Pottle Energy Plan

About Steven Pottle

 

Steven R. Pottle: 

Steve Pottle is the Founder of Haywood Dorland Energy Capital and has more than 20 years of commercial and investment banking experience within all sectors of the energy industry. He has held senior level energy banking positions at some of the world’s leading financial institutions, including:


  1. • UBS - NY, Dallas & Los Angeles

  2. • The Industrial Bank of Japan

  3. • Deutsche Bank Securities - Investment Banking

  4. • Commerzbank - Energy Project Finance

  5. • HSH Nordbank - Energy Structured Finance


Mr. Pottle also served as the Vice President of Business Planning at Sithe Energies, at one time the largest independent power producer in the United States. While at Sithe, he was responsible for directing a two-year, company-wide project focussed on building a large energy commodity trading platform (power, fuel oil and natural gas). Experience includes setting up trading books, calculating mark-to-market values and value at risk, entering trades,  portfolio stress testing, etc.


Mr. Pottle has participated in, structured and / or led hundreds of project and corporate energy transactions over the course of his career.  The majority of these were in the oil and gas industry and have amounted to many billions of dollars in total. His focus has been both project and corporate finance.


He is also a member of the Houston Producer’s Forum and has spoken at industry conferences sponsored by IPAMS. While working as the head of oil and gas investment banking at Deutsche Bank Securities, he held a Series 7 Securities license.


Haywood Dorland Energy Capital (“HDEC”)


Generally, HDEC’s merchant banking activities involve investing capital in a wide range of corporate and structured finance energy transactions as principals. These include the following:


  1. • Senior and Subordinated Loans

  2. • Borrowing Base Facilities

  3. • Energy Project Development Loans

  4. • Royalty Interests

  5. • Recapitalizations

  6. • Preferred Stock

  7. • PIPES (with specialized partners)

  8. • Warrants

  9. • Net Profit Interests

  10. • Project Equity

  11. • Tax Equity (with specialized partners)

  12. • Distressed Debt

  13. • Receivables Purchase Programs

  14. • Leasing

  15. • Private Placements

  16. • Acquiring and Selling Assets and Companies


HDEC also leverages the knowledge and expertise of a large network of financial and operating partners to complete transactions.


In the near term, our focus is on acquiring equity stakes or full ownership in:


  1. • CNC oilfield manufacturing companies

  2. • Refined products terminals

  3. • E&P properties (large portion of PDP’s)

  4. • Gas Storage (depleted reservoir)

  5. • Solar projects

  6. • Alternative Energy Projects


The following are some of the companies whose financings  Steven Pottle has participated in or structured over the past twenty years:


Amoco

Aquila

Arco

Ashland

Atlantic LNG

Atmos

Arkla

ATP Oil and Gas

American Gas Royalty

Williams Companies

Beryl Oil and Gas

Calpine

Cavallo Energy

Chesapeake Energy

Chevron

Coastal

Conoco Phillips

Dominion Resources

Dynegy

El Paso

Enron

Enserch

Exxon

Fortistar

Goldking

Hess

Input Output

Kern River Pipeline

Kerr McGee

Maxxus

MEG Energy

Mitchell Energy

Mobil

Mirant

New England Electric

Northeast Utilities

Occidental Petroleum

Oryx Energy

Phillips Petroleum

Pine Prairie Energy

Prospect Energy

PSEG

Reliant Resources

Rexene

Sunflower Electric

Tenneco

Transco

Unocal