Helping you navigate the complexities of oil & gas trade, manage risks, resolve disputes, and secure successful transactions in a dynamic and volatile market.
Our oil & gas trading team has many years of experience working with government owned producers, leading oil traders and energy multinationals. This has given us critical insight into how to put together deals, assess risks and advice on trading issues and the financing, transport and supply of oil and gas.
We advise on trading and operational disputes, covering matters of quality, quantity, contamination and shortage, and on letter of credit disputes and contracts for physical sale and purchase.
Our derivatives practice has grown out of our traditional strengths in the international trading market. Management of commodity price, freight, currency exchange and interest risks have become an everyday part of this sophisticated market. We also advise on a wide range of derivatives products.
Oil is one of the world's most traded commodities and presents many challenges, not least the close association between the oil price and the politics of some of the world’s most volatile regions. This instability continues to contribute to the high level of market speculation in relation to pricing and future availability.
Representing reinsurers in the successful settlement of a USD 30 million claim arising from a breakdown of a mechanical shovel and consequential business interruption claim at a large diamond mine loss concerning coverage and quantum issues
Advising a subsidiary of Eastern Petroleum Corporation on the acquisition of an oil field in Khanty-Mansiysk and the establishment of a JV company.
Acting for a well known international energy company in arbitration proceedings against a Balkan sovereign and a state owned oil refinery arising out of a crude oil processing agreement
Advising an international trading house on a JV to acquire and invest in petroleum distribution assets in southern Africa
Advising a West African trading company on an offshore oil exploration and production sharing agreement
Representing an Asian oil company in a USD 20 million UNCITRAL arbitration regarding the breach of a take or pay contract
Successfully acting on a multi-billion dollar arbitration concerning the Republic of Yemen's national wealth and in relation to a 20-year old Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) regarding the Marib Block 18 oil field in the Yemen. Reported in The American Lawyer as the 2nd largest contract dispute and the largest ICC arbitration in their 2007 Arbitration Scorecard.
Representing reinsurers in the successful settlement of a USD 30 million claim arising from a breakdown of a mechanical shovel and consequential business interruption claim at a large diamond mine loss concerning coverage and quantum issues
Advising an international trading house on a JV to acquire and invest in petroleum distribution assets in southern Africa
Advising a West African trading company on an offshore oil exploration and production sharing agreement
Advising a subsidiary of Eastern Petroleum Corporation on the acquisition of an oil field in Khanty-Mansiysk and the establishment of a JV company.
Representing an Asian oil company in a USD 20 million UNCITRAL arbitration regarding the breach of a take or pay contract
Acting for a well known international energy company in arbitration proceedings against a Balkan sovereign and a state owned oil refinery arising out of a crude oil processing agreement
Successfully acting on a multi-billion dollar arbitration concerning the Republic of Yemen's national wealth and in relation to a 20-year old Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) regarding the Marib Block 18 oil field in the Yemen. Reported in The American Lawyer as the 2nd largest contract dispute and the largest ICC arbitration in their 2007 Arbitration Scorecard.
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