INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
Oil & gas counsel burning bright
With their industry running red hot, in-house counsel in the sector are pumped up about the work they are doing.
By Geoff Kirbyson W
ith oil prices continuing to hover near record lev- els and all-important exploration costs running into the billions of dollars in the ultra-competi- tive global industry, it should come as no surprise that in-house counsel in the oil and gas sector are
pumped about the work they're doing. There are multi-dimensional challenges, both in the up-
stream (the production and exploration end of things) and in the downstream (the refi ning and retail sales side). Sean McMaster, executive vice president, general counsel, and
chief compliance offi cer at TransCanada Pipelines Ltd., says the Calgary-based company has never had as many initiatives on
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