Saudi Logic
/This is a second hand but alarming Tale told by my friend William, an American lawyer who worked for many years in Saudi Arabia. . . .
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Read Your Agreement
/I was working for one of the big operators in the North Sea, and one morning the Exploration Manager asked me to be on standby for a Joint Operating Committee meeting. . . .
Read MoreThe Uses of a Crane
/On a BA flight to Tehran I find myself next to a businessman from the North of England. We start to talk. He is a thoroughly decent young man with a difficult mission. . . .
Read MoreA Quiet Word
/A few years ago, working for an operator on the UKCS, I had dealings with a young lawyer working for a small contractor. . . .
Read MoreThe Grasshopper
/In 2006 I gave a two-day lecture in Lagos. At the end of the first day one of the delegates invited me to join him for dinner that evening with two of his friends. . . .
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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. . .