Oil and Gas

Miranda has long-standing experience in the international oil and gas industry. Since the very early days of the Firm, oil and gas has been vital to our practice. Through advising in hundreds of transactions, projects and other oil and gas developments, Miranda has amassed a wealth of knowledge in this industry that is unsurpassed by any other firm in the jurisdictions we cover. The breadth of our practice and our experience with a diversity of jurisdictions and oil and gas companies enables us to provide clients with the most sound and effective advice and representation. Our client base includes more than 80 oil and gas producers and oilfield contractors worldwide, as well as various sovereign nations.

 

The oil and gas lawyers at Miranda draw on both their own highly developed experience and the knowledge of their colleagues from other practices to provide our clients with unusually broad service and advice. We regularly assemble teams of lawyers from different practices tailored to the particular needs of clients in the most challenging and sophisticated transactions and projects. In addition to their strong technical capabilities, the oil and gas lawyers at Miranda have hands on experience in most aspects of the day-to-day operational issues faced by petroleum exploration and production companies, LNG producers, refiners, marketers, services companies, amongst others. Some of our practitioners are regularly invited to speak at industry conferences and seminars, in addition to providing commentary in the general media and in industry publications.

 

Through our membership in the leading oil sector associations we have also been actively engaged in the preparation of a number of important model contracts used worldwide.

Our Experience
  • Acquisitions and divestitures
  • Farmouts/Farmins
  • Unitisation and joint development
  • Securing exploration and production concessions and licenses
  • Upstream projects (including oil rigs, production platforms and FPSOs)
  • Midstream and Downstream projects (including construction of refineries and pipelines, LNG Plants, service stations, storage facilities, etc.)
  • Pipeline and other infrastructures construction and financing
  • Development of regulatory framework and legislation
  • Upstream and services contract negotiations
  • Oil and gas-related maritime boundary disputes
  • Oil and gas-related litigation
  • Concession, risk services, and production sharing contracts
  • Joint Venture Agreements
  • Joint Operating Agreements
  • Unitisation Agreements
  • Prospecting Licenses
  • Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts
  • Facilities usage agreements
  • Drilling and other development contracts
  • Gas Sales Agreements
  • Long-term supply contracts and LNG Sales and Purchase Agreements
  • Farmout Agreements
  • Oilfield Services Agreements
Contacts
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Equatorial Guinea New Licensing Round
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Angola's Petroleum Reform
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Business Opportunities in Angola's Refining Sector
Tânia Cascais and Nuria Brinkmann in PETROLEUM AFRICA
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The Opening Up of a New Sector: Investment Opportunities in Angola’s Downstream
Ricardo Alves Silva and Sara Frazão in PETROLEUM AFRICA
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Angola's Petroleum Regulatory Reform - The Dawn of a New Age?
Ricardo Alves Silva and Sara Frazão in ADVISOR (AIPN)
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Upstream Developments in the Republic of the Congo: Full Speed Ahead Soon?
Nuno Marques Antunes in PETROLEUM AFRICA
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Getting ready to negotiate new upstream concessions
Diogo Xavier da Cunha in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2016.03.01
Winds of Change in the Angolan Upstream Regulatory Model
Ricardo Alves Silva and Sara Frazão in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2015.12.01
Investing in Gabon: Grabbing the Opportunity
Catarina Cunha e Távora and Sara Frazão in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2015.11.01
The Long-Awaited New Petroleum Law
Catarina Cunha e Távora and Filipa Monteiro in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2015.10.01
Time to shift gears?
Ricardo Alves Silva and Sara Frazão in PETROLEUM AFRICA
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Work Force Management and Flexibility in an Oil Price Slump: An Africa Tale
Ricardo Alves Silva in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2015.06.01
Côte d'Ivoire - Offshore potential: opportunities and legal framework
Catarina Cunha e Távora and Filipa Monteiro in INTERNATIONAL ENERGY LAW REVIEW
2015.06.01
Shale Gas - All that glitters is not gold
Agostinho Pereira de Miranda in DRAFT ANGOLA
2015.04.01
Côte D’Ivoire – A Rising Oil & Gas Star in West Africa
Catarina Cunha e Távora and Filipa Monteiro in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2015.04.01
Indigenous Content – Turning the Oil Curse into a Blessing
Ricardo Alves Silva and Sara Frazão in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2015.03.01
Angola: Angolan Tax Reform
Ana Pinelas Pinto and Susana Barahona Ferreira in INTERNATIONAL ENERGY LAW REVIEW
2015.03.01
Mozambique Monetizing the Nation’s Wealth
Nuno Cabeçadas in PETROLEUM AFRICA
2015.01.19 | Portuguese Version Only
An existencial threat to OPEC
Agostinho Pereira de Miranda in PÚBLICO