The firm’s natural resources practice is based on the oil and gas industry and our lawyers have a deep understanding of the oil and gas sector. Our team of lawyers is dedicated to and works exclusively in this sector and is regularly involved in advising on oil and gas projects and transactions. Our oil and gas practice is based across our international network of law practice groups and associated offices, ensuring we have people available on the ground wherever our clients are operating.
Our clients in these regions include; major integrated oil companies, pure E&P companies, service companies, Governments, IOCs and NOCs. Our work in the sector deals with upstream oil and gas projects, LNG projects, gas pipelines, petrochemicals and refining, trading and distribution downstream, Public International Law issues, international dispute resolution, shipping, international projects/project finance and regulatory/health and safety and compliance.
We are able to advise on many international law issues affecting upstream investment, including boundary delimitation issues, JDZs and environmental and related international obligations. The firm handles all aspects of oil and gas resources matters, which include licensing, transportation and storage, advice on farm in/farm-out arrangements and financing, and advice on leases and production sharing contracts (PSC).The firm’s knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework of the oil and gas industry is arguably unsurpassed in Nigeria. Hence, its involvement in transactions ranging from the acquisition and assignment of oil mining leases.
The firm also offers expertise in the extensive area within the “upstream” and “down-stream” sectors of the oil and gas industry, the acquisition and disposal of interests in oil and gas fields, marginal fields and other concessions, as well as advisory and project finance transactions within the sector
