Laurel and Hardy
/Middlemen are fact of life in the Middle East. This is a tale of two of them, a double act whom I shall refer to as Mr A and Mr B . . .
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A Crossed Line
/In June 1978 I received the results of my Part I law exams . . .
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/When I was a teenager, my father was stopped by the police for speeding on Banstead Road, Banstead. He was doing 53mph in a 30mph limit. . . .
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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. . .