Upstream
Our energy team comprises more than 100
lawyers covering all types of energy-related work, ranking it among
the largest dedicated energy legal practices in the world. The
team has extensive experience advising energy businesses on all
types of oil and gas projects and facilities. This experience
has been built up over 60 years through oil and gas regulatory
and project-related work in the US, Europe, the Middle East,
CIS and Africa. Many of our lawyers have worked in-house for
energy companies, either before joining us or while on secondment,
giving our team a unique understanding of the oil and
gas industry and the ability to deliver industry-based
solutions in a timely and focused manner.
We have extensive experience of all aspects of
the oil and gas upstream sector. This includes experience with
respect to all forms of oil and gas concession arrangements,
including license-based regimes, production sharing contracts, risk
service arrangements, U.S. federal and state leasing and
regulation, and technical support agreements. We regularly
advise clients on joint bidding agreements, joint operating
agreements, unitization agreements and upstream pipeline-related
agreements, e.g. transportation, allocation, construction and
commingling, as well as pipeline crossing and connection
agreements.
Areas of Focus
- Acquisition and divestment agreements
- Concession agreements/production sharing
contracts
- Joint operating agreements
- Joint bidding agreements
- Farm In/Farm Out
- Environment
- Regulation