Environmental / Energy Law Shipping

Gas and LNG Sales and Transportation Agreements: Principles and Practice, 7th Edition

By Peter Roberts
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. June 2023

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ISBN-13
9780414111295
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
June 2023
Format
Hardback , 608 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only
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This book provides a practical and comprehensive guide to the law and practice of structuring projects for the sale and transportation of gas and LNG, based on the author's own comprehensive experience. The discussion is augmented by three precedent agreements and a set of further clause examples which demonstrate the practical mechanics of putting the deal together.

  • Presents a detailed, hands-on guide to the drafting, negotiation and interpretation of natural gas and LNG trading, shipping and transportation contracts
  • Contains three new chapters on LNG Trading Platforms; MSA Terms; and Sales Contracts for Unconventional Gas
  • Highlights the legal and commercial issues involved at each stage and advises how they should be handled in practice
  • Offers clause-by-clause commentary on the typical provisions within gas and LNG, sales, shipping and transportation agreements
  • Pinpoints the key issues and suggests solutions to problems that can arise
  • Discusses the nature of gas and LNG and the contracting process
  • Explains in detail the common components of contracts, including quality and pressure, liabilities and limitations, force majeure and dispute resolution
  • Provides discussion on the commercialisation of natural gas in light of concerns about climate change, cleaner energy sources and the security of energy supplies
  • Includes expertly drafted precedent agreements
  • Covers price reviews and reopeners
  • Written from the perspective of English law but in the light of international experience and practice

Table of Contents

SECTION I
PART A : GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1. The nature of gas and LNG
2. Project structuring
3. The contracting process
4. Regulatory issues
5. Price
6. Price review
7. Collateral support
PART B : GAS AND LNG SALES
8. Contract forms
9. Parties
10. Term
11. The delivery point, delivery
12. Quantities, rates, reserves
13. Nominations, scheduling
14. Shortfall 
15. Undertake, overtake
16. Take and pay, take or pay
17. Make up, carry forward
PART C : GAS TRANSPORTATION
18. Pipeline principles
19. Parties
20. Term
21. The input point, the delivery point
22. Quantities, capacities
23. Transporter and shipper obligations
24. Transporter and shipper failure
25. Tariff, capacity payment, ship or pay
26. Commingling, allocation, attribution
PART D : LNG TRANSPORTATION
27. LNG shipping
28. Charterparty and SPA interfaces
PART E : COMMON COMPONENTS
29. Invoicing, payment 
30. Quality specification
31. Off-specification gas and LNG
32. Measurement
33. Facilities
34. Maintenance
35. Force majeure
36. Liability, limitation
37. Transfers, third party performance, control
38. Termination
39. Dispute resolution
40. Other provisions
SECTION II
Appendix A – Proforma Gas Sales Memorandum of Understanding
Appendix B – Proforma Gas Sales Agreement
Appendix C – Proforma Gas Transportation Memorandum of Understanding
Appendix D – Proforma Gas Transportation Agreement
Appendix E – Additional Drafting

About the Author

Peter Roberts
Peter Roberts is an energy law practitioner with two decades of oil and gas project commercial and regulatory experience.  
Trained as a solicitor in England and also admitted to practise law in Hong Kong, he was previously in-house counsel for Exxon for several years.  He has been a partner with UK and US law firms and was the former General Counsel of Centrica Energy.  He has also lived and worked in Asia for 8 years. He is presently the managing partner of the London office of Andrews Kurth LLP.
He is the author of numerous papers and articles and two other leading energy sector textbooks. A regular speaker at energy conferences, he is the General Editor of the AIPN's Journal of World Energy Law & Business (published by the OUP).  Peter is also a former chairman of the IBA oil and gas law committee, is an Honorary Lecturer at Dundee University's Centre for Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy and is a member of the global faculty of the Qatar University Centre for Energy, Environmental and Sustainability Law and Policy

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