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Offshore Construction Project Management Support / 2020 incegd.com Europe & Middle East & Asia Offshore Construction Project Management Support / 2020 Ince Offshore Construction Project Management Support / 2020 In this fast-paced From our offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, our dedicated team of legal and world you are seeking business services professionals can guide you in developing and delivering on your a pro-active business roadmap for sustainable success and provide you with advice that will not only services partner that safeguard your business interests but ensure you reap commercial rewards. moves your company forward, someone Providing you with strategic guidance and well considered advice, we are renowned for the depth and breadth of our legal services and our understanding of the industries in who understands which you operate. We recognise your needs and offer business focussed legal services, together with advice that your challenges and makes commercial sense. the importance of One firm, in any case With about 150 years of experience, we have cultivated a commitment. seamless ‘one-firm’ approach that is tailored to your personal needs and pairs you with the best legal and strategic business professionals in your field; whenever, wherever, and in Meet Ince, your trusted any case. partner, in any case. Support, every step of the way By leveraging our sector expertise, legal skills and market experience, you can feel safe in the knowledge that we will both handle complex legal issues on your behalf while providing you with expert strategic advice when the need arises. multiple nationalities countries offices different employees legal and language worldwide, business services capabilities including professionals support staff 01 Offshore Construction Project Management Support / 2020 Offshore Construction Project Management Support Ince has many years’ experience of drafting and negotiating Our contract experts are also litigators – and we draw on our contracts for engineering and construction in the shipbuilding experience of disputes when drafting and negotiating and energy sectors, and in resolving disputes which arise contracts. We know where the problems may arise, because during the life of these projects. Our credentials are founded we have seen many of them before. Our aim is to prevent our on advising maritime service providers and offshore clients from getting into trouble in the first place. Often we contractors over many years. We are one of the leading use this litigation experience to advise our clients behind the practices specialising in floating and fixed installations in both scenes on how to avoid legal disputes during construction and deep-water and near shore environments. conversion projects without the other party even knowing of our involvement. We deal with contracts and disputes ranging from the design, engineering and construction of floating production (oil and In handling such cases, we are accustomed to dealing with gas) including process topsides, floating regasification, legal, contractual and technical matters, and in particular floating power and fixed installations (including wind working alongside consultants such as programming experts, turbines, moorings, berths and production platforms), quantity surveyors and engineers engaged by clients. specialised vessels such as well stimulation ships, mobile offshore drilling units, pipelines, terminals, and onshore power and industrial complexes such as refineries, and waste- to-energy plants. 02 Ince Offshore Construction Project Management Support / 2020 Shipbuilding and offshore Floating regasification (LNG) construction Many of our clients involved in LNG shipping have now transitioned into offering floating regas solutions. We have We have decades of experience in shipbuilding and offshore worked closely with those clients to provide them with the construction and are at the forefront of acting for shipowners advice and assistance that they need to successfully tender to and builders worldwide. Our offices have handled hundreds provide floating regas units and import terminals along with of cases involving conventional vessels and offshore the ancillary services such as moorings and shuttle construction projects over the past few years. tankers/LNG train tankers. We have been involved in projects in South America, the Baltic, the Arabian Gulf, Italy, We frequently advise on the wording of contracts for Pakistan and Indonesia. We have also been heavily involved newbuildings, floating production units (including process in negotiating conversion, topsides supply and new building topsides), specialised vessels such as well stimulation ships, contracts for FSRUs. mobile offshore drilling units, together with associated documents such as performance and refund guarantees, and also the financing of such projects. Our experience includes the drafting of many contracts from scratch and we often Floating power participate in negotiations. Over recent years energy providers have focused on the Floating production (Oil, LPG offshore generation and supply of power and there has been an increased development of floating power plants. Our and LNG) maritime expertise combined with our EPC practice has allowed us to assist contractor clients in developing power generation solutions whether this be barge, platform or vessel based. We have worked on bespoke EPC We have been involved in the development of floating arrangements to assist in the development of FPP projects offshore storage and production vessels since the first FPSO including associated heavy lift and topsides requirements for was commissioned in the late 1970s. Building on this clients. experience, we are now one of the world’s leading legal service providers to the owners and operators of FPSOs, FSRU’s and MOPUs/MODUs and other offshore units. Our expertise has easily translated into the developing FLNG Renewables (floating liquefaction) field where we are already assisting a number of clients in relation to current or proposed projects. We assist our clients in project tendering, drafting, Based on our experience of offshore construction and drilling, negotiating and qualifying the project contracts (whether as well as shipping, we have built a significant wind and wave they be FEED contracts, EPCIC – with or without marine energy practice advising contractors, turbine manufacturers spread installation services – or leases/BOT contracts), and power companies. We have advised on various offshore drawing up or advising on the construction or conversion wind farms, both operational and under construction, as well contracts, financing the projects and insuring the risks as a hybrid offshore wind and gas farm. We have also worked involved. We have undertaken project work in all of the major intensively on the construction of specialist installation offshore fields and have particular experience of Brazil, North vessels utilising the very latest technologies, and regularly Sea, Gulf of Guinea and the South China Sea. advise offshore contractors on the full range of installation contracts. 03 Ince Offshore Construction Project Management Support / 2020 • Advising and assisting with the drafting and qualification Fixed installations and of construction and sale contracts (whether on EPC, EPCI, EPCIC, BOT or conversion basis), operational contracts pipelines (bareboat charters, leases, services and O&M contracts) and contracting arrangements such as framework and call-off contracts. A number of our team have spent time In addition to bespoke EPC project work we are have also working in house with contractors to gain face-to-face worked extensively with LOGIC and FIDIC contracting experience of the commercial development and arrangements. We have assisted clients on numerous negotiation process. Many of the team have spent onshore and offshore construction projects from oil and gas prolonged periods in yards working on disputes. We have pipelines (including flow stations, pump stations and also developed our own detailed contracting baselines compressor and meter facilities), mooring facilities to port focusing on risk apportionment between contractor and and terminal construction and development. We work closely company on knock-for-knock, indemnities, liability caps with project management and engineering consultants to and pollution regimes. Our offshore practice working for develop the legal framework for the design, procurement, contractors, drillers and junior oil allows us to be at the installation and construction of such facilities. leading edge of developments on crucial contracting issues and principles. Project management support • Assisting with associated activities. As well as contracts related to offshore units, we also work with clients on associated contracts including FEED contracts, SURF and subsea arrangements, sub-contracts and purchase orders, We can use our extensive experience to help you minimise shipyard services arrangements and the full BIMCO suite the risk of disputes in your projects, anticipate problems and of contracts for other operational matters. A full service plan ways to minimise their impact. finance capability covering asset, project and structured finance solutions. We assist contractors and banks in We offer the following services: putting in place financing arrangements and we are a panel firm for a number of the major banks working in the • Assisting throughout the tendering process, from pre- offshore field. We have recently acted