Pithecanthropus
/Pithecanthropus was the cruel soubriquet of the water bailiff at the Clypse reservoir. It is not clear whether it referred to his looks, his intelligence, or both . . .
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My Kingdom for a Horse
/I had thought that my earlier Tail, Horse, would be my last word on the Tesco horsemeat scandal. . . .
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/Many years ago Les took my father, brother and me to a Manx farm to introduce us to the farmer and ask if we could shoot wild ducks on his dub (the Manx word for a pond). . . .
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/I first came to the Isle of Man on holiday with my family in 1962. I was five years old. . . .
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/Walking to the pub I take a shortcut marked “Public Footpath to Main Road”. . .
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Chris Thorpe is a respected independent lawyer in the upstream oil and gas industry, and a 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, CPT Limited, 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. . .