Garth Parker

Senior Legal Counsel

403.260.0384
gparker@bdplaw.com
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Education:

Middlebury College, 1974

McGill University, Juris Doctor, 1978

Industries:

Construction, Oil and gas

Practice areas:

Energy, Infrastructure and project development

Experience

Extensive experience drafting and negotiating a wide variety of oil and gas, oil sands mining and in situ, midstream, infrastructure and petrochemical related contracts, including oil and gas asset purchase and sale agreements, international offshore and conventional operating agreements, joint venture agreements, offshore drilling contracts, facilities agreements, processing agreements, pipeline transportation and supply agreements and engineering and construction agreements.

Community Involvement:

Past Director of Alberta Alpine.

Professional involvement

Professional Associations

Member, Law Society of Alberta

Representative work

Path2Zero Project

Commercial and construction counsel for Dow Chemical Canada regarding the $8.5 billion Path2Zero petrochemical expansion project in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.

Inter Pipeline's $4.3 billion Heartland Petrochemical Complex.

Lead counsel (in-house) responsible for construction and facility interconnection legal work associated with the development of Inter Pipeline's $4.3 billion Heartland Petrochemical Complex.

Petro-Canada oil sands mining projects

Counsel (in-house) to Petro-Canada (now Suncor) in connection with most aspects of the Fort Hills and Syncrude oil sands mining projects, including engineering and procurement and construction contracting, construction management, intellectual property employment and builders' liens.

Total E&P Canada Ltd.

Lead counsel (in-house) at Total E&P Canada Ltd. in connection to the Jocelyn oil sands mining project.