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English Legal System

Civil and Criminal Liability

Occupier’s Liability and Defective Premises

Employer’s Liability for Health and Safety

The Search For Gas

a)	The Continental Shelf: Rules of International Law Of The Sea
	General Principles
	Delimitation of the Continental Shelf

b)	Decommissioning Of The Offshore Installations
	The 1989 IMO Guidelines and Standards
	International Dumping Agreements
	The 1991 Guideline

c)	The Permission of the State
	Licences under UK Law
	Production-sharing contracts (PSCs)
	Risk-service contracts

d)	The Legal Framework of Gas Participation
	Forms of Participation:
	A Limited Liability Company
	Partnership
	Agreement
	Merger & acquisition
	Alliances

e)	The Changing Structure of the UK Gas Industry

Offshore and Field Development Agreements

1.	Joint Operation Agreement (JOA)
	The operator
	The operating Committee
	Programme of work and budget
	The Sole risk and non-consent clause
	Assignment
	The Pre-emption
	Decommissioning
	English Law and Statutory
	Decommissioning agreements
	Safety Cases

2.	Farm-out Agreements
	The Farm-out concept
	Terms of the Agreement
	The Interests to be assigned
	The work to be carried out by the Farmee

3.	Unitisation and Unit Operating Agreements
	Pre-unitisation agreement
	The Terms of the unitisation Unit

4.	Drilling Contacts

Gas Finance

1.	General Consideration
	Commercial and merchant banks
	International finance Institutions

2.	Energy Charter
	The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)
	Trade
	Transit
	Investment

3.	Instruments of Finance
	Loans
	Equity
	Project financing
	Leases
	Leveraged Leases

4.	Financial Risks and Securities
	Risks
	Securities
	EBRD Model Law on Secured Transactions

5.	Special Types of Finance
	Ship Finance
	Pipeline Finance
	The ‘throughput’ agreement

Sale of Gas – Depletion and Supply Contracts

1.	LNG Sale Dedicated to a certain Plant
	Negotiations
	Characteristics

2.	Long Term Contracts
	Qualities
	Quantities
	Measurements and test
	Title and risk
	Failure to supply or take gas
	The Price
	Force Majeure
	Hardship
	Arbitration
	Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)

3.	Short term contracts
	The Short Term Flat NBP Trading Terms and Conditions 1997

The Carriage of Gas by Ships

1.	The Carriage of LNG
	An outline of LNG contract of Carriage

2.	The carriage of LPG
	LPG voyage charter-parties
	LPG time charter-parties

10. The Conveyance of Gas by Pipeline

1.	Definition, capacity and categories
	Access to the Pipeline
	Corningled gas
	Shareholdings and capacity holdings

2.	Pipeline Law
	International rules on pipelines
	A brief outline of U.S law
	English Law on Pipeline
	The Network code

3.	Pipeline Contracts
	Operation agreements – balancing
	Construction contracts dredging Contracts
	Welding and Seafloor trenching
	Tariff Agreements
	Service Contracts

Allocation of Risk Safety and Liability Rules

Pipeline Risks

1.	Allocation of Risks
	Service Contracts
	Drilling and Production risks
	Storage risks
	Transport risks

2.	Safety Measures
	The International Gas carrier (IGO) code
	The Merchant Shipping (Gas Carrier) Regulations, 1994
	The International Safety Management (ISM) Code
	The International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IDMG) Code
	The Merchant Shipping (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1986
	The Dangerous substances in Harbour Areas Regulations 1987
	The Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes (BC) Code

3.	Liability Rules
	Liability under English Law
	Trespass and Nuisance
	The rule in Rylands v Fletcher
	The Cambridge Water Case
	Negligence
	Concurrent liability in Tort and Contract
	Liability under Common Law
	Liability under Environmental Law
	The Convention on Hazardous and Noxious Substances (HNS) 1996
	The development of environmental Rules
	The polluter pays principle
	State responsibility

Insurance

1.	General Considerations
	Main features of offshore activities
	Risk Management

2.	Offshore Insurance Covers
	Insurance Covers during the construction phrase
	Insurance cover during the operational phrase
	Pipeline Insurance

3.	Insurance of Gas carried by Ship
	Insurance of gas
	Insurance of Ship

4.	Other Insurance Covers
	Protection and Indemnity (P&I) cover
	War and related risk insurance
	Business Interruption
	Excess Insurance

5.	Reinsurance
	Facultative
	Open Cover
	Treaty

Environmental Protection

Discrimination and Equal Opportunities

Confidentiality

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

European Convention on Human Rights

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Course name and number:	TAC-DC-LS-011 - Diploma in Gas Law
Course Fee:	£525
Entry Requirements:	Students MUST be able to cope with advanced studies.
Mode of Study:	Distance Learning
Start Date:	Start at anytime
Duration:	4 - 7months or more