Gas and LNG Sales and Transportation Agreements Principles and Practice 4ed.

Oil and Gas Exploration Agreements
Background
Background legal framework
Licensing and production sharing regimes
Contracts and the operator
The Operator's relationships with joint ventures under the JOA
With contractors under commercial agreements
Legal considerations covering contract, general and international law, safety, employment, environmental law, dispute resolution
Importance of the commercial contract
The negotiation process
Alliancing
Standardisation
Letters of intent
Options
Tendering and the enquiry package
Joint venture agreements
Commercial agreements between joint venture partners including AMI agreements, bidding agreements and joint study agreements
Agreements for services
Joint ventures and third party contractors
Agreements for services
Offshore
Onshore
Construction
Drilling
Vessel
Aircraft
Geophysical
Data licensing
Consultancy and procurement services
Drilling contracts
Drilling contracts
Rig sharing and rig assignment contracts
Transactions
Agreements for the acquisition and disposal of exploration assets held under licence, namely asset/share sales, farm-outs, exchange agreements
Disclosures
Warranties
Pre-emption clauses
Oil and Gas Production Contracts
Introduction
Government agreements
Joint operating agreements (JOAs)
Joint venture agreements
Pre-unitisation agreements
Unitisation agreements
Oil and gas lifting agreements
Sleeping Partner agreements (allowing some JV parties to continue production)
Decommissioning agreements
Decommissioning security agreements, parent company guarantees and performance bonds
Contracts with contractors for services
Production platform and FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) construction agreements
Production platform and FPSO operating agreements
Contracts for producing services
Platform ancillary services agreements
Contracts with other JVs for services
Indicative tariff and service request agreements
Oil and gas processing agreements
Oil transportation agreements
Gas transportation agreements
Pipeline tie-in agreements
Pipeline crossing agreements
Proximity agreements
Agreements for use of producing facilities for e.g. electricity generation
Power supply agreements (perhaps in exchange for production)
Power export agreements
Emissions trading and C02 injection agreements
Sales contracts
Oil sales contracts
Gas sales contracts
LNG and LPG sales contracts
Production exchange agreements
Transactions
Production acreage sale and purchase and exchange agreements
Farm-in agreements
Asset exchange agreements
Sale and leaseback agreements
Sale with obligation to take back at end of production