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Terra Mareck Cothran is a partner in King & Spalding's construction and energy transaction practice. Her practice primarily focuses on construction-related agreements, including Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC), and Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPCM) contracts for both brownfield and greenfield energy and infrastructure projects.
With over twenty-five years of experience, Terra has been advising clients on energy projects spanning the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. To date, she has provided legal counsel and led negotiations on projects with a cumulative value of approximately $125 billion.
Terra has a wealth of experience in drafting, negotiating, and administering EPC and related contracts across the entire energy chain. Her work has included projects such as a pipeline through Russia and Kazakhstan, numerous offshore drilling and production facilities in the US, Canada, and the North Sea, as well as domestic and international refineries and refinery upgrades. Her extensive project experience includes involvement in upstream (both onshore and offshore), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), midstream and crude oil pipelines, petrochemical facilities, and wind farms. She led negotiations for more than five multi-billion-dollar domestic LNG facilities, as well as several international LNG facilities, representing both owners and contractors. Terra also has worked on the EPC and related contracts for several offshore West Africa projects, including wellhead platforms, and production and processing facilities.
Terra also brings valuable experience as a commercial manager and project manager, where she was instrumental in developing estimates and proposals for numerous multibillion-dollar projects, as well as working on the project execution side. This expertise has further strengthened her ability to provide comprehensive counsel on complex energy projects.
Currently, Terra is excited to be expanding her practice and leveraging her extensive 25 years of EPC experience in the energy sector to focus on new energies, including solar, ammonia, and hydrogen projects.
Terra is qualified to practice in Canada, and in Texas (as a Foreign Legal Consultant). Not yet admitted in Texas.
Prior to joining King & Spalding, Terra worked in-house as senior counsel at Bechtel Energy focused on negotiating, drafting and administering construction-based contracts for LNG and oil & gas megaprojects, as well as Senior Counsel at Chevron, where she focused on major global capital projects.
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