Our Oil and Gas Group

Our Oil and Gas practice involves a full range of representation from landowners, drillers, junior oil and gas companies to national and multi-national corporations, service corporations, natural gas aggregators, transporters, and petrochemical owners and operators.  The practice in the oil and gas area includes legal aspects of oil and gas business including acquisitions and divestitures, oil and gas banking, title reviews and opinions, unitizations, regulatory procedures of all types, coal and methane projects, onshore and offshore drilling contracts, all aspects of the service business, service station leases and financing, natural gas and oil sales agreements, transportation agreements, construction and operating contracts for facilities, and agreements involving the petrochemical industry.

The Oil and Gas Group has its own data bank of the title records to numerous major producing areas in Canada, enabling Borden Ladner Gervais LLP to be particularly cost effective for our clients in handling title reviews and opinions.

Our Experience

Representation in all aspects of the energy industry including the following:

  • Acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas properties and facilities Joint venture agreements, Farmout agreements, operating agreements, royalty agreements and participation agreements
  • Title reviews and opinions
  • Transportation agreements
  • Gas sales agreements
  • Construction, financing and operating of petrochemical plants and pipelines
  • Environmental issues
  • Oil and gas taxation issues including cross-border transactions
  • National Energy Board and Alberta Energy and Utilities Board hearings
  • Oil and gas financings, including syndicated financings
  • Cogeneration projects
  • International transactions
  • Onshore and offshore drilling contracts
  • Transactions involving First Nations
  • Surface rights work
  • Unitization

Among Our Clients are:

  • Some of the largest producers in Canada, including offshore
  • One of the largest service station marketers in Canada
  • One of the largest drilling and service operations in Canada
  • Some of the largest natural gas transporters in Canada
  • A large petroleum trucking corporation
  • A large midstream corporation out of the U.S.
  • Numerous small public and private producers
  • One of the largest oil and gas labs and environmental consultants in Canada

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