The Need to Feed
/Some years ago I was involved in the development of a big oil field discovered in UK waters. Since it lay across two licence areas, the field had to be unitised. . . .
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Rock and a Hard Place
/When the oil price was rocketing between 2002 and 2008, I was working for a small exploration and production company. . . .
Read MoreA Case in Oldham
/This is a tale told by John Orrell, a senior lawyer with BP when I joined them, who became a good friend. Under a quiet professional demeanor he had a sparkling sense of humour. . . .
Read MoreWhat Makes A Good Agent?
/In a lift in the Sheraton Hotel in Kuwait, I met an American businessman whose eyes were glazed and smelt of alcohol. . . .
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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. . .