The Norwegians Go Sightseeing
/A negotiating team from one of the Norwegian oil companies had come to Tehran for a week to negotiate a Service Agreement, known as a “Buyback”, with the National Iranian Oil Company. . . .
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Serendipity
/In January 2003 I was in the upper cabin of a 747 for an overnight return flight from Calgary to Heathrow. . . .
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/In the year before I went to university I worked for four months as a domestic assistant at Banstead Mental Hospital. . . .
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/Only once in my thirty years in the upstream industry have I seen a negotiation turn into a fist fight. . . .
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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. . .