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ENERGY STUDIES lNSTJTUTE

Construction Claims in the Offshore Upstream Energy Sector

Date: 12 to 13 October 2015

Time: 9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Venue: Energy Studies Institute Conference Room

29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace

Block A, #1 0-01, Singapore 119620

Course Summary

This 2-day course is designed to introduce both lawyers and non-lawyers alike to the understanding of the legal issues that typically arise in Offshore Energy Construction Claims. This course is delivered by combining a substantive legal understanding together with a practitioner's perspective.

Who should attend?

• Contracts Directors and Managers

• Operations Directors and Managers

• Commercial Directors and Managers

• Managing Directors, Chief Executives and Senior Managers

• Sen ior Personnel in the construction of onshore and offshore oil and gas industry and energy projects

• Project Engineers and Project Managers

• In-house and External Counsel dealing with disputes in the Energy Sector

• Contracts Managers

• Contract Strategists

• General Managers involved in developing contracts or contract negotiation

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Course Objectives The objectives of the conference will be to provide a practical understanding

• The environment with in which Offshore Energy construction projects take place

• Types of contracts in use in Offshore Energy construction projects

• Issues which typically result in disputed claims.

• Dispute resolution structures

Seminar Directors

Steven Walker, Barrister Stone Chambers & Terra Firma Chambers

Steven Walker is a leading advocate, barrister and attorney, Steven is an international commercial lawyer with a specialisation in international arbitration, energy, commercial disputes, construction and engineering. He resides in South East Asia and works out of Singapore and London

with Stone Chambers & Terra Firma Chambers.

lain K Clark Solicitor Advocate Partner, Gilson Gray LLP

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lain K Clark is a Solicitor Advocate, Partner and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution at Gilson Gray LLP. He is a highly motivated and proactive specialist litigator with a wealth of practical experience and knowledge gained over more than 20 years.

As UK Winner of the ILO Client Choice Award 2013 for Arbitration and UK Winner of the ACQ Global Award 2013 for Leading Arbitration Lawyer of the Year, he is regularly instructed in relation to domestic and transnational disputes, advising on and conducting complex and high value arbitrations, litigations and mediations in Scotland, the UK and internationally - in the engineering, construction, oil & gas, renewables, property, finance and investment fields; and in other general commercial and private client disputes.

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David Byron Managing Director BCHW Global Limited

David Bryon started his career as a Mechanical Engineer working for Imperial Chemical Industries. His first commercial position was as a mechanical quantity surveyor working on the design and construction of jackets for North Sea oil and gas platforms. He then worked as a Senior Quantity Surveyor for

Aramco in Saudi Arabia on various onshore and offshore oil and gas projects. Upon returning from Saudi Arabia he worked as a Senior Quantity Surveyor on the construction of North Sea offshore oil production facilities. After that, David was Head of Contracts for Shell UK Exploration and Production.

Simon Sloane Partner ReedSmith

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Simon specialises in international arbitration and commercial dispute resolution, with particular expertise in the sectors of hotel & leisure, (re)insurance, mining, construction and upstream oil & gas (offshore energy).

He has worked on some of the largest and most complex business interruption insurance recovery claims and is recognised for his depth of

knowledge of supply chain exposure, "wide area damage" and "loss of attraction" issues.

He has been based in Singapore since 2006 and has direct experience of advising clients on their business issues in all the ASEAN countries. Before moving to Asia, Simon worked in

private practice in London. He has direct e:xperience of the insurance industry, gained during long-term secondments as in-house counsel in both the United States and the UK.

Simon has presented papers globally on (re)insurance, mining, construction and energy-related

topics and is a regular contributor to industry publications. He is a former committee member of the Insurance Law Association of Singapore.

Barry Stimpson Partner ReedSmith

Barry has more than 20 years' experience handling shipping, international trade, offshore energy and construction matters. He has been based in the Far East since 1999 and has worked in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney. He was a founding partner of Reed Smith's Singapore office when it was established in 2012.

Barry's practice covers both advisory and disputes work in the shipping, commodities, upstream oil and gas (offshore energy), construction, mining, insurance and telecommunications sectors. He has been recognised for his work in the shipping, commodities and offshore energy sectors by the major legal directories and is ranked as one of the leading shipping lawyers in Singapore.

His shipping practice covers dry bulk and tanker charterparties, long term contracts of affreightment, bills of lading , cargo claims, ship arrest, casualties, ship sale and purchase and shipbuilding. In the commodities sector, he has advised on and arbitrated disputes arising out of trading contracts for most soft commodities (including palm oil, grains, cotton, cocoa and sugar). Importantly for the Asia Pacific region, he has extensive experience of trading and storage contracts for oil, coal and ore.

In the offshore energy sector, he advises clients on ship sale/purchase contracts, newbuilding and conversion contracts (for rigs, FPSOs, pipe-laying vessels , tailpipe vessels and flotels) , EPIC contracts, exploration/seismic-survey contracts and offshore support and supply vessel chartering contracts. He has also handled several complex and high-value arbitrations relating to the design, construction and chartering of offshore vessels.

. . As counsel in international arbitration, Barry has handled arbitrations in London, Hong Kong and Singapore under the ICC, SIAC, LCIA, LMAA, SCMA, HKIAC, GAFTA, FOSFA and the I~A. In 2012, he became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He also has extensive experience of court proceedings in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia .

Course Programme

Day 1

08:45- 09:15

09:30 - 10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-13:00

13:00-14:00

14:00 -15:30

15:30 - 15:45

15:45 - 17:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Nature of construction in offshore Energy Construction projects

•Construction

•Maintenance

•Refit/Refurbishment

•Decommissioning

•Upstream offshore environment

•Construction and supply chain issues

•Regional law and operating issues

Refreshment break

Typical areas of dispute

•Design

•Variations

Lunch break

Typical areas of dispute (continued)

•Delays

•Defects

•Quantum Meruit claims

Refreshment break

Important issues to consider in dispute

•Force Majeure clauses

•Indemnity clauses

Day2

09:00 - 10:45

10:45 - 11 :00

11 :00 - 13:00

13:00 -14:00

14:00-15:45

15:45 - 16:00

16:00 -17:00

1700-1730

Other important issues to consider in dispute (continue)

•Consequential Loss clauses

•Liquidated Damages clauses

• Termination/Specific Performance

Refreshment break

Marine issues

•Supplytime Charterparties

•Heavylift Cargo Contracts

Lunch break

Insurance and risk transfer issues

•P& I

•WELCAR

Refreshment break

Dispute Resolution clauses

•Adjudication

•Mediation

•Arbitration

•Litigation

Feedback & Closing Remarks

End of Programme

For further enquiries and information, please contact Ms Jan Lui at +65 6516 2000 or email to seminars@esi

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The ESI Professional Training Seminar Programme

Topic: Construction Claims in the Offshore Upstream Energy Sector

Date: 12- 13 October 2015

NUS N~lional University o f Singapore

Venue: Energy Studies Institute, 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Block A #10-01, Singapore 119620

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