Concentration

Energy projects

Summary

Hannah Longley joined Baker Botts in October 2007. She has considerable experience in the energy sector and has advised on a wide range of upstream oil and gas projects, numerous LNG projects (including regasification terminals, liquefaction plants, floating LNG and associated financing and shipping arrangements) and downstream gas and infrastructure projects.

Ms. Longley has experience in negotiating, drafting and advising on complex commercial arrangements, including joint venture agreements (such as joint operating agreements, unitisation agreements and shareholder agreements), gas sales agreements, corporate and asset acquisitions and disposals, farm-in agreements, production sharing agreements, drilling and service contracts, FEED contracts, EPC contracts, LNG sale and purchase arrangements and LNG terminal use agreements.

Ms. Longley has recently worked on projects which cover interests in Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Kurdistan, Nigeria, the Netherlands and the UK. Prior to joining Baker Botts, Ms. Longley worked as in-house counsel for BG Group plc. During her time at BG, Ms. Longley was seconded to the Egyptian LNG joint venture in Cairo and has also spent time seconded to an international law firm in London.

Representative Engagements

Upstream

• French multinational - advising on upstream interests in Egypt
• Major Asian energy company - advising on a bid for and subsequent acquisition of crude oil producing assets in Brazil
• U.S. independent - advising on the acquisition of upstream interests in Kurdistan
• UK subsidiary of Major Japanese company - advising on a range of UK North Sea commercial and operational issues
• Private company - advising on upstream interests in Oman and Egypt
• UK independent - advice on the unitisation of the Jubilee field, offshore Ghana, the first Ghanaian unitisation 
• Advice on the formation of a joint venture for the evaluation and acquisition of upstream interests in West Africa
• Advice on farm-out agreement and joint operating agreement in Mozambique
• Advice on drilling and service contracts in Mozambique
• Advice on various operated and non-operated UK North Sea field developments, joint operating agreements and transportation and processing agreements
• Advice on numerous UK and international farm-ins, transfers and asset acquisitions and disposals

Midstream, Downstream and LNG

• Major Energy Company - advising on the development of a floating liquefaction project, including and RFP, FEED contracts, joint venture agreements, EPC contracts and related project agreements
• Major Energy Company - advising on numerous LNG sale and purchase agreements and several major downstream gas projects
• Major Energy Company - advising on the tender for and chartering of an LNG floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for operation in Brazil
• International investment bank - advice on the purchase and supply of commissioning cargoes to a European LNG terminal
• Independent joint venture - advising on the development of customer and inter-customer agreements for a European LNG terminal
• Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd - advice on sale and purchase agreement to purchase LNG from the Sakhalin II Project and related agreements
• Brass LNG – advice in relation to EPC contracts for the development of a two-train LNG project in Nigeria
• Dragon LNG – advice on the development, construction, and financing of the Dragon LNG importation terminal at Milford Haven in Wales
• Egyptian LNG – acting for the joint venture companies advising on all aspects of the operation and financing of the two-train LNG project at Idku in Egypt
• Papua New Guinea LNG – member of team advising on LNG shipping matters, including shipbuilding contracts, time charter parties and related documents
• Advice on long term LNG sale and purchase agreements
• Acting for the purchaser of three new build LNG ships and negotiation of a bareboat charter facility in an amount of $500 million
• Advice on the delivery and registration of an LNG-ship under Bermudan flag
• Advice on European gas marketing and trading arrangements

 Publications, Speeches and Presentations

Presentations

• “Key Contracts across the Gas Value Chain Workshop,” CWC Rio Gas Forum 2012, Rio de Janeiro, March 2012
• “Pre-Salt Investment Workshop: Mastering the New Brazilian PSA,” CWC Rio Gas Forum, Rio de Janiero, April 2011
• “Developing FLNG Projects,” IQPC Global FLNG Summit, London, January 2011
• “International Upstream Agreements,” Oil & Gas Lawyers School, London, October 2010
• “Floating LNG: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges,” The Future of LNG Shipping, London, June 2010
• “Effective Risk Mitigation in the Development of a FLNG Project”, Deepwater Development, Amsterdam, March 2010
• Workshop presenter, “Floating LNG: Joint Venture Contracting,” IQPC Global FLNG Summit, London, January 2010
• “International Upstream Agreements,” Oil & Gas Lawyers School, Astana, Kazakhstan, September 2009

Publications

• “Analysing Upstream Joint Ventures in the Context of FLNG Project Development,” LNG Journal, April 2011 (John White, co-author)
• “Floating Liquefied Natural Gas: The Solution for Small Stranded Offshore Gas Fields?,” Offshore Magazine, November 2009 (John White, co-author)
• “The floating option to supplying natural gas,” The National Law Journal, October 2009 (John White, co-author)