Our firm's oil and gas section offers comprehensive legal services to a wide range of energy exploration and production clients, including majors, large independents and local concerns. We have represented oil and gas producers, gas pipelines, gas storage companies, gas gatherers, gas marketers, crude purchasers, product brokers and marketers, and refineries.

Our transactional practice includes preparation of exploration and development agreements, representation of both lenders and borrowers in financing, work outs and the restructuring of credit arrangements, and the day-to-day negotiation and documentation of operating agreements, gas purchase and transportation contracts, leases, surface damages settlements, and other oilfield contracts.

The resume of our litigation experience includes complex take-or-pay, gas balancing, accounting and joint-interest billing audit, lease cancellation, pooling, respacing, drainage, surface damages, operator removal, environmental and pollution, title, riparian, and other significant oil and gas issues. Members of our oil and gas section routinely enter appearances in the state district courts across Oklahoma and the three federal courts sitting in our state. We also have prosecuted and defended against many appeals in Oklahoma's appellate courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Daily appearances are made by members of our oil and gas section before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. We routinely participate in oil and gas conservation proceedings, rule-making hearings, pollution docket controversies, and other state regulatory matters. We have been involved in numerous appeals of Corporation Commission orders to the Oklahoma Supreme Court and Oklahoma Courts of Appeal.