Legal and Regulatory
From contract risk management, to international boundary disputes, through production sharing agreements and mitigating the risk of international sanctions, the oil and gas industry is a complex legal and regulatory environment to operate in. Oil and gas law is a particularly complicated by regulations - oil regulations, gas regulations, natural gas regulations. This industry resource centre is the place to find best practice from the leading lawyers and practitioners in this field.
Local content and oil and gas: boon companions?
October 06 by Sumit DuttaIn this Oil & Gas IQ interview at the 2015 Global Local Content Summit, Dr Jesse Salah Ovadia, discusses the industrial and governmental factors in oil and gas local content policy.
The Baker Hughes Investigative Process: John Upton Explains
August 11 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorJohn Upton is Legal Counsel – Audits and Investigations for Baker Hughes, a leading Global Oilfield Services Company. John’s role is to carry out FCPA audits and internal investigations...
[EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] Mexico: Local Action For Global Competitiveness
August 04 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorMexico is currently involved in one of the broadest set of reforms in its recent history, setting new norms and targets for a range of commercial and social enterprises. The energy industry is one...
[INTERVIEW] Petrobras And Local Content: Fostering Supply Chain Competition And Sustainability
June 24 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorLocal content is an evolving part of the makeup of oil and gas producing nations across the world, the great equaliser for nations that had seen little benefit from their indigenous hydrocarbon wealth...
[EBOOK] Top Five Global Patent Concerns
June 15 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorWhat keeps the patent industry awake at night? During the past few months our colleagues at the Legal IQ network have been working hard with industry experts to prepare the latest whitepaper base...
[INFOGRAPHIC] Intellectual Property 2015: The Oil & Gas Perspective
December 11 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorIn this exclusive infographic produced by Oil & Gas IQ, we take an in-depth look at the state of intellectual property in the 21st century hydrocarbons industry. From the rise of patent trolling t...
Contractual Risk Management In Capital Projects – A New Frontier
November 30 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorThe Oil and Gas Industry is investing heavily in capital projects with a view to finding more recoverable reserves. Upstream global investment reached almost $700bn in 2013, much of this investment wa...
Collaboration: Not A Dirty Word In Oil & Gas
October 08 by Tim HaïdarSince the beginning of oil and gas extraction in the 1820s, companies have been unlocking value and revenue through a constant evolution of process and technology. A business definition of the wor...
[EBOOK] Local Content: Levelling The Playing Field
July 09 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorThe oil and gas industry has been extracting and refining petroleum since the 1820s. In the two centuries since this began in Russia and Central Europe, companies and governments the world over have...
The Four Pillars of Supply Chain Compliance In Oil & Gas
May 22 by Tim HaïdarThe oil and gas supply chain is one of the most complex webs of organisations, activities, information, and resources in global business today.Straddling the six inhabited continents and spanning disc...
10 Ways The BP Trial Is Already Changing Oil & Gas Law
April 03 by Tim HaïdarIn this exclusive interview, we speak with John Warren, Senior Legal Counsel, Petrobras Americas Inc about the intricacies of indemnification in the Gulf of Mexico. John P. Warren, Jr. is the Senior...
5 Ways To Bulletproof Your Boilerplate Contracts
March 20 by Tim HaïdarIn this exclusive podcast, we speak to Erin McClarty, Head of Legal: Subsurface Imaging at CGG about how the correct use of boilerplate contracts could end up saving your organisation millions if...