Authors: Peter Roberts

• ISBN: 9780414131859
• Published: November 2025
• Format: Hardback
• Language: English
• Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd

Description:

This 8th edition of Gas and LNG Sales and Transportation Agreements: Principles and Practice is a practical and comprehensive guide to structuring, drafting and interpreting contracts for the sale, shipping and transportation of natural gas and LNG. Written from the perspective of English law but informed by international practice, it explains how to design robust projects while managing legal, commercial and regulatory risk across the gas value chain.

Key Features:

– Detailed, hands-on guidance on negotiating gas and LNG trading, shipping and transportation contracts.
– Clause-by-clause commentary on typical provisions, including quality, delivery, liabilities, limitation of liability, force majeure and dispute resolution.
– Three new chapters on LNG trading platforms, MSA terms and sales contracts for unconventional gas.
– Precedent gas sales and transportation agreements, plus additional clause examples to adapt in practice.
– In-depth treatment of price, price review mechanisms, take-or-pay structures, collateral support and ship-or-pay arrangements.
– Analysis of gas in the energy transition, climate change concerns and the move towards cleaner energy sources.

Coverage:

The book is organised in five main parts: general principles of gas projects and storage; key provisions in gas sales contracts; gas transportation structures and terms; LNG sales and shipping, including charter parties; and common components such as force majeure, liability, third-party involvement, transfers, termination and dispute resolution. Appendices provide pro forma memoranda of understanding, gas sales and transportation agreements, and additional provisions that can be incorporated into bespoke contracts.

About the Authors:

Peter Roberts is an experienced energy lawyer with extensive practice in structuring and negotiating gas and LNG projects worldwide. Drawing on decades of work with energy companies, lenders, traders and governments, he offers practical insight into how commercial objectives are translated into enforceable contract language and how disputes can be avoided or managed effectively.

Table of Contents:

General principles of gas projects, storage and unconventional gas; project structures and contract forms; competition law and gas in the energy transition; sales contract terms (parties, term, delivery, quantities, reserves, price and price review, collateral support, take-or-pay, nominations, failures and remedies); gas transportation (pipeline structures, commingling, allocation, capacity and tariffs); LNG sales and transportation (LNG project structures, sales contract content, shipping issues and charter parties); and common components such as force majeure, liability, third-party involvement, transfers, termination, dispute resolution and other provisions. Appendices include model agreements and additional clauses for drafting.

Why buy this book?

For lawyers, in-house counsel and commercial teams working in the gas and LNG sector, this book is a reference that can be used daily when drafting or reviewing contracts. It helps you understand how key clauses work in practice, anticipate negotiation points, document complex pricing and volume structures and align your contracts with evolving market, regulatory and energy-transition trends. For university and professional libraries, it is an essential resource for advanced study of energy and natural resources law.

Keywords:

gas contracts, LNG contracts, gas transportation, LNG shipping, take-or-pay, ship-or-pay, price review, energy transition, energy and natural resources law, pipeline tariffs, charter parties, force majeure, dispute resolution, collateral support

Target Audience:

energy lawyers, natural resources lawyers, in-house counsel, commercial managers, contract managers, project finance professionals, regulators, policy makers, arbitrators, university libraries, law school libraries, energy company libraries

Genre:

Energy and Natural Resources Law, Oil and Gas Law, Commercial Contracts, International Trade Law

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