Oil & Gas
Economic growth in developing regions and ever greater energy demand have led to increased interest in Canadian oil and gas resources. Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP represents public, private and state owned clients – both domestic and cross-border – in all aspects of our country's thriving oil and gas sector.

We apply our broad experience and deep expertise to assist our clients in meeting their objectives in a timely, efficient and cost effective way. Our practical, innovative and business minded approach, together with our dedication to service, help us build strong relationships with our clients that are key to understanding their business objectives and advising them accordingly.

Our clients include: oil sands producers; exploration and production companies; oil field service providers; pipeline owners and shippers; midstream operators; petrochemical manufacturers; refiners; oil and gas marketers; and, natural gas distribution companies.

Our expertise extends across the full range of oil and gas activities, including: acquisitions and divestitures; exploration, development, production, processing and transportation; petrochemical manufacture; pipelines; natural gas distribution; export authorizations; the oil and gas service sector; and, marketing. We have particular experience in oil sands – mineable and in situ – as well unconventional natural gas (such as Coalbed Methane and shale).

We also assist in related areas such as: tax; competition, antitrust and foreign investment review; dispute resolution; cleantech (greenhouse gas emissions, credits and offsets); construction; environment; financing; aboriginal; and, regulatory approvals, compliance and government relations. Our International Oil & Gas practice is also very active and renowned.

Representative Work
Counsel to RBC Capital Markets in its role as bookrunner to an E & P company on its completion of a $75 million convertible debentures offering and its subsequent closing of an $11.25 million over-allotment option, for gross proceeds of $86.25 million
Canadian counsel to BP in the sale of $7 billion US of assets to Apache Corporation and its affiliates. The Canadian tranche of the deal was $3.25 billion for the sale by BP of all of its conventional Canadian natural gas assets.
Counsel to Sasol Petroleum International on its $1.05 billion agreement to acquire from Talisman Energy a 50% stake in their Farrell Creek shale gas assets located in B.C.’s Montney basin
Publications
Did you know?
The LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2012 ranks Douglas Crowther as a leading lawyer in the areas of Energy (Oil & Gas) and Energy (Electricity) and Richard Neufeld, Q.C., in the area of Energy (Oil & Gas).
Chambers Global 2012: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business ranks Michael Hurst (Oil & Gas: Transactional), Jeff Scobie (Oil & Gas: Transactional, Oil & Gas: Foreign Experts) and Richard Neufeld, Q.C. (Oil & Gas: Regulatory) as leading Oil & Gas lawyers.
The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2011 ranks Douglas Crowther, Michael Hurst, Bill Jenkins, Allan McLarty, Q.C., Richard Neufeld, Q.C., Helen Newland, Ron StuberBernard Roth and Barry Zalmanowitz, Q.C. as leading oil and gas law lawyers. FMC's oil and gas lawyers in both Calgary and Toronto are recognized as maintaining leading practices in their regions.
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