Oil and Gas

LXL excels in the Oil & Gas sector, understanding our clients’ specific needs and working confidently within international legal teams to achieve their objectives.

With deep industry knowledge in-house, we add value across the entire petroleum, exploration, and production chain, including LNG and Gas. Our clients include governments, state-owned enterprises, major international and independent oil companies, and private investors.

We advise globally on licensing, concessions, production sharing, acquisitions, farm-ins/outs, joint ventures, decommissioning, shipping, and petroleum sales. We also specialise in disputes, sanctions, and compliance, including construction and operation of major LNG terminals, gas sale agreements, and regulatory matters.

Examples of matters we have advised on inter alia are:

Crude oil pipeline – $1 billion

Petronas in the acquisition of participation rights, construction and financing of a major pipeline project for the transport and export of crude oil in Sudan

FSRU Construction Ease Africa – Value Confidential

A Major Asian oil and gas company on the construction of a FSRU by a Chinese company for a project in East Africa

Petronas LNG Sale – Value Confidential

Petronas in the sale of 3.6 million tonnes per annum of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Two long-term contracts were entered into to transport the LNG to the US and to Italy

Further detailed work examples available on request.