Michael Dreibelbis advises sponsors, developers, and investors on energy and infrastructure project development.

Michael brings extensive experience guiding clients through project development and complex commercial agreements in the oil and gas, carbon capture and sequestration, digital infrastructure, and power sectors, with a focus on product offtake agreements.

Michael’s representative experience includes advising:

Digital Infrastructure / Power Procurement

  • A client with a company formation to provide power solutions to data centers
  • A cloud-computing platform to provide +1GW power generation for a data center in Amarillo, TX
  • A client with their data center lease negotiations
  • A client with a power-tolling agreement
  • A client in the development of its data center campus
  • A client in connection with the development of a data center project in Texas

Oil and Gas / Biofuels

  • Confidential oil and gas company on long-term gas supply, gas transportation services agreements, and asset management agreements
  • Confidential refinery on long-term offtake agreement for supply of refined products in connection with greenfield shale oil refinery development in Texas
  • Confidential multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas on supply agreements for waste oil and other renewable fuel feedstocks in connection with product trading joint venture
  • Confidential natural gas company on gas supply arrangements and environmental attributes monetization for low-carbon hydrocarbons
  • Confidential provider of midstream services on supply agreements for oilfield services equipment
  • Confidential leading energy trading house focusing on natural gas, LNG, power, environmental solution on bundled gas and environmental attribute sales for natural gas products
  • A client in connection with convertible note round and subsequent Series B financing

Carbon Capture and Removal

  • A private equity-backed midstream infrastructure company in connection with the project development and financing of a carbon capture project in the Midwest
  • Elimini on the marketing and sale of carbon removal credits from a European BECCS project
  • Occidental Petroleum on a transaction with Microsoft for the offtake of carbon removal credits enabled by 1PointFive’s STRATOS Direct Air Capture facility
  • Saudi Aramco on the development of a 9 million MTCO2/annum CCS project in Saudi Arabia
  • Occidental Petroleum on multiple CCS transactions
  • Vault 44.01 on CO2 transportation and sequestration services agreements to service ethanol plants in the Midwest
  • Brookfield on the formation of its Carbon Terravault joint venture with California Resource Corporation

Bar Qualification

  • California
  • New York

Education

  • JD, Columbia University School of Law, 2011
  • BA, Princeton University, 2007
    cum laude

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • German