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LEGAL ADVISORY WORK
Since the early 1980s, he has been a legal adviser or team leader on projects concerning petroleum legislation and contracts, EU gas and electricity legislative reform and regulatory issues for governments, national oil companies, international organisations and private oil companies. Some of them are the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Commission, the Energy Charter Secretariat, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, and various agencies of the United Nations (UN ESCAP, UN CTC and UNDP and UN ECE), as well as private companies and investors, such as BP, Shell, Goldman Sachs, Distrigas and Gasunie. On an ad hoc basis, he has also been invited by international consultancy firms and international financial institutions to act as legal adviser in oil and gas legal work.
Over more than 20 years, his legal practice in petroleum and energy law has extended to most parts of the globe. He worked extensively in Central and East Europe, and Central Asia throughout the 1990s, mostly on oil, gas and electricity reform from a legal and regulatory perspective. This included petroleum regime design in Albania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Russia .
Since then he has worked in Africa, with advisory work in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibi, Togo and Tanzania . He has been engaged to do legal work in the Middle East, including, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait . His involvement in EU countries includes work in Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Germany, and the Netherlands.
His legal advisory work has also extended to most Asian Pacific countries, especially China, Afghanista , Kyrgyzstan, India, Australia, New Zealand, and key Latin American and Caribbean countries, such as Brazil , Trinidad & Tobago, and Suriname.
His recent work has involved:
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Drafting a petroleum law for a major Middle Eastern country;
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Drafting a gas law for an African state that is developing gas-for-power projects;
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Advising on the public international law aspects of unitisation for a major cross-border gas field;
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Expert witness work for a leading petroleum producer;
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Review of environmental provisions in specific petroleum agreements for an NGO; and
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EU electricity and gas regulation advice for government officials and industry in EU and neighbouring countries.
