Thompson & Knight attorneys orchestrate one of the biggest oil-and-gas deals in Peruvian history
So investors in Korea and Columbia put together a mammoth $900 million deal to purchase a Peruvian energy company. What's that got to do with Texas, you ask?

Well, Attorneys in Thompson & Knight's Houston office helped orchestrate the deal as outside counsel for the two buyers, Korea National Oil Corporation and Ecopetrol SA of Columbia. The two firms now each have 50 percent interest in Offshore International Group Inc and its subsidiary, Petro-Tech. Petro-Tech is engaged in the exploration, development, production, and processing of hydrocarbons and is Peru's third-largest crude-oil producer at 12,000 barrels per day.

This acquisition represents one of the largest Peruvian oil and gas deals in recent history and allows KNOC and Ecopetrol to greatly increase their production capabilities. The Thompson & Knight team advising on this project was led by Partner Jerry L. Metcalf and Associate Todd Chen, both from the Firm's Houston office. The team which assisted on this transaction included Sarah E. McLean, Louis J. Davis, Ben H. Welmaker Jr., Pablo C. Ferrante, John R. Cohn, Janet P. Jardin, C. Stoddard (Todd) Lowther II, Nicholas F. Tsai, Mayuca V. Salazar, and Iván Pérez-Arteche. The agreement between the companies was finalized on February 5, 2009.
KNOC is the national oil and gas company of South Korea and one of the most important industrial companies in the country. The company operates oil and gas fields around the globe and had a reported oil production of more than 860.2 million barrels in 2008.
Ecopetrol, the Colombian national oil company, is an integrated oil and gas company ranked among the world's 40 largest energy companies. It is also the largest corporation in Colombia as well as the principal oil and gas company in that country.