We work for Norwegian and foreign players in the oil and gas industry. Our attorneys have extensive experience with instructions from oil and energy companies as well as public administration. We cooperate closely with the client and provide advisory services to enterprises with both onshore and offshore activities. We handle all the segments of the upstream and downstream petroleum chain, including production (oil, LNG, LPG, CNG), transport and exploitation.
We provide assistance for:
- Contract drafting, negotiations and dispute resolution
- Framework legislation, contact with the authorities and application processes
- Introduction of Norwegian and foreign companies to petroleum activities, prequalification
- Company law issues, joint ventures and other forms of cooperation, such as unitisation agreements
- Acquisition and sale of licences and companies, farm-in agreements
- Acquisition and sale of oil and gas, long and short-term contracts
- Lifting agreements and all forms of petroleum transport, terminal contracts, capacity rights in pipelines and terminals
- Drilling and service contracts, including FPSO and rig contracts, rig pool agreements
- Procurement regulations for the oil industry, the EU and competition laws
- Health, safety and the environment
- Financing, sale of shares, stock exchange introductions, etc.
- Petroleum taxation