Michael Dreibelbis

Michael's representative experience includes advising:

• Elimini on the marketing and sale of carbon removal credits from a European BECCS project
• 1PointFive on a transaction with Microsoft for the offtake of carbon removal credits enabled by 1PointFive’s STRATOS Direct Air Capture facility
• Ponterra on a 30-year stream agreement with Microsoft, Rubicon Carbon, and Carbon Streaming for the anticipated delivery of approximately 3 million tons of carbon removal credits
• Chevron USA, in developing and implementing a carbon credit procurement program
• Major corporate purchaser of IRA tax credits and carbon credits from a portfolio of carbon removal projects
• Rubicon Carbon and Freepoint Commodities on its agreement with Imperative Global in connection to the development, financing, and marketing of Imperative’s high-quality carbon projects
• Flow Carbon on the tokenization of carbon offset credits in the voluntary offset market
• Saudi Aramco on the development of a 9 million MTCO2/annum CCS project in Saudi Arabia
• Occidental Petroleum on multiple CCS transactions
• A private equity-backed midstream infrastructure company in connection with the project development and financing of a carbon capture project in the Midwest 
• 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, creating a carbon management partnership focused on carbon capture and sequestration development
• The Newhall Land and Farming Company, a subsidiary of Five Point Holdings, LLC, in an unprecedented project to reduce or mitigate to zero all greenhouse gas emissions for a large planned community in California, including the development of a dairy methane biogas-to-energy project and other emissions reduction projects
• Fuel suppliers in the development, certification, and accreditation of fuel supply pathways to bring low-carbon fuel to market
• Numerous oil & gas companies and other regulated entities, in advocating a number of market design changes to the California cap-and-trade program and negotiating US and international carbon offset transactions
• Multiple companies on various enforcement actions by the California Air Resources Board, including with respect to allowance auction participation, carbon emissions reporting, carbon offset registration and invalidation, and others
• SoCalGas in connection with the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility methane leak and renewable natural gas