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HYDROCARBON & ELECTRICITY MARKETING

Thackray Burgess serves a variety of players in the energy marketing field (domestic and international). We assist our clients with problem solving, negotiation and documentation related to the following:

natural gas marketing agreements
natural gas liquids (paraffinic and olefinic) marketing agreements
crude oil marketing agreements
electrical power marketing agreements
electricity grid support agreements
derivative financial transactions (commodity pricing and f/x)
gas aggregation agreements
gas and liquids storage agreements
credit support documentation associated with energy trading/marketing
transportation agreements and tariffs
trading and long term "structured" transactions and strategic alliances
end-user purchase/sale agreements
energy marketing regulation matters
international energy transmission transactions and capacity auctions
trans-border energy disputes and litigation matters

DOMESTIC

Our lawyers provide a broad range of electricity and hydrocarbon marketing services to a variety of clients. Several of our lawyers have been placed on short, medium and long term secondments with clients, both on the trading floors of energy marketing companies and in the marketing groups of exploration and production companies.

Thackray Burgess assists clients in dealing with the many risks and participation in the many opportunities which gas and electricity deregulation has brought to the Province of Alberta and to other jurisdictions within Canada. In addition, to help bring legal certainty to the contracting processes of their clients, they have aided in the establishment of mid and back office systems and procedures to effectively capture transactions.

Our lawyers have presented numerous papers and seminars to the Canadian Bar Association, the energy industry and clients on various topical matters. Recent presentations involved issues such as electricity de-regulation in Alberta, electricity trading enablement in Alberta, interpretation of force majeure under energy marketing contracts and the workings of various industry standard marketing contracts.

INTERNATIONAL

Our lawyers have provided energy marketing services in a variety of jurisdictions throughout the United States and the world in regulated, semi-regulated and deregulated business environments. Our broad range of experience and extensive expertise with such transactions in a variety of jurisdictions at different stages of the regulation/deregulation process gives us a unique skill set, which we enjoy putting to effective use on behalf of our clients.

Two of our lawyers have worked on behalf of a client, an international electricity and natural gas trader and retailer, in various European jurisdictions from a base in the Netherlands . They have assisted with establishing business operations throughout Western Europe and with the identification of risks and opportunities as energy de-regulation expands in continental Europe. The North American experience in gas and, most recently, power de-regulation has allowed us to provide our client with much assistance in capturing opportunities arising from the deregulation process and constructing its trading and more complex "structured" transactions. In addition, our experience with de-regulated environments has proved invaluable representing our client in various industry groups in respect of developing standard energy trading documentation for use across the European economic union.

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