Joe Roger

Joe Roger co-leads Orrick's global Energy & Infrastructure sector. He focuses his practice on energy and infrastructure transactions, advising a broad range of clients on mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital investments, and project development. Joe has significant experience across the energy and infrastructure sector, including oil & gas, power generation, data centers, energy transition, and energy infrastructure. He regularly represents energy companies, project developers, private equity funds, and services companies, among others.

• Engagements

  Oil & Gas

  • An energy company in a $550 million divestiture of Marcellus upstream oil and gas assets.
  • A distributed energy infrastructure provider in the acquisition of an LNG production facility located in Arizona and related facilities and equipment.
  • A developer in the development, construction and financing of a greenfield olefins and polyolefins production facility and related gas storage facilities.
  • A distributed energy infrastructure provider in the acquisition of EDGE LNG, a company that provides liquefaction, delivery and vaporization services to customers through modular and mobile LNG equipment.
  • An energy company in a $550 million acquisition of Williston Basin upstream oil and gas assets.
  • An energy company in a swap transaction involving Marcellus and Utica upstream and midstream oil and gas assets valued in excess of $1 billion.
  • An energy company in the $144 million acquisition of a retail propane and refined fuels business in Virginia.
  • An energy company in a $900 million divestiture of its interest in Bakken oil and gas assets in North Dakota and Montana.
  • An energy company in the $240 million acquisition of one of the largest independent propane distribution platforms in California.
  • An energy company in a $325 million divestiture of its interest in Eagle Ford shale oil and gas assets in Texas.
  • An energy company in the acquisition of a retail propane distribution company based in North Carolina.
  • An energy company in its $965 million acquisition of an interest in the Caesar Tonga oil field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
  • An energy company in the divestiture of its interest in the Chinook oil field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
  • An energy company in its $339 million acquisition of a 40% interest in the North Platte discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico from Cobalt International Energy.
  • An energy company in a $407 million disposition of Marcellus upstream and midstream oil and gas assets.
  • An energy company in the nearly $900 million divestiture of its Malaysian oil and gas exploration and production business, comprising interests in nine offshore blocks.
  • An energy company in a $394 million divestiture of Marcellus upstream and midstream oil and gas assets.
  • An energy company in a $446 million acquisition of Haynesville and Bossier upstream and midstream oil and gas assets.
  • An energy company in a $400 million divestiture of Texas Panhandle upstream oil and gas assets.
  • A private equity investor in the acquisition of an interest in Delaware Basin upstream oil and gas assets.
  • An energy company in a $335 million acquisition of Haynesville and Bossier upstream and midstream oil and gas assets.
  • An energy company in a $325 million divestiture of Permian Basin upstream oil and gas assets.

  Power Generation

  • An electric cooperative in the $768 million acquisition of two gas-fired power generation facilities in Texas with a total capacity of 768 MW.
  • An energy company in the $635 million acquisition of three gas-fired power plants in Texas with a total capacity of 1.5 GW.
  • An energy company in the formation of a joint venture for the development of offshore wind projects in California.
  • An energy company in the formation of a joint venture for the development of offshore wind projects in New York.
  • An energy company in the formation of a joint venture for the development of floating offshore wind projects in the United States.
  • An energy company in its acquisition of an interest in 12 utility-scale solar and energy storage projects located in Texas, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming and Virginia.

  Data Centers

  • A power developer in multiple joint ventures to develop a platform of hyperscale data center projects.
  • An energy company in the development of a data center and dedicated gas-fired power generation facilities.
  • A mobile gas solutions provider in the supply of natural gas to a power generation facility supplying power to a data center project.
  • A power developer in the acquisition and expansion of a gas-fired power generation facility to supply power to a hyperscale data center project.
  • A power developer in carbon capture, transportation and sequestration arrangements in respect of a gas-fired power generation facility supplying power to a hyperscale data center project.

  Energy Transition

  • An energy company in its acquisition of a 25% interest in Bayou Bend CCS LLC, a Texas Gulf Coast carbon capture & sequestration project with nearly 140,000 acres of pore space for permanent carbon sequestration.
  • An energy company in the CAD$1.05 billion acquisition of a leading North American low-carbon energy solutions provider focused on compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas and hydrogen.
  • An energy company in the acquisition of East Point Energy, a battery storage developer.
  • An energy company in a venture capital investment in Captura, a California-based carbon removal company.
  • An energy company in its investment in the private investment in public equity (PIPE) offering by Broadscale Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in connection with its $1.3 billion business combination with Voltus, Inc.

   Energy Infrastructure

  • A power cooperative in a joint venture to develop a greenfield underground natural gas storage facility.
  • An energy company in its acquisition of the Pleasant Creek underground natural gas storage facility in California.
  • An energy company in its sale of the South Riding Point oil terminal in The Bahamas.
  • An energy company in its acquisition of the Gill Ranch underground natural gas storage facility in California.
  • A water management, waste management and energy services company in the $1.25 billion divestiture of its U.S. district energy business.
  • An energy-focused private equity fund in the disposition of its interest in the interstate Arkoma Connector Pipeline in Oklahoma.
  • An energy-focused private equity fund in financing arrangements for an underground natural gas storage facility in Canada.
  • An energy company in a $400 million divestiture of its interest in Cardinal Gas Services, a Utica gas gathering and processing joint venture.
  • An energy-focused private equity fund in the formation of a joint venture to develop, construct and operate oil and gas gathering and processing facilities in the Delaware Basin.
  • An energy company in an acquisition of an underground natural gas storage facility in Mississippi and associated pipelines.
  • A large utility as the sponsor in the formation of a joint venture to develop, construct and operate an LNG liquefaction project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
  • A water management, waste management and energy services company in the $250 million acquisition of the Gum Springs hazardous waste facility in Arkansas.
  • An energy company in a joint venture for the development of Haynesville, Bossier and Cotton Valley gas gathering and treating systems.
  • An energy company in a $1.2 billion divestiture of its interest in the Seaway Crude Pipeline System.