Greg S. Sorensen

Greg’s experience includes advising:

Alternative Energy, Energy Transition, LNG, and Renewables Transactions

• Woodside Energy on its US$2.35 billion acquisition of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding B.V., including its lower carbon ammonia project in Texas
• Fortescue Future Industries, a Fortescue Metals Group subsidiary, on acquiring Phoenix Hydrogen Hub, owner of a proposed green hydrogen project located near Phoenix, Arizona
• ConocoPhilips on acquiring a 30% ownership stake and offtake arrangements with Sempra Infrastructure Partners at the Port Arthur LNG Facility
• AB CarVal on a US$700 million investment in Peregrine Energy Solutions, an integrated clean energy platform focused on utility-scale energy storage
• Crimson Renewable Energy Holdings on selling its used cooking oil collection and aggregation business to Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials
• A consortium investor on a US$1+ billion preferred equity financing for Blue Source Sustainable Forests Co. (BSFC) and BSFC’s acquisition of 1.7 million acres of timberland
• Bakken Energy on developing a US$2 billion hydrogen hub in North Dakota
• Chevron USA on its joint venture with Bunge North America to create renewable fuel feedstocks in the United States
• Chevron Corporation on its investment into low-carbon oilseed producer CoverCress
• Quantum Energy Partners on:
  • Forming and investing in ConnectGen, a renewable energy company, and acquiring non-transmission development assets from Clean Line Energy Partners
  • Forming and investing in 547 Energy to focus on acquiring and developing clean energy and renewables (utility-scale, distributed, commercial, residential, etc.) projects and companies
• Deepwater Wind, a US-based offshore wind developer, on its sale to Ørsted, creating a combined organization to deliver clean energy to every coastal state in the densely populated East Coast corridor between Massachusetts and Virginia

Oil and Gas Transactions

• Arclight Capital Partners on:
  • Acquiring a 50% interest in the King’s Quay floating production system and associated export lateral pipelines from Murphy Exploration & Production Company – USA, a subsidiary of Murphy Oil Corporation
  • Its investment and partial ownership arrangement in the Salamanca Production Facility in the Offshore Gulf of Mexico
• Navitas Petroleum on the project development and financing of the Shenandoah Prospect located offshore in the Gulf of Mexico
• DJR Energy, a Trilantic North America portfolio company, on its acquisition by Whiptail Midstream
• Sabine Oil & Gas Corporation on its midstream joint venture with Align Midstream Partners II and the completion of the TOPS Pipeline
• A multinational conglomerate on drilling joint ventures in the Barnett Shale and SCOOP/STACK with a publicly traded E&P company
• An international oil and gas company on selling a preferred equity investment in its U.S. holding company
• EQT Corporation on the US$2.93 billion acquisition of Alta Resources Development
• Greylock Energy on acquiring Uinta and Green River basin assets in Utah and Wyoming
• Nine Point Energy on the US$250 million sale of its Williston Basin assets to Bowline Energy pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code
• QEP Resources on the US$735 million sale to Aethon Energy of its upstream assets and midstream business in the Haynesville Shale
• DJR Energy, a Trilantic North America portfolio company, on acquiring San Juan Basin assets from Encana Corporation, a Canada-based oil and gas exploration and development company
• An independent oil and gas exploration and production company based in Brazil on divesting certain offshore Brazilian assets to a subsidiary of a multinational energy company
• Arclight Capital Partners on acquiring substantially all of Energy Corporation of America’s assets and its simultaneous financing and partnership with Greylock Energy
• A private E&P company on multiple acquisitions of STACK oil and gas properties from various private sellers
• An American global independent energy company and certain subsidiaries on divesting US$600 million of operated enhanced oil recovery (EOR) assets in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico to a subsidiary of an international oil and gas exploration and production company
• A private E&P company on acquiring oil and gas assets in Crockett, Reagan, Schleicher, Irion, and Upton counties, Texas
• Weatherford International on selling its pressure pumping and pump-down perforating assets to Schlumberger Technology Corporation, a subsidiary of Schlumberger Limited

Digital Infrastructure Acquisition, Divestitures, and Joint Ventures

• Basalt Infrastructure Partners on acquiring Fatbeam, a leading broadband service provider
• Investment Management Corporation of Ontario on its US$250 million investment in Scala Data Centers, a leading Latin American sustainable data centers platform in the Hyperscale market, headquartered in Brazil and backed by DigitalBridge
• A private telecommunications company in selling a fiberoptic system to another private telecommunications company