Trading on Looks
/I am on my way to a meeting, and I drop in on Jeanne-Marie, head of the legal and commercial department, to discuss how she wants me to play it. . . .
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Pistachios
/When I agreed to carry a consignment of pistachio nuts from Tehran to Kuwait, as a favour to a friend, I gave no thought to the quantities involved. . . .
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/During my first in-house role, BP Chemicals decided to outsource the debt-collection work, my responsibility, to an outside firm. . . .
Read MoreExistence and Non-Existence
/In legal terms, a company is a person. In the eyes of the law a company is as much a person as a human being is. . . .
Read MoreMillionaires
/As we saw in another Tale from the Arena, Iranian Numbers, the business hotels in Tehran prefer payment in US Dollars. . . .
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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. . .