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.
Will The Spectre Of Macondo Loom Large Forever?
April 26 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorIn this exclusive podcast, Oil & Gas talks with Tom Fox, LexisNexus Top 20 legal blogger, former council at Halliburton and Principal of Tom Fox Law. An expert in compliance issues, Tom covers a r...
"If You Fail To Prepare, Be Prepared To Fail": Getting It Right During A Turnaround
April 03 by Oil & Gas IQSteven Suykens, Project Coordinator of Shutdowns for the Belgian Refining Corporation explains how to keep within the shutdown duration to attain efficient machinery up-time to Bryan Camoens. He als...
5 Ways To Prevent Plant Turnaround Failure
April 02 by Tim HaïdarSimply put if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Here are five ways that you can prevent any mishaps during your plant turnaround.
The Texas Anti-Indemnity Law – what does it mean for your business?
March 12 by Tim HaïdarOn 1 January 2012 new anti-indemnity law came into effect in Texas with important ramifications for the oil industry. Passed into statute books by Texas Governor Rick Perry, the Texas Anti-Inde...
Shell's Strategies and Tactics for Consequential Loss Drafting
January 23 by Bryan CamoensIn this exclusive interview with Oil & Gas IQ’s Bryan Camoens, Haward Soper Regional Contracts Manager - Middle East and Far East at Shell Global Solutions (Malaysia), gives us his perspecti...
21 Months On: The API Revisit Macondo And Voices The Lessons Learned
January 16 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorIn this exclusive interview, Holly Hopkins, Senior Policy Advisor at the American Petroleum Institute (API) speaks with Oil & Gas IQ’s Editor In Chief, Tim Haðdar, about the lay of the regulat...
Multiparty Contracting Post-Macondo: Ensuring Clarity And Limiting Liability
January 13 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorIn the run up to Oil & Gas IQ’s Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil and Gas Asia event, taking place on 20 - 21 March, 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Editor in Chief of OilandGasiQ.com, Tim Haðda...
Vertical Integration: A Way Out Of The Downward Spiral?
December 13 by Tim HaïdarIn 2011, ConocoPhillips announced to the world that it would be splitting its $94 billion dollar company into two separate halves, one for exploration and production (E&P) and the other for refining...
Strategies and tactics that you can use to enable innovation and creativity in collaborative contracting post-Macondo
December 06 by Oil & Gas IQCreating a conducive contracting climate and culture for creative contractingEnsuring both parties engage their innovative and creativity juicesDestroying the barriers and changing the paradigms that...
Seven Deadly Sins For A Compliance Program
November 06 by Thomas FoxIn an article in the October/November issue of Society of Corporate and Compliance Ethics Magazine (SCCE), entitled "The seven biggest mistakes companies make that erode ethical culture and destroy...
TI Take-Homes: Guidance on Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Due Diligence for M&A Transactions – Part II
October 30 by Thomas FoxTransparency International (TI) recently released a consultation draft of its White Paper entitled "Anti-Bribery Guidance for Transactions". In Part I we discussed the risks to companies involved in...
Global Compliance and FCPA: 20 Ideas from Thomas Fox for Playing by the Rules
October 30 by Thomas FoxColumnist's Note - I was honored and humbled to find this post wherein the Corporate Law Report collected twenty ideas I have set forth in my blog postings over the past couple of years. I was honor...