Tracey D. Stock KC FEC PEng PhD
Tracey Stock KC is an oil and gas lawyer in Alberta and Saskatchewan, professional engineer, petroleum landman, qualified mediator, and chartered manager. Tracey has developed a practice focused on corporate governance, commercial agreements, commercial real estate, corporate mergers and amalgamations, post-merger integration, and transaction services and project management in the oil and gas industry for acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas assets and data conversion. Tracey also supports transaction services for Saskatchewan diamond claims.
With decades of experience as a manager in reserve evaluations, land administration, and land A&D for several major companies in the upstream oil and gas industry, Tracey provides a pragmatic business approach that helps ensure clients achieve maximum value.
Tracey is a Hearing Commissioner (part-time) and mediator for the Alberta Energy Regulator. He also teaches business law, management principles and practices, and management information systems at Mount Royal University; and ethics and survey law for the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary where he was recognized for outstanding teaching performance in 2016. Previously, he taught intellectual property law and information systems management in the MBA program at the Haskayne School of Business at UofC. He teaches land A&D, trust law, and introduction to oil sands for CAPL and CAPLA and has published several articles dealing with current land and legal issues in the petroleum industry. He also teaches several topics in business law for APEGA and is a learning facilitator, assessor, and mentor in for the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education.
Tracey volunteers regularly with Calgary Legal Guidance, offering disadvantaged Calgarians free legal advice in civil law, landlord/tenant matters, and employment law. He was recognized for distinguished service in 2009 and 2014. In 2019, the Law Society of Alberta and Canadian Bar Association – Alberta, recognized Tracey for Distinguished Service in Pro Bono Legal Service.
Tracey serves as APEGA Council president-elect and previously served for many years on APEGA’s Investigative Committee. Tracey is also a board member and secretary of CAPLA. In 2017, APEGA recognized Tracey with its Summit Award for Community Service. In 2023, he was made a Fellow of Engineers Canada. He has also received the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers from the Governor General of Canada.
Between 2011 and 2014, Tracey served as the Council Commissioner for Chinook Council, Scouts Canada, managing a team of more than 3,800 adult volunteers serving 10,000 youth in Southern Alberta. He is currently President of the Scouts Canada Property Society of Alberta and Secretary of the Chinook Scout Foundation. In 2017, he was awarded The Bar to the Silver Acorn for continued especially distinguished service to Scouting. In 2018, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award with gratitude and appreciation for a lifetime dedicated to serving others through Scouting.
Law
- Law Society of Alberta
- Law Society of Saskatchewan
- Law Society of Ontario
Engineering
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS)
- Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
Education
- PhD, University of Calgary
- MBA, Athabasca University
- JD, University of Calgary
- BASc, University of Toronto
- BA, Queen’s University
Industry Experience
- legal counsel with national and regional law firms
- executive leadership of consulting engineering firm
- manager, land A&D, reporting, and land services with major E&P energy company
- project manager, team leader, and land consultant with major, intermediate, and junior E&P energy companies, major midstream companies, land brokers, and energy services companies
- economic evaluations engineer with major E&P upstream energy explorer
- reservoir engineer with integrated major integrated energy organizations
- university, college, and industry, educator, learning facilitator and evaluator
Representative Work
- engagement in more than 5000 acquisition and divestiture transactions including negotiation and drafting transactional agreements, closing, and post-closing administration
- administration of upstream and midstream surface and facility agreements and easements, and audit of regulatory compliance for major midstreamers
- audit of gas storage agreements for a major midstreamer
- title due diligence for numerous E&P organizations
- design, development, and implementation of enterprise information systems for petroleum land management, including A&D utilized in hundreds of A&D transactions
- economic evaluation of thousands of oil and gas properties
- project management and team leadership for numerous E&P, midstream, and mining organizations
Key Legal Services
- corporate governance
- incorporation and start-up
- key contract drafting
- construction agreements
- confidentially agreements
- intellectual property, licensing agreements, and data sharing agreements
- corporate restructuring and reorganization
- society and not-for-profit set-up
- buying and selling a business
- mergers and amalgamations
- mediation
Memberships
- Canadian Bar Association
- Calgary Legal Guidance
- Canadian Energy Law Foundation
- Society of Petroleum Engineers
- Canadian Association of Land and Energy Professionals
- Canadian Association of Petroleum Land Administration
