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/In 1991 I had left employment and was running my own practice ...
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/A few years ago I was advising a start-up exploration company, and we went to a meeting with our financiers in London. . . .
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/We are waiting in Doha Airport to board a flight to Kuwait. It is late in the evening and the plane is delayed by technical problems. . . .
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/I am in Tehran with the Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer, who are here to sign an exploration agreement in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea. . . .
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/In the 1970s carmaker British Leyland did not have the money to develop new models, and so adopted a different approach . . .
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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. . .