Lucas Owhonda

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Lucas provides non-contentious, transactional advice on a broad range of commercial and contractual matters to clients in the oil and gas sector. Drawing from his in-house background and experience gained from secondments to oil and gas operators, Lucas has particular expertise in the drafting and negotiation of agreements for oilfield services, EPCI and asset integrity categories of work, both from an operator and contractor perspective.

Lucas is admitted as a solicitor in Scotland. He completed his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 2011 and Master of Laws – Oil and Gas Law (LLM) in 2012 at the University of Aberdeen and his Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (DPLP) at Robert Gordon University in 2020.

Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Lucas was a member of the oil and gas team at Brodies LLP. Before this, Lucas worked at a number of multinational service companies in the oil and gas and renewable energy sectors for over 10 years, including Seaway7, TechnipFMC and EnerMech, and undertook an in-house training contract at Altrad Integrity Services.

Experience

• Negotiating various well services contracts and providing legal support to drilling and well services project teams whilst on secondment to one of the largest (by production) oil and gas operators in the UKCS.*
• Drafting a suite of bespoke contract templates and negotiating a wide range of agreements from software licence agreements to a well management contract covering over 190 wells whilst on secondment to an independent oil and gas company transitioning to operatorship for the first time in the UKCS.*
• Advising a state-owned national oil company in the Middle East on design, build, own, operate and maintain (DBOOM) contract templates for a compression facility scope of work and the provision and operation of sucker rod pumps.*
• Negotiating EPCI and transportation and installation (T&I) contracts for subsea cables and wind turbine foundations for a Tier 1 contractor in the offshore wind industry, including a T&I scope for the foundations of a 1+ GW wind farm off the east coast of Scotland valued between USD 150 and 300 million.*
• Advising a state-owned national oil company in Qatar on the comprehensive overhaul of a suite of key procurement contracts.*
• Negotiating NEC 3 and 4 (Engineering and Construction) contracts for asset integrity scopes of work for a multinational service provider to clients in the UK energy, nuclear and defence industries.*
• Advising one of the world’s largest (by revenue) offshore drilling contractors on different approaches to multi-party mutual hold harmless and indemnity frameworks, including the drafting of a comprehensive advice note.*
• Advising a UK based operator of a gas processing plant (with a processing capacity of up to 675 million cubic feet of gas per day from the North Sea) on the drafting of new direct liquids sales agreements and the amendment of existing liquids sale and purchase agreements between the operator and users of the plant.*

*Experience gained prior to joining Clyde & Co