Steve Molina

Stephen Molina has broad domestic and international experience in upstream and downstream oil and gas, energy, construction, litigation and project finance. He also has proven expertise in sovereign representation, complex transactions, NYSE, project finance, and corporate governance, with extensive insight and experience in US,  Latin American, North Africa  and Middle Eastern transactions. In December, 2005,  Texas Governor Perry appointed him to the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. In July, 2007 North Dakota Governor John Hoeven, 2007 Chairman of the IOGCC, appointed him Chairman of the International Committee. At the end of his term limit he became the Vice Chairman until the end of 2013. Molina is Co-Head of  SNR Denton’s Latin America Practice group, and a Counsel in the oil and gas section. Molina has recently closed large transactions in Colombia and Ecuador and is handling a large NOC negotiation and arbitration claim against two other large NOCs  in Latin America.

He joined SNR Denton’s Dallas office as Of Counsel in May, 2011. Prior to that he spent five years as Of Counsel with Patton Boggs, where he traveled extensively overseas in support of that firm’s oil and gas practice. Molina  maintains a traditional domestic oil and gas practice in the Continental United States, representing clients in the Southwestern, Mid-Continent and Southeastern oil and gas producing regions of the country. For example, he represented the largest non-operating working interest owner (11.03%) in the DFW Airport Barnett Shale urban drilling development in North Texas and a federal lessee in a large exploration play in Colorado and Utah. He is also involved in one of the largest LNG export facility projects on the West Coast.

His most recent corporate in-house posting was as the General Counsel to the sovereign owned Oman Oil Company, residing in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.  He is also a former Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Benton Oil and Gas Company (NYSE: BNO), Vice President and General Counsel for Vastar Resources, Inc. (NYSE: VRI), Chief Counsel for ARCO Latin America, residing in Caracas, Venezuela, and General Attorney for ARCO Oil and Gas Company, the Atlantic Richfield Company upstream, midstream and wholesale marketing operating company division.  He is well versed in project finance and has over thirty years of oil and gas experience. 

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