North America - United States • Energy
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP regularly represents clients in compliance and enforcement matters before FERC and EPA and advises on the regulatory dimensions of gas permits as well as of project developments and operations, including in relation to environmental issues. The practice is led by Myles Reynolds in Dallas, whose portfolio encompasses rate cases and advice on greenfield projects for a variety of clients, including natural gas utilities and midstream companies. Based in Washington DC, Shemin Proctor also sports extensive expertise in representing clients before FERC and advising them on regulatory compliance in connection with transactional matters. Another key practitioner in the group is DC’s John Lee Shepherd, Jr., an energy specialist with extensive experience in pipeline certification and abandonment as well as in civil enforcement matters.
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Key clients
- Energy Transfer Partners
- Energy Transfer Equity
- ENSTAR Natural Gas Company, LLC
- Rover Pipeline LLC
- Enbridge Inc.
- Crestwood Equity Partners LP
- Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska, LLC
Work highlights
- Advised Gulf States in obtaining acknowledgement of a change in FERC policy when filing a certificate application seeking both approval of the abandonment by sale of a FERC jurisdictional pipeline and a determination that the assets would not be subject to FERC jurisdiction after the sale based on application of FERC’s primary function test.
- Represented ENSTAR in a general rate case before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.
- Represented Tres Palacios Gas Storage in the development of an expansion of its natural gas storage facility.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Myles Reynolds