Troy J. Charpentier

Troy Charpentier represents local, regional, national, and global energy companies in Louisiana regulatory matters and state and federal court litigation. He is skilled in successfully interacting with agency professionals to secure state permits for pipelines, real estate rights acquisitions, eminent domain, underground injection controls, and Class VI injection wells and carbon capture, usage, and storage.

Troy has created and maintains relationships of trust with an assortment of regulators, such as agency professionals at the Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management, and DNR Pipeline Division – the agencies tasked with regulating Louisiana pipeline permitting, incident response, and pipeline expropriation matters. Regulators know that when Troy calls, they can trust he is direct and on point with the information they need to analyze and approve his client’s request.

The respect Troy has earned frequently mitigates and/or eliminates the agency red tape associated with energy management and production permits across the state. In fact, he is often able to expedite the permitting process as a result. A testament to his earned reputation and industry longevity, Troy has been asked to comment on his interpretation of a given regulation by agency professionals with whom he shares steadfast working relationships.

If litigation in state or federal court is the only way to achieve his client’s objectives, Troy brings proven skill to resolving all types of complex commercial claims. As with regulators, Troy’s straightforward communication style is also effective with judges and juries. A “fact finder” to the core, when Troy presents information, it can be relied upon as truth.

It is no surprise that Troy’s passion is energy law. He grew up in a multi-generational Louisiana energy industry family, where his father and uncles all worked in oil and gas. As a young man, Troy would accompany his father, a pumper, while making rounds of the different wells to see how much oil had been produced and ensure everything was working properly.

Moreover, Troy worked as an oil field roustabout in college. He brings this hands-on perspective to every client he serves. When Troy goes out to a site, he already has a first-hand understanding of the challenges and mindsets of the professionals involved in the oil and gas industry at all levels of development, production, management, and leadership.