Structured Finance and Production Payments
The growth of the commodity and interest rate derivatives markets has opened new doors for the monetization of oil and gas reserves. Thompson & Knight has been on the forefront of oil and gas financing structures for more than 80 years and continues to be a leader in the specialized area of volumetric production payment financing.
Structured Finance and Production Payments
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Experience
- Represented a Connecticut-based physical commodity merchant in connection with the structuring and purchase of a volumetric production payment from a private oil and gas company located in Dallas, involving production from almost 1,000 wells located in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado
- Represented a major international investment bank and institutional securities firm, as the seller’s advisor, in multiple volumetric production payment transactions totaling several billion dollars in which the other party was one of the largest producers of natural gas in the United States
- Represented an institutional purchaser of a $190 million volumetric production payment
- Represented a privately held oil and gas exploration and production company, as purchaser, in connection with a $120 million volumetric production payment
- Represented the lead bank in connection with an approx. $119 million volumetric production payment
- Represented a privately held oil and gas exploration and production company, as seller, in connection with a $45 million volumetric production payment