Offshore and Energy
By its very nature, the offshore industry requires its lawyers to have a wide range of both litigious and non-litigious expertise. Our team provides effective, commercial advice from all areas arising from offshore disputes.
Our clients include oil majors, commodity houses, insurers and reinsurers, P&I Clubs, offshore contractors and owners of FPSOs, platforms, rigs and other offshore craft and installations. We are members of the Energy Institute and InterTanko. We have been heavily involved in a number of high profile energy/offshore cases ( such as the Sea Empress, Piper Alpha, P36, the recent Metro litigation and administration of ENRON)
The services we offer include:
- Major casualty and emergency response (including initial investigation work, taking evidence, handling the media and obtaining security)
- Dispuite resolution in the energy/offshore sector (whether in one jurisdiction or multiple jurisdictions)
- Advice on offshore contractual and insurance arrangements
- Contingency planning
- Contracts for the sale, supply and carraige of oil and gas
- Refining and processing agreements
- Damage to rigs, FPSOs, oil terminals and other offshore craft and structures (including collision and wreck removal)
- Drilling and exploration contracts and joint ventures
- Construction, installation and refurbishment disputes (in relation to inter alia, rigs, pump lines and well heads)
- Regulatory aspects of the sale of oil and gas and UN sanctions