Oil & Gas
LeBlanc Bland attorneys have handled a broad range of matters involving oil and gas law, providing clients with expertise in both transactional matters and litigation. Our experience includes the negotiation and drafting of oil and gas related contracts, regulatory guidance and permitting, litigation of disputes relating to oil and gas operations and transactions, and defense of landowner and third party claims arising from exploration and production activities, processing and transmission operations, and contamination and toxic tort claims.
• Negotiation and Drafting of Contracts
LeBlanc Bland has experience in the negotiation and drafting of a wide range of oil and gas-related contracts, including mineral leases and servitudes, assignments, joint operating agreements, gas sales contracts, purchase and sale agreements, and AMI agreements.
• Energy Regulatory Guidance
We counsel clients with respect to federal and state energy related issues and environmental standards governing oil and gas operations, permitting procedures, reporting and notification requirements, and clean-up and remediation standards. In Louisiana, we have had extensive experience in cases involving the application and scope of the environmental restoration provisions of Act 312 of 2006 and the impact this has had on oil and gas operations in that state.
• Litigation of Oil and Gas-Related Disputes
LeBlanc Bland represents local and national oil and gas industry clients in disputes relating to breaches of oil and gas contracts, accounting claims for production, royalty disputes, landowner claims for contamination, the defense of administrative enforcement actions, and other claims arising from oilfield operations. Our attorneys have experience with all forms of oilfield wastes, including naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), hazardous waste, and non-hazardous oilfield waste (NOW), and addressing claims of contamination of all forms of environmental media, including soil, groundwater, sediment, surface water, ambient air, and deep injection strata. Our experience includes defending property damage claims, personal injury claims and claims for stigma damages, diminution in property value, increased risk of or fear of disease and punitive damages.
• Negotiation and Drafting of Contracts
LeBlanc Bland has experience in the negotiation and drafting of a wide range of oil and gas-related contracts, including mineral leases and servitudes, assignments, joint operating agreements, gas sales contracts, purchase and sale agreements, and AMI agreements.
• Energy Regulatory Guidance
We counsel clients with respect to federal and state energy related issues and environmental standards governing oil and gas operations, permitting procedures, reporting and notification requirements, and clean-up and remediation standards. In Louisiana, we have had extensive experience in cases involving the application and scope of the environmental restoration provisions of Act 312 of 2006 and the impact this has had on oil and gas operations in that state.
• Litigation of Oil and Gas-Related Disputes
LeBlanc Bland represents local and national oil and gas industry clients in disputes relating to breaches of oil and gas contracts, accounting claims for production, royalty disputes, landowner claims for contamination, the defense of administrative enforcement actions, and other claims arising from oilfield operations. Our attorneys have experience with all forms of oilfield wastes, including naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), hazardous waste, and non-hazardous oilfield waste (NOW), and addressing claims of contamination of all forms of environmental media, including soil, groundwater, sediment, surface water, ambient air, and deep injection strata. Our experience includes defending property damage claims, personal injury claims and claims for stigma damages, diminution in property value, increased risk of or fear of disease and punitive damages.