Natural Gas: Conventional and Unconventional

McGuireWoods has unique and extensive experience in both unconventional and conventional natural gas markets. Our practice includes gas-related transaction, taxation, and litigation work, and we offer consulting and lobbying services through McGuireWoods’ full-service public affairs subsidiary, McGuireWoods Consulting LLC.

The level of McGuireWoods’ presence in this market has afforded our lawyers access to the trenches for exploration, production, midstream, transportation and environmental work. We have offices in the key gas production states of California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia, as well as experienced attorneys licensed in West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio. We bring the firm’s collective resources to bear wherever our clients do business.

Our current clients are engaged in upstream, midstream and downstream markets, and include major oil and gas companies, and large and small independent producers involved in exploration and production. Similarly, we have experience with key aspects of the ownership, operation, regulation and taxation of natural gas pipelines and distribution companies, including the construction, permitting and operation of gas transmission and gathering facilities. We have also developed a concentration in matters related to low-pressure distribution lines, compressor stations and storage facilities.