Douglas S. Bland

SandRidge Energy in $1.12 billion sale of its Gulf of Mexico offshore and Gulf Coast assets to Fieldwood Energy, LLC

Summit Midstream Partners (Summit Investments), with affiliates of GSO Capital Partners and Bear Tracker Investments, in the $513 million acquisition of 100% equity interests in Bear Tracker Energy, a full-service midstream company

Royal Dutch Shell in its $4.7 billion acquisition of East Resources, a major owner of shale gas holdings in the northeast United States, from private investors

PAA Natural Gas Storage in the $750 million acquisition of a natural gas storage company in Mississippi

Direct Energy in separate acquisitions of the Bastrop Energy Center (540 MW), the Frontera Generating Facility (477 MW), and the Paris Energy Center (240 MW), three gas-fired, combined-cycle electric generating facilities

Duke Energy in the $685 million sale of substantially all of its natural gas and electric power trading book to Barclays Capital, and a separate $715 million sale of Cinegy’s trading and marketing business in the U.S. and Canada to Fortis

Huntsman International in the sale of its base chemicals and polymers business units to Flint Hills Resources

SandRidge Energy in its $1 billion sale and development joint venture with Repsol in the Mississippian Lime, and its $500 million sale and development joint venture with Atinum Partners in the Mississippian Lime

Investment by Sundrop Fuels, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy, and ongoing development, financing, and construction of a $450 million advanced biofuels facility utilizing natural gas and biomass to produce drop-in transportation fuels

BG Group in the development of a multitrain, multibillion dollar LNG project in Lake Charles, Louisiana, including involvement in the feedstock, off-take, and other project-related agreements

Plains All American in its creation of a joint venture entity with a private equity fund and the acquisition by that entity of a natural gas storage facility in Michigan and a gas storage facility under development in Louisiana, followed by a $320 million project financing of the Louisiana facility that included a Term Loan B tranche and a Revolver Loan tranche (co-counsel)

NRG Energy in development and co-ownership arrangements for a 550 MW natural gas-fired power plant under construction at NRG’s Cedar Bayou Power Station in Texas

The governments of Curaçao and the Netherlands Antilles, and their subsidiaries, in the development, investment in, and project financing of a $212 million electric power, steam, potable water, and compressed air plant at the Isla Refinery in Curaçao (co-counsel for the development)

BG Group in a 20-year, 3.5 million tonnes per annum purchase and sale agreement for LNG to be produced at Cheniere Energy Partners’ Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana

A Danish wind turbine manufacturer in the development of the 280+MW King Mountain Wind Farm in Texas

eSolar in connection with a transaction with NRG Energy, Inc. for the development of three solar thermal power plants totaling up to 500 MW in the U.S

M3 Midstream LLC in the joint venture with affiliates of Chesapeake Midstream Development and EV Energy Partners to develop and operate natural gas gathering, compression, processing, fractionation, loading, and terminalling facilities in the Utica Shale

Copano Energy in its joint venture with Magellan Midstream to deliver condensate from the Eagle Ford Shale to Corpus Christi, Texas

Energy Transfer Partners in the $1.2 billion joint venture with Kinder Morgan to develop a 187-mile interstate natural gas pipeline originating in the Fayetteville shale

BP Alternative Energy North America, Inc. in its joint venture transaction with Clipper Windpower

A turbine erection contractor in several wind power projects in Texas, and in the creation of a joint venture to provide cranage services

Velocys in the creation of ventures to develop technology in various fields of use involving the energy and chemical businesses

Duke Energy in the creation of a joint venture and subsequent development of, a 600 MW combined-cycle merchant power plant in Arizona, including participating in the negotiation of the EPC, operation and maintenance, fuel supply, and electric power allocation agreements (co-counsel for the development)

Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering in the creation of a joint venture entity with AMEC to carry out the design engineering for fixed and floating offshore platforms, FPSOs, and subsea pipelines