Baker Institute Virtual Energy Summit
Join us for the fourth consecutive year as Baker Botts and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute, co-host a virtual conference for the annual Energy Summit.
2020 Baker Botts/Baker Institute Virtual Energy Summit
Join us for the fourth consecutive year as Baker Botts and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute, co-host a virtual conference for the annual Energy Summit.