BLG oil & gas clients face complex challenges involving federal and provincial bodies and special interest groups. Our Group provides support and counsel in every aspect of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, project development and financings, and co-ownership and operational issues. We assist our clients in all phases of project approval from project initiation, financing and strategy through closing the deal.
Our leading performance has positioned us to represent clients in a full range of applications and proceedings before all levels of courts, agencies and boards, and administrative tribunals. BLG acts for clients in facilities applications for gas, sour gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGL), pipelines, gas processing plants, oil sands plants, co-generation facilities, electric transmission infrastructure, and petrochemical plants. We also provide advice with respect to gas removal and gas export licensing applications for producers and gas aggregators in all aspects of the sector — upstream, midstream, downstream and LNG. BLG advises governments, oil & gas companies, pipeline companies, refiners, utilities and financial institutions.
We have extensive experience in litigation and alternative dispute resolution related to rate making/rate setting proceedings, operating agreement matters, environmental permitting and compliance, pipeline planning and construction implementation and pipeline restructuring proceedings, market power assessments, tariff proceedings, third-party claims, compliance proceedings, ownership issues, lease and license issues, rights of first refusal, class actions involving environmental incidents, marketing disputes, anti-trust issues and environmental litigation.
Our proven track record is reflected by superior placement in league tables and industry ranking publications.