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Ken Wonstolen joined Beatty & Wozniak, P.C. as senior counsel on January 1, 2009. Ken has more than 30 years of experience in energy policy and law, including geothermal and other renewable resources, and emphasizing a wide range of oil and gas matters. He has served as an oil and gas trade association executive, and as counsel to a number of oil and gas clients. Ken spent several years as a corporate officer responsible for project development, public affairs, investor relations, and environmental compliance.
Ken has a wide range of transactional experience, including the negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, asset acquisition and related due diligence, including a leasing project in Ireland. He also has extensive environmental expertise, including design, oversight and implementation of environmental, health and safety compliance plans; coordination of reporting and response to spills, releases, accidents and resolution of enforcement actions; negotiation of site remediation and closure plans, and oversight of environmental contractors.
Ken handles permitting, spacing, well density, pooling, regulatory compliance and other oil and gas commission matters. He also represents his clients before other administrative panels, as well as the courts. Ken is familiar with state and local permitting and negotiation with landowners, neighborhood groups, local governments and commercial developers. He has been instrumental in the development of air and water quality programs related to oil and gas.
Ken is an expert bill drafter and frequent witness in legislative hearings. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on federal leasing reform; natural gas royalty valuation; regulation of gas transportation; the impact of Canadian gas imports, and access to federal lands. He is frequent speaker to professional societies on oil, gas and general energy issues, and has been cited as source in the Wall Street Journal and other publications. |
