Decarbonizing Oil and Gas Operations - Let's Look at the Contracts

Recorded On: 09/15/2022

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Matt Gingell, General Counsel, Oxygen House; Chair, The Chancery Lane Project
Yuliya Marcer, Senior Counsel, BP; former VP Model Contracts, AIEN
Kenyon Weaver, Senior Counsel, Energy Transition, U.S. Department of Commerce
Moderator: Andrea Forabosco, Shell International BV; Energy Transition Officer, IBA Oil and Gas Committee

This webinar will discuss the efforts of the oil and gas industry to deliver model clauses and standard contractual provisions it can rely on to implement its operational GHG emissions reductions and decarbonization goals. These efforts aim to enable an energy transition of the sector that is timely, just, sustainable and efficient.

The webinar will highlight ongoing initiatives in this area and particularly the Chancery Lane Project and the recently launched joint project between the Association of International Energy Negotiators and the International Bar Association’s Oil and Gas Law Committee to develop Energy Transition Model Clauses.


Matt Gingell

General Counsel, Oxygen House; Chair, The Chancery Lane Project

Matt Gingell is the General Counsel of Oxygen House Group and the founder of the Chancery Lane Project. Matthew has been instrumental in establishing a new doctrine of Climate Aligned Contracting: ground level commercial contracts creating global environmental outcomes. He is widely recognised as an innovator who is helping shape the legal profession as a force for good. A lawyer, but not as you know it.

Yuliya Marcer

Senior Counsel, BP; former VP Model Contracts, AIEN

Yuliya Marcer is Senior Counsel with BP plc in Houston providing legal support to BP’s global Integrated Gas & Power business and Global Projects Organisation in connection with developing LNG to power projects and major upstream projects worldwide, including LNG and deepwater projects in Angola, Australia, Indonesia and other countries. Before coming to BP, Yuliya provided legal support to the Eastern Hemisphere operations of Nabors Drilling, the world’s largest onshore drilling company, exploration and new ventures at Apache Corporation, and practiced in the area of international business transactions at Vinson & Elkins LLP. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center and her undergraduate degree from Moscow State Linguistic University. Yuliya is the AIPN U.S. Regional Director and Past Chair of the International Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.

Kenyon Weaver

Senior Counsel, Energy Transition, U.S. Department of Commerce

Kenyon S. Weaver is a Senior Counsel with the Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he works on CLDP’s energy initiatives.

Prior to joining CLDP, Mr. Weaver was an attorney in the Almaty, Kazakhstan, and Washington, D.C. offices of the law firm of Dentons, where he worked on cross-border transactions in energy and natural resources, economic sanctions, and trade and corporate issues.

Mr. Weaver received his J.D. in 2008 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he studied for a semester at Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China.  He holds a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University.  Prior to law school, Mr. Weaver served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkmenistan.

​Andrea Forabosco

Shell International BV; Energy Transition Officer, IBA Oil and Gas Committee

Andrea Forabosco is a construction lawyer and ESG/ethics and compliance professional with over 20 years’ expertise supporting large organizations and energy projects in European and Middle East regions, with strong focus on GHG management, climate change and energy transition, industry-wide sustainability and supply chain development. Andrea has worked and travelled widely throughout Europe, North Africa and the Arabian Gulf, developing a passion for the Mediterranean Sea as a crossroad of cultures and people and a desire to contribute to the preservation of its rich social / eco-systems.

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