Mark Burghardt

Background

About Mark Burghardt

Mark is a partner and serves as the chair of Dorsey’s Oil and Gas Industry Group. Mark has nearly two decades of experience in oil and gas, mining, geothermal, helium, hydrogen, and renewable energy development. He represents clients to acquire, explore, develop, operate, and finance projects. Mark has extensive experience representing clients in title examination, due diligence, surface and mineral leasing, transactions, financing, and federal, state, local, and tribal permitting and compliance. He frequently represents clients on projects involving some combination of federal, state, private, and Indian lands and routinely advises clients dealing with state agencies, BLM, and BIA. Mark also represents clients in administrative hearings and litigation related to oil and gas development, mineral rights, operator and owner disputes, quiet title, and condemnation. He frequently works with and appears before various administrative agencies including the Utah Board of Oil, Gas and Mining and IBLA. He counsels and represents pipeline operators and other companies in drafting and negotiating easements, rights-of-way, leases and in exercising eminent domain for roads, pipelines, transmission lines, and other facilities. He has litigated disputes in both federal and state court.