Blue Sky Infrastructure is a Houston, Texas-based company developing CO2 pipeline and underground injection well infrastructure in the US to provide permanent geologic storage of CO2 for large industrial emitters of CO2 seeking to decarbonize. Blue Sky was founded in 2021 by former Cheniere Energy executives with experience developing, financing, commercializing, constructing, and operating large-scale infrastructure projects. Blue Sky is a portfolio company of private equity funds managed by The Blackstone Group, the world’s largest alternative asset manager with over $800 billion of capital under management.

• Leading associate for Linn Energy’s divestiture of 36,000 acres of producing and undeveloped acreage in the Uinta Basin for $132 million• Actively participated in the representation of an investment firm in the purchase of senior notes with a value of $150 million by drafting and negotiating an area of mutual interest agreement, option agreement, and services agreement among other agreements• Drafted and revised purchase and sale agreement and ancillary documents for the divestiture of a large mineral and royalty position by a private equity-backed company in the Eagle Ford Shale• Revised numerous initial bid drafts, bid letters and conducted due diligence for potential acquisitions of working interests and mineral and royalty interests• Negotiated and drafted upstream oil and gas exchange agreements and joint operating agreements in various basins around the country for a variety of companies• Led and performed due diligence analysis related to acquisitions and divestitures of upstream oil and gas assets and the financing of privately held oil and gas companies• Negotiated many large oil and gas leases for private equity-backed mineral ownership companies• Led and managed all aspects of numerous smaller upstream oil and gas acquisitions and divestitures

• Assisted in legal efforts of acquisitions of $600 million Powder River Basin assets, $100 million Scoop assets, $92 million of Powder River Basin assets, and numerous other acquisitions• Assisted in legal efforts for divestitures of $200 million Mississippi Lime assets, $310 million Anadarko Basin assets, $422 million Permian Basin assets, $433 million Permian Basin assets, $525 million East Texas assets, and numerous other divestitures• Advise land, operations, division orders and accounting on various upstream matters in Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and New Mexico• Negotiate, draft, and review various contracts, including leases, joint development agreements, joint operating agreements, easements, rights-of-way, surface use agreements, farmouts, and water agreements

Engaged directly with executive team members in $6 billion divestment of Eagle Ford Shale - Prepared exhibits and schedules for confidentiality, purchase and sales agreement- Researched and analyzed land, production and environmental contracts- Presented contract summaries to executive management for the divestitureDrafted, reviewed, and revised various upstream and midstream contracts- Included master service agreement, all easements, and construction contracts relating to 75 mile Victoria Express pipelineAdvised on various land, division order, marketing, operations, and accounting matters