Anna Irion is a Houston energy attorney who focuses on transactional matters in the energy industry. Anna represents clients spanning the energy sector, including natural gas gatherers, processors, and producers, crude oil transporters and producers, produced water gathering and disposal companies, interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines, carbon producers and carbon capture, transportation, and sequestration providers, storage and terminaling operators, service providers, and investors, as well as data centers in acquiring natural gas for the self-generation of power. Anna has substantial experience in negotiating, drafting, and restructuring the following: oil, gas, and water dedication and minimum volume commitment gathering agreements; gas processing agreements; crude oil transportation, storage, terminaling, and throughput and deficiency agreements; CO2 transportation and sequestration agreements; produced water gathering and disposal agreements; interconnection agreements; E&P and midstream asset purchase and sale agreements; interstate and intrastate pipeline project agreements and associated documents.

In addition to negotiating and drafting the above, Anna works with many clients in restructuring volume and other financial commitments in existing agreements to address operations in the continually evolving energy climate. By collaborating with the upstream, midstream, and downstream parties, she has helped her clients reach amicable solutions in lieu of facing litigation.

Among her mergers and acquisition experience, she has represented buyers and sellers in the acquisition and divestiture of upstream and midstream crude oil and natural gas assets in several states, including Texas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma and other states, as well as assisted clients with Federal and State regulations relating to the construction and operations of facilities and related filings.

Anna's ultimate goal for each transaction is get it to the finish line in the most time and cost-efficient manner possible. By discussing the clients' needs, wants, and ultimate goals at the very beginning stages of a project, she and her clients begin the process in an ideal position for moving the transaction along smoothly. Throughout the process, Anna consistently reassesses the client's needs to ensure that all of the parties are communicating and are on the same page and that she and her clients have the opportunity to determine whether the original plan of action is the best avenue to achieve the desired outcome.

Areas of Focus

All stages of the acquisition, development, and operation of upstream and midstream facilities and with the drafting and negotiation of the following:

• Asset and membership interest purchase and sale agreements
• Natural gas gathering, treating, processing, and marketing agreements
• Crude oil transportation and storage agreements
• Crude oil and natural gas throughput and deficiency agreements
• NGL sales and exchange agreements
• Easements and rights-of-way
• Operating agreements
• Construction and interconnect agreements
• Federal and state regulations relating to gathering and transmission facilities
• Formation of joint venture relationships for midstream and upstream activities
• Acquisition and leasing of mineral interests
• Regulations applicable to cross-border pipeline facilities