Through our market-leading work in renewable energy, electric vehicles and energy storage, our energy lawyers are leading the transition to a low-carbon economy. However, we recognise the important transitional role to be played by conventional energy sources – and natural gas in particular – in helping to meet our requirements for security of electricity supply and heating during this transition.
We guide and advise our clients through the process of developing, financing and operating a wide range of onshore energy projects, from licensing through to decommissioning. Throughout the business lifecycle, our team provides day-to-day support and advice on various aspects of oil and gas law.
Our oil and gas lawyers can call upon support from colleagues across the firm in the full range of specialisms such as power trading, connection arrangements, real estate, employment, litigation, intellectual property, construction, environmental and health and safety. Our regulatory experts also have vast practical experience of helping clients to understand and benefit from the mechanisms incentivising baseload and flexible gas-fired power projects in the current market, in order to ensure that the UK’s energy security requirements, as well as its climate change targets, are met.
We are well placed to assist our clients to capitalise on opportunities in emerging markets, such as the development of flexible gas peaking projects, the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations and carbon capture and storage.
Areas of focus
Our oil and gas law expertise includes the following:
- Planning and consenting advice for power generation and gas production facilities
- Advising on gas and electricity connection arrangements and network issues
- Advising on the Capacity Market, Route to Market Agreements and balancing services contracts
- Regulatory and contractual matters relating to the decommissioning of offshore and onshore installations and pipelines
- Construction, O&M, and other services contracts relating to energy infrastructure, using LOGIC, FIDIC and other common industry forms
- Port services agreements
- Environmental compliance and Health and Safety investigations and incident response
- Assistance with regulatory approvals and permits (including offshore licensing, COMAH and environmental permitting)
- Dispute resolution
- Share and asset acquisitions and disposals
- Advising on the financing of conventional energy infrastructure
- Securing land rights for the development of conventional energy projects and utilities, including storage facilities and infrastructure related to carbon capture and storage.