New Texas pipeline regulations:
Statehouse and municipal update

There's a backlash to shale play activity in Texas. The current session of the Texas legislature is focusing on gas pipeline regulation more than ever before. While compromises that satisfy both industry and the public are possible, nothing is certain. And the sheer volume of Barnett activity has prompted Fort Worth to redraw and review its ordinances. Other Texas municipalities may follow, but may not be as friendly to pipelines and producers.

PLUS the attention on pipeline development in energy-friendly Texas sends a signal to other jurisdictions with shale plays. What does the Barnett experience mean for the Haynesville, Woodford and Marcellus plays?

The bottom line is that some statutory changes may curtail activity and make shale development more expensive.

Tune into this web-based broadcast to learn the following:

• Recent municipal ordinances and legal actions related to shale gas development in Texas
• A timely update on Texas legislature bills, committee, and floor action affecting the shale gas industry
• How other regions of North America with shale gas development will be affected

Jim Bradbury
Attorney

James Bradbury has practiced in the area of commercial litigation and eminent domain for many years, having acted as counsel to railroads, pipeline companies, water utilities, and landowners. His experience includes managing large multi-parcel condemnation projects for an interstate railroad corporation, representation of pipeline companies in condemnation actions, and a major condemnation action involving a large airport facility. In addition to issues of valuation, Mr. Bradbury has dealt with issues of the right to take, public purpose, negotiate in good faith requirement, prior public use and many issues under Chapter 21 of the Property Code. He recently served on the City of Fort Worth Task Force that negotiated and developed the Fort Worth's Shale Drilling and Pipeline Ordinance. He is familiar with regulatory aspects of shale drilling that is taking place in the Barnett Shale and other plays.

Mr. Bradbury has extensive trial experience and has served as counsel in over forty trials including thirty three trials as lead counsel. Recently, Mr. Bradbury obtained a sizeable award on behalf of a commercial condemnee, which resulted in the cancellation of the proposed road project by Texas Department of Transportation. The action was dismissed and the client recovered its attorneys' fees and costs. He also obtained a judgment in excess of $5 million dollars on behalf of a general contractor regarding a federal highway construction project. He also acts as lead counsel in appellate proceedings, and regularly appears in both state and federal courts. He is admitted to practice before all appellate courts in Arkansas and Texas as well as the United States Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits. Currently, he is representing several clients in a major highway condemnation project in Erath County, Texas and numerous clients on pipeline cases.

John Arnold
Attorney

John Arnold represents energy companies in a broad range of regulatory matters including litigation, compliance, and enforcement as well as due diligence and counseling for project development and business transactions. Well-versed in electricity and oil and gas regulatory issues, Mr. Arnold serves clients in the gas and power industries before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Railroad Commission of Texas (the state's principal oil and gas regulatory authority), and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Mr. Arnold represents natural gas local distribution companies, intra- and interstate pipelines and storage companies, retailers of electricity, industrial customers of electricity, developers of wind generation, and several multinational energy companies. A former aide to the Texas Attorney General and law clerk to a Texas Supreme Court justice, Mr. Arnold has also represented clients before numerous state agencies, including the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, the Texas General Land Office, and the Office of the Texas Attorney General.

Mark Wasem
Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Mark Wasem joined the Dallas office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in 2008 as a partner in the firm’s energy practice. His practice focuses on the representation of clients in a broad array of energy transactions, including the acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas properties and natural gas pipelines, the development and operation of natural gas pipelines and the contractual and regulatory matters of both upstream and midstream energy companies. Mark has over 25 years experience in structuring energy transactions, including the negotiation of agreements related to the acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas assets, the negotiation of oil and gas contracts, the formation and operation of joint ventures and the representation of clients in matters before the FERC, Railroad Commission of Texas and municipalities.

About the Moderator:

David Givens
Publisher, Hart's Gas Processors Report

Since 2005, David Givens has been publisher of Hart's Gas Processors Report, the weekly newsletter serving the U.S. midstream natural business for more than 26 years. He is also the publisher of several of Hart's other newsletters. Previously, he served in senior positions at energy publishers Argus Media and Io Energy. He has also been managing editor of price surveys for Gas Daily and Megawatt Daily.