Life Interest
/This is a Tail from the Manx farming community. It has been told for at least five generations, although that does not necessarily mean that it is true. . . .
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Tynwald Day
/On Tynwald Day each July two Deemsters read out, first in English and then in Manx all the laws passed in the previous year by Tynwald, the Manx Parliament. . . .
Read MoreThe Ellan Vannin
/n the small hours of 3rd December 1909, into the teeth of a full gale, the steamship Ellan Vannin left Ramsey harbour for Liverpool. . . .
Read MoreAn Empty Net
/We heard this delightful and self-deprecating tale from a friendly police officer on the Isle of Man. . . .
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Chris Thorpe is a respected independent lawyer in the upstream oil and gas industry, and a established lecturer and author. Chris has a LLB in law from Magdalene College, Cambridge and trained as a barrister in London. He worked for eight years' as an in-house lawyer for BP and Marathon. Since 1991, Chris has run his own upstream legal practice, CPT Limited, which has acted for many upstream clients. He has extensive experience of international upstream transactions, principally in the North Sea, the FSU, Africa and the Middle East. Chris has spoken at many UK and International Conferences and Seminars, both public and in-house. His most popular current lecture is Fundamental of Upstream Petroleum Agreements, a two-day course with accompanying book.
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Drilling an exploration well is always a tense time for those involved in it, even the lawyers and contracts specialists whose contribution is usually finished before the well is begun. . .