Daniel M. Altena, P.E.
Senior Consultant

Dan began his career at Exxon Company, USA as a facilities engineer. In 1985, he moved to Champlin Petroleum (later Union Pacific Resouces) where he worked in various aspects of gas production and midstream operations. He moved to Duke Energy Field Services in 1999 when DEFS purchased UPR's midstream assets and became a commercial Vice President in 2000 with regional assignments including East Texas, Austin Chalk, and Offshore. At UPR, Dan held positions in engineering and construction, business development, operations management, and engineering management. He has expertise in economic analysis and decision making, project development, natural gas contracts, gas production, gathering, compression and processing, and regulated gas and NGL transportation. Dan has experience in corporate litigation and in mergers and acquisitions. He joined Barnes & Click in February 2003.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Mergers and Acquisitions - served on the leadership team for several transactions involving gathering systems, regulated pipelines, processing plants, NGL fractionation, and NGL pipelines. Examples include an asset swap between Conoco, Mitchell, and DEFS in 1999; the sale of Panola Pipeline in 2000; and the purchase of Chevron-Texaco's interest in Discovery in 2002. Experience includes purchase and sale negotiation, due diligence, and dispute resolution.

• Economic Evaluations - extensive experience in all aspects of economic evaluation. Evaluations include asset transactions, new business opportunities, complex scenario reviews, detailed contract comparisons, facility and gathering systems expansions or modifications, process control upgrades, and production acceleration projects.

• Commercial and Project Development - strong record of developing new projects and business opportunities involving multiple parties. Knowledge of the engineering, design, and operations aspects as well as the contractual / business development side of project development creates value to all parties involved.

• Litigation and Dispute Resolution - experience as a fact / expert witness and company representative in jury trial and arbitrations.

• Gas Gathering and Process Optimization - extensive experience with gas facility optimization from the wellhead to the sales point. Specific experience includes increasing system performance in South and East Texas to handle new volumes associated with active drilling and recompletion programs, operational reviews to identify opportunities, and detailed business and engineering modeling to quantify and prioritize opportunities.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1999-2003
Duke Energy Field Services
Vice President

1985-1999
Union Pacific Resources
Engineering Manager, Engineering Advisor, Manager Business Development, Operations Manager, Operations Superintendent

1981-1985
Exxon Company, USA
Senior Engineer

EDUCATION

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1981
Graduate Studies, University of Texas - Austin, 1992