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About Ben
Ben is an energy lawyer with a particular focus on the oil and gas sector. He has advised clients on the development, sale, purchase and financing of oil and gas assets across the value chain, from wellhead to market. Ben has particular experience in relation to African transactions, having advised on deals in more than 25 jurisdictions across the continent.
Experience
Recent Notable Matters
Savannah Energy PLC — all-share acquisition of Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Nigeria Limited, the holder of a 49 percent participating interest in the Stubb Creek Field, Nigeria
Impact Oil & Gas Ltd — farmout of its interests in Blocks 2912 and 2913B offshore Namibia, which contain the Venus discovery, to TotalEnergies EP Namibia B.V.
Savannah Energy PLC — $407 million acquisition of ExxonMobil's entire interest in the Doba oil fields in Chad and its stake in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline
Savannah Energy PLC — sale and purchase agreement with PETRONAS International Corporation Limited to acquire its interest in three onshore blocks in South Sudan for up to $1.25 billion
Hillwood International Energy, LP — acquisition of Kerogen Investments No. 7 Limited's interest in HKN Energy, Ltd, the owner of a 62 percent operated interest in the Sarsang PSC in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and on its ongoing operations in-country
Storegga Ltd — foundation equity financing with Macquarie and subsequent equity financings with GIC, Mitsui, Macquarie, M&G and SNAM; acquisition of Pale Blue Dot Energy, the lead developer of the Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage Project at the St Fergus Gas Terminal in the UK; advising on the growth of its DAC business
Impact Oil & Gas Ltd — on its strategic options for the Venus discovery in Namibia; in South Africa on its farm-down of Tugela South block to Shell and farm-in to Area 2; the acquisition of upstream blocks in Gabon, Namibia, the Senegal-Guinea Bissau AGC; the farm-down of the AGC block to CNOOC and the Namibia block to Total
Hunt Oil Company — on matters across its international oil and gas portfolio, including in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia and Peru
Gran Tierra Energy Inc. — up to $150 million prepayment facility in Colombia with Trafigura as lender and crude oil offtaker
Genel Energy plc — in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on its farm-in to the Chevron operated Sarta and Qara Dagh blocks, the development and commercialization of its Miran and Bina Bawi gas discoveries for export to Turkey, the acquisition of OMV's interest in the Bina Bawi Block, the farm-down of the Chia Surkh block, crude transportation and marketing arrangements
Trafigura — on the redevelopment and financing of the Berbera oil terminal in Somaliland
Savannah Petroleum plc — material aspects of its takeover of the Seven Energy Nigerian business, including relating to the re-organisation of the Uquo onshore gas field and the Accugas gas processing facility and the re-listing of its shares on the stock exchange; on its gas sales agreements; on its exploration assets in Niger; on the divestment of its interest in Lekoil Cayman
Anglo Tunisian Oil & Gas Limited — acquisition of Medco Tunisia, a seven asset upstream oil and gas business in Tunisia, including the associated acquisition financing from Trafigura
Assala Energy UK Limited — on its long term crude sales agreement in Gabon
Ophir Energy plc — $2 billion floating LNG project offshore Equatorial Guinea, including host government arrangements, LNG sales agreements, chartering agreements, joint venture arrangements, project financing and construction
Anglo African Oil and Gas plc — Tilapia field operations in the Republic of Congo
Trident Energy Management Limited — acquisition financing to acquire, in partnership with Kosmos, Hess' business in Equatorial Guinea
GAIL (India) — LNG cargo swap transactions around the globe
Chevron — exit from Mauritania