• Interstate pipeline company — early stage development of a carbon capture and sequestration project in Louisiana utilizing existing pipeline infrastructure
• Major national pipeline company — development of multiple hydrogen production facilities utilizing natural gas and employing carbon capture equipment to reduce net carbon emissions as well as pipeline systems to transport the produced hydrogen . Investors include three major US oil and gas companies providing cash as well as natural gas to the facilities .
• Private equity midstream company — development of assets for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide from gas processing facilities . Bracewell ’ s engagement includes tax , environmental and corporate advice regarding eligibility for Code section 45Q credits for the with particular focus on the ability to use a Class II UIC permit , instead of a Class VI UIC permit , and the impact of state environmental regulation .
• Private equity-backed decarbonization project developer — development of a secure geological storage facility in the western United States . Bracewell ’ s engagement includes Code section 45Q guidance , environmental and corporate advice regarding the structure of the venture in the early development phase .
• Upstream oil and gas company — as special real estate and environmental counsel for the joint venture with an ethanol producer for the capture of CO2 from two production facilities and the transport of the CO2 by multiple pipelines for reinjection in the enhanced oil recovery operations of the upstream oil and gas company
• Upstream oil and gas company — development of facilities to capture carbon dioxide from gas processing facilities and store such carbon dioxide in secure geological storage . Bracewell ’ s engagement includes tax and environmental advice regarding eligibility for Code section 45Q credits with particular focus on the ability to use a Class II UIC permit , instead of a Class VI UIC permit , and the impact of state environmental regulation .
• Sysco Corporation — $ 1 billion offering of sustainability bonds to fund renewable energy , energy efficiency , clean transportation and waste reduction projects
• Energy infrastructure investment firm — investment in the development of a large-scale carbon capture facility to be operated in conjunction with a natural gas power plant
• White Rose CCS — lenders on the White Rose carbon capture project , United Kingdom *
• National and international energy companies and chemical manufacturers — carbon capture and storage , membrane separation and concentration , and absorption technologies advice and patent prosecutions
• Leading producer of LNG — carbon dioxide sequestration project in Texas
• NRG Energy , Inc . — lead M & A counsel for its Petra Nova carbon capture and enhanced oil recovery project located southwest of Houston , Texas in which JX Nippon acquired a 50 percent equity interest in the Petra Nova project
• Developer — development of an 800 MW “ carbon capture ready ” clean coal power facility and associated carbon dioxide transportation and storage system in the UK
• Developer — construction of a major salt cavern gas storage facility in the UK
* Work completed prior to Bracewell
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