Oil and Gas

Baker Botts’ Oil and Gas Practice offers the full range of legal and business services backed by more than 100 years of experience handling oil and gas matters in over 70 nations, including upstream, midstream and downstream and including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, unitizations, project design, development and operations, financings, investments, environmental and regulatory matters, litigation, arbitration, intellectual property matters and tax structuring. The firm is frequently called upon to analyze and assess international and local law considerations and help structure and document complex, challenging or novel cross border energy transactions and projects, as well as defend the interests of clients involved in these matters should a dispute arise.

Baker Botts works with major integrated E&P companies, independents, international E&P companies, lenders/underwriters, national oil companies, oilfield services companies, private equity entities, project sponsors and developers to provide experience ranging from project structuring, government agreements and approvals and project finance to the nuts-and-bolts of engineering, procurement, project management and construction contracts; protecting and defending the intellectual property of extraction and recovery technologies; permitting and certificating right-of-way acquisition and condemnation work; environmental and greenhouse gas compliance; the full range of service contracts; transportation, storage and constituent services agreements; floating production and processing services contracts; lifting agreements; terminaling agreements; operating agreements; underground hydrocarbon and compressed air storage projects; interconnect and expansion arrangements; the development of tariffs and related tax issues; pipeline ownership and capacity rights and the handling of disputes arising from or relating to any of these activities.

Baker Botts is one of the most distinguished oil and gas firms in the world with a seasoned team of oil and gas lawyers who have represented virtually all types of oil and gas project and transactional participants in both U.S. and international markets. Our team can provide clients with the mature counsel needed to help with critical business decisions involving the political, economic and legal complexities inherent in the development or protection of our clients’ interests.

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New Regulations Place All Onshore Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Under Federal Oversight:

All Operators (Even Unregulated!) Now Have Material Safety Compliance and Reporting Obligations Client Updates

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a final rule on November 2, 2021 expanding federal oversight, which now includes certain major transmission and distribution pipelines, to also include all onshore gas gathering pipelines.

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Africa Energy Forum 2021

Baker Botts is delighted to sponsor the 23rd Annual Africa Energy Forum on 15-17 November 2021 in London, UK.

2021 North American Gas Forum

Baker Botts is proud to be a sponsor of the 2021 North American Gas Forum on November 8-10 in Washington D.C.

Baker Botts Energy Lawyer School

Baker Botts is delighted to invite you to our Energy Lawyer School commencing on the 16 March and finishing on 24 March 2021

North American Gas Forum

Baker Botts is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming North American Gas Forum Virtual Event on October 20-22.

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.

CWC World LNG Summit

Baker Botts is proud to be a sponsor of the CWC World LNG Summit & Awards in Rome, Italy being held December 3-6.

2019 Baker Institute

For the third consecutive year, Baker Botts and the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute are co-hosting their annual energy summit. The event will provide a forum for key market players and decision-makers to gather insights into the future of the dynamic energy industry, ranging from oil and gas to electricity, renewables and technology.

Gastech 2019

Baker Botts is proud to be a sponsor and the exclusive Legal Partner for the VIP Programme for Gastech 2019 being held in Houston, Texas on September 16-19.

Baker Botts Oil & Gas Lawyer School

Baker Botts’ Energy Practice will be hosting its third Oil and Gas Lawyer School in London on Thursday, 21 March, 2019.

Oil and Gas Lawyer School

Baker Botts’ Energy Practice will be hosting its second Oil and Gas Lawyer School in London this week on Thursday, 21 September, 2017.

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