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Bracewell ’ s global gas practice has extensive experience across the entire gas value chain – from upstream gas production to downstream gas sales , and everything in between .

Upstream Gas Transactions

We help our clients acquire and develop upstream gas interests and invest in upstream gas developments , advising them on negotiations with other stakeholders , national gas companies and host governments . We have extensive experience assisting clients on merger and acquisition activity across the globe , ranging from cross-border asset deals to hybrid and bespoke transactional structures , and from small-scale farm-outs to high-value corporate and asset transactions .

Production sharing contracts , licenses , and concessions

Joint operating agreements and shareholders ’ agreements

Share purchases and asset sales and farm-outs

Upstream financing

Unitization

Decommissioning and abandonment

Commercialization of shale gas

Commercialization of nonassociated and associated gas

Drilling , seismic and G & G contracts

Carbon capture

FEED , T & I , EPC , EPCI and EPCIC contracts

Our lawyers have advised on :

• The sale and purchase of upstream gas assets and associated infrastructure across the globe , having acted on transactions on every continent , assisting on deals in traditional gas markets and new frontier regions

• Arbitrations in relation to liability for costs under a PSC , gas metering and allocation disputes , gas supply ( as LNG feedstock ) agreements , and termination and breach disputes under a range of contracts pertaining to gas assets

• Decommissioning and abandonment of gas fields in mature markets , notably the Gulf of Mexico and the UK North Sea

• Multiple single and cross-border gas field unitizations

• Financing of the development of gas fields using RBL financing , and conventional and hybrid debt products including revolving credit facilities

• Drilling contracts on behalf of operators and oil and gas service companies

• Carbon capture initiatives in connection with oil and gas enhanced recovery projects

• Front-end engineering and design ( FEED ) contracts , Transportation and Installation ( T & I ) contracts , Engineering , Procurement and Construction ( EPC ), Engineering , Procurement , Construction and Installation ( EPCI ) contracts and Engineering , Procurement , Construction , Installation and commissioning ( EPCIC ) contracts ) relating to upstream gas projects across the globe bracewell . com