Overview of oil and gas projects

Speaker: Paul Deemer (Vinson & Elkins)
Chair: Dr Danae Azaria (University College London)
Series: Energy Law Seminar Series

About the seminar

This seminar would include a general overview of oil and gas projects including upstream exploration, development and production, development and operation of pipelines and other midstream facilities, through to downstream refining and marketing and LNG-related activities.  This seminar would give an overview of government regulation and the contractual structure of upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas operations, and would generally create a context for the remaining topics in the seminar. Different contractual mechanisms governing these operations will be considered and compared.

About the speaker

Paul Deemer is a partner of Vinson & Elkins RLLP, an international law firm, and is based in the firm’s London office.  Paul’s practice is focused on international mergers and acquisitions and on the development and financing of international energy projects.  He has worked extensively on international oil and gas projects, including the acquisition and disposal of oil and gas assets and companies owning those assets, cross-border oil and gas pipeline projects, and LNG and electric power projects in Europe, Asia, the FSU, and the Middle East. He has represented developers as well as multilateral lenders on international energy project financings.  Paul has been based in the firm’s London, Moscow and Beijing offices since 1979, and has served as managing partner of each of those offices.  He was resident in the Beijing Office from 1997-1999 and from 2002 to 2013.