Ebook: Gas and LNG Sales and Transportation Agreements: Principles and Practice

This book provides a practical and comprehensive guide to the law and practice of structuring projects for the sale and transportation of gas and LNG based on the author's own extensive experience. The discussion is augmented by three precedent agreements and further clause examples demonstrating the practical mechanics of putting the deal together.

Presents a detailed, hands-on guide to the drafting, negotiation and interpretation of natural gas and LNG trading, shipping and transportation contracts
It contains three new chapters on LNG Trading Platforms, MSA Terms, and Sales Contracts for Unconventional Gas.
Highlights the legal and commercial issues involved at each stage and advises how they should be handled in practice
Offers clause-by-clause commentary on the typical provisions within gas and LNG, sales, shipping and transportation agreements
Pinpoints the key issues and suggests solutions to problems that can arise
Discusses the nature of gas and LNG and the contracting process
Explains in detail the standard components of contracts, including quality and pressure, liabilities and limitations, force majeure and dispute resolution
Provides discussion on the commercialisation of natural gas in light of concerns about climate change, cleaner energy sources and the security of energy supplies
Includes expertly drafted precedent agreements
Covers price reviews and reopeners
They are written from the perspective of English law but in the light of international experience and practice.
Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts is an energy law practitioner with two decades of oil and gas project commercial and regulatory experience.
Trained as a solicitor in England and admitted to practising law in Hong Kong, he was previously in-house counsel for Exxon for several years. He has partnered with UK and US law firms and was the former General Counsel of Centrica Energy. He has also lived and worked in Asia for eight years. He is the managing partner of the London office of Andrews Kurth LLP.
He authorises numerous papers and articles and two other leading energy sector textbooks. A regular speaker at energy conferences, he is the General Editor of the AIPN's Journal of World Energy Law & Business (published by the OUP). Peter is also a former chairman of the IBA oil and gas law committee, is an Honorary Lecturer at Dundee University's Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy and is a member of the global faculty of the Qatar University Centre for Energy, Environmental and Sustainability Law and Policy.