Author: Lucy Greenwood*
Published: October 2020
Description: This article considers the life cycle of a large infrastructure dispute in the oil and gas industry and provides advice on each of the three main stages of a dispute. It discusses the types of dispute resolution clauses that are applicable to major energy projects and considers how to get the dispute resolution clause right. It then looks at the issues involved in managing a major energy arbitration, including the difficulties of arbitrator selection. Finally, it examines the options open to a party at the end of a dispute, after the arbitral award has been rendered.
*Chartered Arbitrator, qualified in England and Wales and Texas www.greenwoodarbitration.com. The author has over twenty years of experience in energy-related disputes, as counsel and arbitrator and hears disputes under English and Texas law.