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Concentration International energy
Summary Tony Higginson provides advice both within the United Kingdom and internationally in relation to corporate and asset acquisitions and divestitures and energy projects. His experience includes: petroleum concessions, production sharing contracts and risk service contracts; joint ventures; farm-in agreements; asset exchanges; downstream refining and product sales; sale and purchase of natural gas, GTL, and LNG; pipelines; generation and supply of electricity; drilling and service contracts.
Representative Engagements Recent Asset/Corporate Acquisitions and Divestitures
- Nigeria – sale of interest in OML 130 for $2.6 billion (2006)
- U.K. – acquisition of Baytrust Oil Explorations and Unilon Oil Explorations (2006)
- Egypt – purchase of producing gas assets (2007)
- Singapore – sale of rig companies for $420 million (2006)
- Singapore - sale of Petrojack rig for $199 million (2009)
- Purchase of company owning Qatar Exploration and Production Contract (2009)
- Acquisition of Yalama Block, Azerbaijan (2008)
Recent International Energy Projects
Azerbaijan
- Advice on gas sales and transportation agreements for the Shah Deniz gas pipeline project to Turkey
Gabon
- Advice in relation to the sale and purchase of interests in production sharing agreements
- Advice on sale risk dispute in producing field
India
- Advice to the bidder on the sale of Hindustan Petroleum
Iraq
- Advice in relation to production sharing agreements in Kurdistan, field development and production
Mozambique
- Advice on the development of the Pande/Temane gas fields, the sale of natural gas and condensate
- Advice in relation to transportation and processing of natural gas
- Advice in relation to oil & gas service/drilling contracts
Nigeria
- LNG – advice to major LNG project company on gas purchase
- Advice on miscellaneous asset sales and farm-ins
Papua New Guinea
- Advice in relation to farm-ins to petroleum licences
Qatar
- GTL – advice to Oryx GTL
- Advice in relation to acquisition of company owning EPSA contract
Tunisia
- Advice in relation to a farm-in to a production sharing contract
United Kingdom
- Purchase of FPSO, Global Producer III
- Purchase of various Southern Gas Basin Fields (2007)
- Advice on acquisition of capacity and shareholding in the U.K. Interconnector
- Advice on numerous farm-ins, asset acquisitions, and disposals
- Advice on various long-term gas contract disputes and gas trading
- Advice on downstream refining and product marketing
- Advice on field developments, FPSOs, and capacity and transportation rights
- Advice in relation to gas storage
Yemen
- Advice to operator on field development of the East Sarr Block
- Advice in relation to numerous farm-ins and PSA applications
Mr. Higginson has also advised on the negotiation of production sharing and concession agreements in: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique, New Zealand, Nigeria, the People's Republic of China, the Philippines, Qatar, the Russian Federation, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Yemen.
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