Inflation
/In a shop in Cecil Court in London I found a bank note with a face value of one hundred trillion dollars ($100,000,000,000). . . .
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Free Lunch
/In 1994 I was contacted by Mike, commercial manager of a small British independent oil company in London. . . .
Read MoreGoverning Law
/Every contract has a governing law, the system of rules by which the courts will interpret and enforce it, and with upstream agreements the governing law is always specified in the contract. . . .
Read MoreReign of Terror
/We go out for a pleasant business lunch in Boston. One of our hosts is a young geologist, who tells a funny but telling tale. . . .
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Chris Thorpe is a respected independent lawyer in the upstream oil and gas industry, and an 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, CPTL, 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. . .