Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) Conference 2024

Industry-Focused Legal and Advocacy Strategies

Bracewell LLP is a leading law firm that is known worldwide for its unique depth and experience in the energy, infrastructure, finance and technology sectors. To complement our sector-focused excellence, we boast an impressive and diversified array of market-leading substantive practices, including award-winning transactional, litigation, regulatory and government relations practices. This robust mix of sector and practice strengths has allowed us to be a firm of choice for many of the world’s largest and most successful corporate enterprises, financial institutions, private funds and governmental entities.

Firm of Choice for CCUS Projects and Transactions

Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) are poised to play a central role in the energy transition, with businesses and governmental entities throughout the world announcing aggressive plans for net zero emissions that include the use of  CCUS technology.

Bracewell is at the vanguard of policy, regulatory and other legal developments related to CCUS projects and transactions. With one of the world’s largest cross- disciplinary energy teams, we have an unparalleled understanding of the vast business issues facing emitters, developers of carbon capture facilities, CO2 pipeline companies, CO2 storage providers, oil and gas companies utilizing CO2 for enhanced oil and gas recovery and tax equity investors. 

We represent stakeholders in the manufacturing, power, chemical, bio-fuels and oil and gas industries in their efforts to transition to less carbon-intensive operations.

Our global team includes lawyers with broad experience in the midstream and upstream oil and gas sectors, as well as in renewable and conventional power. This experience complements the firm’s strengths in project development and finance, corporate transactions, environmental strategies, land rights, energy regulation, transactional tax and tax policy.

BKV is a forward thinking, growth driven energy company focused on creating value for our stockholders. Our core business is to produce natural gas from our owned and operated upstream businesses, which we expect to achieve net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, for our owned and operated upstream and midstream assets, by the early 2030s. We maintain a “closed-loop” approach to our net zero emissions goal with our four business lines: natural gas production, natural gas midstream, power generation, and carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (“CCUS”). BKV was founded in 2015, and our employees are committed to building a different kind of energy company. We are a group of innovators passionate about how the energy industry can change the world. We understand the impact climate change has on our community, the world and future generations, and addressing these impacts in how energy is produced is a top priority. Through our CCUS business, we aim to reduce man-made GHG emissions to the atmosphere by capturing CO2 emitted in connection with natural gas activities, whether from their own operations or third- party operations, as well as from other energy and industrial sources. BKV commenced operations at its inaugural CCUS project, Barnett Zero, in November 2023. BKV is one of the top 20 gas-weighted natural gas producers in the United States and the largest natural gas producer by gross operated volume in the Barnett Shale. We believe that our differentiated business model, net zero emissions focus, highly experienced management team and technology-driven approach to operating our business will enable us to create stockholder value.

BKV Corporation is the parent company for the BKV family of companies.

Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global technology and software company providing innovative solutions for the world’s essential industries. Through its leading automation portfolio, including its majority stake in AspenTech, Emerson helps hybrid, process and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduce emissions and achieve their sustainability goals. For more information, visit Emerson.com.

Enerflex is a premier integrated global provider of energy infrastructure and energy transition solutions, deploying natural gas, low-carbon, and treated water solutions – from individual, modularized products and services to integrated custom solutions. With over 4,800 engineers, manufacturers, technicians, and innovators, Enerflex is bound together by a shared vision: Transforming Energy for a Sustainable Future. The Company remains committed to the future of natural gas and the critical role it plays, while focused on sustainability offerings to support the energy transition and growing decarbonization efforts.

Synata Bio uses a single-step, feedstock-flexible fermentation process to convert synthesis gas from low-cost feedstocks into high-value products in the most economical and scalable manner. Synata Bio is engaged in licensing a proprietary biocatalyst, media, process, and technology that converts waste gases, hydrogen and on purpose syngas into ethanol. In addition, to licensing, Synata Bio provides engineering, operational, and technical services in support of its licensed technology. Further, Synata Bio also works with additional technology providers upstream and downstream to the extent agreed upon by the Parties to optimize delivery of a lower carbon footprint or product optionality. Examples of our application(s) are utilization of biogenic carbon dioxide emissions from various processing industries, utilization of carbon emissions from hard to abate industrial sectors such as chemicals, petrochemicals, steel and power plants.