Table of contents Preface 5 Financing upstream 95 Geoffrey Picton-Turbervill developments Ashurst LLP Nick Ross-McCall Huw Thomas Petroleum contracts: 7 Ashurst LLP licences, concessions, production-sharing agreements Trans-boundary pipeline 121 and service contracts and risk mitigation: the Jubilee Easo Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline Andrews Kurth William E Browning Thomas J Dimitroff Shale gas 21 Infrastructure Development George Antonopoulos Partnership LLP Vivek Bakshi Jennifer Morrissey Oil and gas projects 141 Dentons and human rights Jennifer Zerk Boundary delimitation 39 Jennifer Zerk Consulting and hydrocarbon resources Mhairi Main Garcia LNG – overview and 159 Ashurst LLP project essentials Erin Dyer Joint bidding and 63 Total SA operating agreements Daniel Reinbott Kevin Atkins Samuel Tan Charez Golvala Ashurst LLP Chadbourne & Parke LLP Gas sale and purchase 193 Unitisation and 81 agreements unitisation agreements Daniel O’Neill Danielle Beggs Tullow Oil plc John Stockdate Dentons Crude oil sale and 219 purchase agreements Alistair Feeney Holman Fenwick Willan LLP Shipping arrangements 231 Denys Hickey Thirty Nine Essex Street Commingling, attribution 243 and gas allocation agreements Lis Blunsdon Hogan Lovells International LLP Peter Taff Independent consultant Richard Tyler Hogan Lovells International LLP Gas processing 267 Nina Howell Garry Pegg King & Spalding International LLP Buying and selling 283 upstream assets Erin Dyer Total SA Sharon Wilson Herbert Smith Freehills Farm-outs 303 Julia Derrick Ashurst LLP Decommissioning of 313 upstream oil and gas facilities Mark Osa Igiehon Oil & Minerals for Good Global Forum About the authors 337.