Day 1
Overview key drivers and openly models
Overview: Why Joint Ventures?
The Current State of Play in the Oil and Gas Industries
- Global supply and demand fundamentals
- Corporate drivers and strategies; where to go, what to do?
- Relationships with host governments
- Working with NOCs
- Contrasts of key drivers between IOCs and NOCs
The nexus of commercial contracts in oil and gas investments
Operating models:
- Client/ Lead Contractor
- Alliance
- Turnkey
Case study: Examples from Venezuela, U.S.A. and U.K. North Sea
Exercises: Selecting best options for marginal field developments from supplied facts and criteria
Day 2
Joint venture negotiation, selection and agreements
- Joint ventures operating principles
- Partner selection criteria
- Rules of successful joint ventures
- Negotiating and setting up joint ventures – key agreements and issues
- Field unitisation and unit agreements
The Joint Venture Agreement (JOAs)
The key agreement, a live document for joint venture administration
The key items and issues:
- Operator and non-operator rights and responsibilities
- Voting percentages and passmarks
- Sole risk and non-consent provisions
- Notices, defaults remedied and penalties
- Force majeure
- Governing law and arbitration
- Assignment
- Abandonment
Case studies
- Defaults, sole risk and non-consent
- The Macondo Joint Venture - a test case for wilful misconduct and joint and several liability
Exercises:
(1) Negotiating a joint venture agreement from the perspective of differing co- venturer objectives and
aspirations. Break-out teams of 3-4 people.
(2) Selecting joint venture partners
Day 3
Transition from Contract to Operations, Managing Joint Ventures, Influencing Partners and Managing Differences
- Managing joint venture activities
- Optimising communication -securing co-venturer "buy-in"
- TCM and OCM meetings; frequency and impact
- Budget-setting and expenditure phasing
- Dealing with non-cooperating co-venturers
- The internal farm-in, carried interests, net profits interests, royalties
- Project planning- the essential requirement
- Feasibility, F.E.E.D., F.I.D., EPC, Commissioning, First oil/gas production
- The Gantt chart
Case studies:
The Judy/Joanne Field development UKCS Agbami, Bonga deepwater fields Nigeria
- Sakhalin 2 LNG Project, Russia
- Ross/Blake project, U.K. North Sea
Exercises:
(1) Role-play OCM meeting for key development decision
(2) Gantt chart exercise Deepwater project, West Africa
Day 4
Cost control, Cash calls, Reports, Carried interests, Joint venture financing
- Cost control and management systems
- The JOA accounting procedure
- Cash calls, mechanisms/methodologies, notices late payments, defaults, remedies
- Carried interests
- Approval limits
- Currency and FX management
- Raising capital for projects
- Bank syndicated loans
- Mezzanine financing and venture capital funding
Case Studies:
Carried interests Prudhoe Bay Alaska, Brae fields , U.K. North Sea ELNG Project financing,
Small field financing, U.K. Reserve-based lending criteria
Exercises:
Project economics to justify financing JV marginal field financing and management
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Objectives
The objectives of the conference will be to
provide a practical understanding
• Provide an understanding of the tendering and contracting process
• Provide an understanding of techniques to avoid collusion or corruption during the tendering process
• Develop an understanding of ways to select bidders
• Show how to develop Invitations to Tender, and how to manage the tendering process
• Understand and manage the negotiation process
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Who should attend
• Tender or Bidding Managers
• Contract Administrators
• Contracting Unit Supervisors
• Project Engineers and Project Managers
• Business Audit Officers
• Contract Strategists
• General Managers involved in developing contracts or contract negotiation
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