Hazel Saffery

Practice Areas

Hazel Saffery is a partner in our Energy group and is an experienced Energy transition lawyer with extensive experience in both the oil and gas industry and the power industry. Based in Calgary, Hazel advises clients on energy acquisitions and divestures, commercial transactions, joint ventures and the development of independent power projects (including renewables and cogeneration projects). She has acted for producers (oil and gas) and generators, midstreamers, power developers, power offtakers and service providers in a wide range of natural resource projects both in Canada and internationally.

Oil & Gas: Hazel specializes in complex joint venture, partnership and operation agreements with a particular focus on Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin oil and gas clients. Her natural resources experience often includes the negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, operational agreements and royalty agreements. Hazel is often called upon (internally and externally) to provide day-to-day advice on joint ownership and the conduct of joint operations in upstream operations. She also frequently advises on both the transporter and shipper sides of oil and gas pipeline transportation projects, including with respect to the drafting and negotiation of long-term transportation arrangements.

Power: Hazel provides expert advice with respect to power and renewable development projects, commercial transactions and procurement. Specifically, Hazel advises clients on offtake arrangements, supply agreements, operating and maintenance agreements, long-term service agreements, hedging (financial and physical) arrangements, excess power arrangements and project agreements (including PPAs) pertaining to renewables and non-wires alternatives.

Carbon: Hazel has significant strength in advising clients on commercial, project investment, project development and regulatory matters pertaining to carbon credits (voluntary and compliance markets), carbon projects, carbon credit due diligence and carbon trading. She regularly advises clients as to commercialization opportunities and trading in credit markets, and specific protocols (or voluntary standards), including compliance credits, voluntary offsets, EPCs, BC-LCFS, CCAs and CCOs. Hazel maintains close contact with the Dentons international carbon team and coordinates both global and local carbon projects and transactions. She is also actively involved in methodology development on voluntary registries.