Oil and Gas

Table of contents Preface 5 Licences, concessions 7 and production sharing agreements Jubilee Easo Ashurst The bidding process and 29 bidding agreements Charez Golvala Chadbourne & Parke LLP Upstream joint ventures 47 and joint operating agreements Charez Golvala Chadbourne & Parke LLP International boundary 63 delimitation and disputes Mhairi Garcia Ashurst Unitisation and 81 unitisation agreements Danielle Beggs Justyna Bremen Denton Wilde Sapte LLP Financing upstream 97 developments Nick Ross McCall Huw Thomas Ashurst Buying and selling 113 upstream assets Erin Dyer Sharon Wilson Ashurst Decommissioning of 129 upstream oil and gas facilities Flavia Altit Shell International BV Mark Igiehon Shell UK Limited Gas sales and transportation 141 agreements Daniel O'Neill Ashurst Crude sales and 157 transportation agreements Mark Morrison Holman Fenwick Willan Pipelines and 171 pipeline projects William E Browning Infrastructure Development Partnership LLP Thomas J Dimitroff Oil and gas consultant Shipping arrangements 193 Denys Hickey Ince & Co Liquefied Natural Gas 223 Erin Dyer Daniel Reinbott Melanie Williams Ashurst Commingling, allocation 241 and attribution agreements Peter Taff Independent Consultant Richard Tyler Lovells LLP Gas balancing agreements 267 George Goolsby Baker Botts LLP Terminalling and processing 289 agreements Nina Howell Garry Pegg Hogan & Hartson About the authors 303