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The ever-changing economic and regulatory climate in the oil and gas industry presents unique challenges for our clients – they need local expertise, deep industry experience, and an international reputation to achieve their goals.

Our oil and gas lawyers have achieved success on an array of complex oil and gas disputes and corporate transactions across the sector and we have the depth of knowledge to navigate the complexities you face whether your business involves:
  • upstream or downstream oil and gas
  • heavy oil
  • LNG
  • oil sands
  • oilfield services
  • pipelines
  • midstream facilities
By leveraging deep relationships that span the highly regulated oil and gas industry, BLG anticipates the latest industry developments to position our clients for success. We represent energy clients of all sizes across Canada and the world, and deliver the results that are essential to their business objectives.
We assist clients with their most complex oil and gas transactions. They value our ability to deliver practical, strategic and tactical legal advice from our offices across Canada. From acquisitions and divestitures, asset purchases and sales, financing, insolvency and restructurings, joint ventures and other commercial arrangements, project development, regulatory approvals and dispute resolutions – we do it all.
When it comes to dispute resolution, clients trust our experienced team with their most complex and technical commercial litigation and regulatory matters.
Our lawyers have appeared before all levels of the provincial and federal court system and regulatory bodies such as the National Energy Board (NEB), the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), other federal and provincial regulatory authorities and the Competition Bureau.

 

We have assisted clients in facilities applications for:
    • gas

 

    • sour gas

 

    • hydrogen

 

    • oil and natural gas liquids (NGL)

 

    • pipelines

 

    • gas processing plants

 

    • oil sands facilities

 

    • co-generation facilities

 

    • electric transmission infrastructure

 

  • petrochemical plants

 

We regularly advise with respect to gas removal and gas export licensing applications for producers and gas aggregators in all aspects of the industry.