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Oil & Gas Contracts

Exploration and Production of hydrocarbons is a risky business. How do you and your company protect yourselves from all the risks that are inherent in that process? On these courses, the legal concepts that are used to mitigate and minimize risk in the oil and gas industry will be carefully explained. Terms that employees may well have heard of – warranties, guarantees, indemnities, force majeure clauses, liquidated damages provisions etc. – will be analyzed and dissected and placed in their proper legal context. Real life examples will be used.  At the end of the course you will have a complete understanding of the oil and gas industry from a legal standpoint, vertically and horizontally, upstream to downstream and from contract formation to techniques to resolve disputes.

Senior Program Leader: Dr David Parratt

Please visit our contact page to contact us for further information on any of the following courses.

  • How to be a Successful Negotiator in Contract Claims and Disputes

    This exciting new course looks at how we negotiate to get to the best position for our companies and corporations. We have to negotiate in daily life of course, but at the stage of contract formation or at the point of negotiation following a dispute, the skills to be used are different. Psychologists tell us that of all information communicated, 10% is through words, 40% through para-language and 50% through body language! It is crucially important to have an understanding of the subliminal messages that we unconsciously send when one is negotiating on behalf of a company.

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  • A-Z Dispute Resolution Techniques

    A dispute arises between you and the contractor. What do you do? a) negotiate with them? b) suggest mediation? c) go to arbitration? d) go to court? e) do nothing and claim LD’s? All these are possible outcomes from a dispute. This course has been specially written for those who are at the sharp end of operations and face defective performance and breach of contract from contracting parties on a daily basis. The course will provide a better understanding of how disputes can be negotiated or at least kept out of the public eye.

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  • Masterclass in International Arbitration

    Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). It’s a technique for the resolution of disputes outside litigation and the courts. The parties to a dispute refer it to arbitration to be decided by one or more persons (the “arbitrators” or “arbitral tribunal” or “panel”), and agree to be bound by the arbitration decision (the “Award”). As independent third parties the arbitrators consider the evidence in the case and impose a decision that is legally binding on both sides and enforceable in the courts.

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  • Oil and Gas Negotiation for Non-Lawyers To Avoid Disputes

    This successful and popular composite course is designed to provide an understanding of how contracts in the oil and gas industry operate and how such contracts are negotiated. Of key importance is an understanding of the legal matrix and the different legal system approaches underlying such contracts and from there, the different kinds of contracts that exist in the market. Once you get a handle on those concepts, you can start to appreciate how disputes can be avoided in the operation of oil and gas contracts and what techniques exist to mitigate risk and loss and how disputes can be minimised.

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  • A-Z of Production Sharing Agreements

    This course has been specially written for high end employees, high level managers and board members of companies involved in E&P and who are operating in foreign states and who will have some exposure to State/Investor negotiations in respect of Cost Oil and Profit Oil and Production Sharing Agreements (PSA’s) or Production Sharing Contracts (PSC’s).

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