Speaker - Mr C.P. Thorpe MA. LLB.
Duration - 2 Days
CPD Credit - 10.45 hrs
The purpose of the lecture is to look at upstream agreements from a practical, rather than an academic point of view, concentrating on the agreements that really matter and the issues that really arise under them.
The aim throughout is to ground the lecture in reality – the technical and commercial realities of the petroleum industry, using real negotiations, real agreements, real disputes and real people.
Chris Thorpe has been guided entirely by his own experience in this of over twenty-five years of negotiating, drafting and implementing these agreements.
There is no reason to suppose that his experience is untypical, but no one individual knows everything there is to know about the upstream.
The experience of others will inevitably differ from, and in some cases contradict, his own. It is expected that delegates of the lecture will share their experiences, to create a two-way dialogue that will be enormously valuable to all.
Course Overview
This is a foundation course, which focuses on the most common and important agreements used in the International Upstream Petroleum Industry.
It covers all aspects of agreements with resource holders, agreements between co-ventures, agreements with suppliers and contractors and agreements for the transportation and sale of production.
The course gives a detailed overview of the various agreements and identifies the key issues raised by each of them.
