Highlights of our experience in Energy Disputes in the UK

• A major oil and gas company on a USD 250m ICC arbitration concerning a North African production sharing contract. The arbitration is French-language with a Geneva seat.
• Twelve LNG and natural gas price review arbitrations and disputes on various rules (UNCITRAL, LCIA, ad hoc and ICC), in Europe and Asia, with a combined value of significantly in excess of USD 12bn.
• A Brazilian offshore oil services company on various disputes, terminations, settlements and contentious renegotiations arising from the high profile default of its main client, a Brazilian oil and gas company, and resulting financial difficulties and insolvency protection proceedings.
• One of the “Big Six” power companies in the UK on an investigation into allegations of miss-selling and breaches of the Standard Licensing Conditions
• An international oil company on a USD 500m LCIA arbitration in relation to engineering claims arising out of an EPC contract relating to the development of an oilfield in Iraq.
• A subsidiary of a supermajor in the English High Court on the termination of a suite of key transportation and processing agreements on the cusp of production from a GBP 700m development.
• The trading division of a national oil company on the Court of Appeal in an oil products case Lloyd’s List described as “the most spectacular shipping legal imbroglio so far this century”, which is the first case of a non-party being granted permission to make submissions in the Court of Appeal under an Arbitration Act 1996 appeal.
• A major oil & gas services company in the English High Court on claims and counterclaims arising from a contract to design, fabricate and construct process packages for installation onto an FPSO.

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