backHOUSTON, June 6, 2017 — King & Spalding is pleased to announce the publication of a comprehensive guide to drafting, designing and interpreting upstream government petroleum contracts.
The book, titled, “Upstream Government Petroleum Contracts: A Practitioner’s Guide to Concessions, Production Sharing Contracts, and Risk Service Agreements,” was written through the collaborative efforts of multiple King & Spalding international oil and gas practitioners.
The guide offers practitioners and academics:
- detailed explanations and hundreds of examples of sample provisions—spanning the entire globe—of host-government granting instruments that are negotiated in these complicated transactions;
- deep analysis of the risks and considerations for host governments and contractors;
- 24 chapters of highly relevant subject matter in an easy-to-reference format; and
- updated subject materials, including complications with unconventional resource operations and anticorruption legislation.
“This book analyzes international upstream government contracts in a way that weaves the context of negotiations—theoretical, historical, political—with examples based on actual contracts, to provide a meaningful training experience for negotiators,” said Ken Culotta, head of King & Spalding’s Global Transactions group. “This work is a product of our group’s collective experience and deep knowledge of this niche area.”
The contributing King & Spalding editors are:
Houston
- John Bowman
- Kenneth Culotta
- Vera De Brito de Gyarfas
- Archie Fallon
- Evan Korngold
- Kathy Marietta
- Rodrigo Morales
- Jason Nasra
- Adrian Talamantes
- Nathaniel Thomas
- Philip Weems
London
- Susanna Beard
- Nina Howell
- Garry Pegg
Moscow
- Jennifer Josefson
Singapore
- Ji Nin Loh
- Sylvia Taslim
- Merrick White
Tokyo
- Ray Witt
“Upstream Government Petroleum Contracts: A Practitioner’s Guide to Concessions, Production Sharing Contracts, and Risk Service Agreements” is available on the Juris Publishing website as well as on Amazon.
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