Oil & Gas

Key Services

Nigeria’s oil and gas industry is highly regulated, capital-intensive, and contract driven. Our Oil & Gas practice provides end-to-end legal advisory for upstream, midstream and downstream operations, combining deep industry experience with commercial insight.

• Upstream & Transactions: Advisory on licensing rounds, Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) compliance, marginal field acquisitions, farm-in/farm-out arrangements, joint ventures (JV), production sharing contracts (PSC), and asset divestments.
• Oilfield Services & Contracting: Drafting, review and negotiation of service contracts, drilling contracts, EPC/EPCI contracts, technical service agreements, and model service contracts for IOCs and indigenous service companies, including risk allocation.
• Regulatory, Local Content & Compliance: Advisory on NUPRC, NMDPRA, and NCDMB (Nigerian Content) compliance, permits, licenses, and approvals.
• Midstream & Downstream: Advisory on crude evacuation, transportation, storage, gas commercialization, processing and supply agreements, and petroleum products trading.
• Dispute Resolution: Pre-litigation advisory, negotiation and representation in oil and gas disputes, including JV accounting disputes, cash-call defaults, service contract claims, and regulatory sanctions.