Offshore Floating Production: Legal and Commercial Risk Management

Edited by: Stuart Beadnall, Simon Moore, Max Lemanski

This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production. It deals with all legal and commercial risk management issues from initial concept through design, construction, modification, installation, acceptance, production and offloading, including ancillary legal topics: JV/consortiums, financing, insurance, decommissioning and intellectual property.

Floating production projects utilise vessels sitting over the offshore reservoir, receiving well fluids which are then processed, stored and offloaded to tankers. They operate in deep water, harsh conditions and marginal fields. This book analyses the legal issues and liabilities arising, considers how risks may be allocated between the parties, and how disputes are in practice resolved, illustrating these issues by focusing on each stage of the relationship between the oil and gas company and a specialist floating production contractor.

The book is of special interest to project managers and in-house lawyers at oil companies, offshore contractors, design consultants, construction companies, suppliers, vessel operators, banks, insurers and investors, and to private practice lawyers in jurisdictions where these projects occur, since contracts in this industry are often written under English law.

Contents: FPSO Design; Construction Contracts; Conversions, Refurbishment and Modification; The Charter Period; Contractor Remuneration; Offloading; Indemnity and Limitation of Liability Clauses; Insurance; Intellectual Property Rights; Termination; Decommissioning; Dispute Resolution.

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Q&A

Who is this book for?
Project managers and in-house lawyers at oil companies, offshore contractors, design consultants, construction companies, vessel operators, banks and insurers.

What stages of a floating production project does it cover?
Every stage, from FPSO design and construction through charter, offloading, insurance, decommissioning and dispute resolution.

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