Joint Operating Agreements: A Practical Guide

Author: Peter Roberts
Publisher: Globe Law and Business
ISBN: 9781905783311
Published In: March 2010
Format: Hardback , 285 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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The joint operating agreement (JOA) is one of the cornerstone contracts in the petroleum projects world and is often the starting point for further essential agreements relating to natural gas and crude oil processing, sales and transportation. The JOA enables long-term collaborative developments to be undertaken between groups of companies which have come together (often from diverse legal, commercial, cultural and political backgrounds) to share the high costs and risks which are inevitable in major petroleum exploration and production projects. It establishes common operational standards for application to developed jurisdictions and to emerging markets.

This new title provides a pragmatic examination of the provisions of a typical JOA in the order that they appear, with a particular focus on the critical issues of scope, the operator's role, joint and exclusive operations, default, transfers and decommissioning. There is also practical analysis of the key issues which apply to the operation of any JOA and the positions which are taken in the various leading industry model form contracts. The perspectives of the operator and non-operator are addressed, along with a consideration of the domestic and international standards which will apply to a petroleum project.

Author Peter Roberts a partner at international law firm Ashurst LLP and former general counsel of Centrica Energy. He is editor of the Journal of World Energy Law & Business, immediate past chairman of the International Bar Association Oil and Gas Committee, a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and the Society of Petroleum Engineers and an occasional lecturer at Dundee University. He is also the author of Gas Sales and Transportation Agreements: Principles and Practices.

Joint Operating Agreements: A Practical Guide is an essential addition to the library of any lawyers, commercial managers, advisers, engineers or financiers who are engaged in the development of petroleum exploration and production projects worldwide.

"The book is vital reading for those new to the negotiation and management of JOAs in the oil and gas industry, as well as being a useful reference for the old hands. The text is well written and quite understandable by those with no formal training in law." --- Professor Philip Andrews-Speed, Professor of Energy Policy, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee

"An insight into the joint operating agreement (JOA) so integral to energy projects the world over." --- Infrastructure Journal

Peter Roberts- Ashurst LLP