Our LNG expert witness team
Gas and LNG disputes require more than analysis. They require a deep understanding of how contracts, markets, assets, shipping, trading and LNG portfolios work in practice. Gas Strategies provides independent expert witness, expert determination and dispute advisory support across the international gas and LNG industry. Our experts combine rigorous commercial, economic and technical analysis with decades of direct industry experience, including operating assets, negotiating long-term contracts, managing LNG portfolios and trading LNG and natural gas.
Disputes we support
Price reviews and price re-openers
Independent market, pricing and valuation evidence for long-term gas and LNG contract price reviews
Force majeure
Operational, commercial and market evidence on causation, performance, mitigation and economic consequences
Failure to deliver or take
Analysis of operational and contractual performance, mitigation, replacement transactions, portfolio impacts and resulting economic loss
LNG shipping and cargo disputes
Commercial and operational expertise addressing cargo delivery, shipping constraints and their portfolio and market consequences
LNG plant performance
Operational issues where equipment performance or actions of the operator impacts the delivery or receipt of cargoes from liquefaction or regassification facilities
Pipeline and natural gas disputes
Gas supply and pipeline transport contract disputes. Market pricing of natural gas, transportation capacity issues
Experienced practitioners. Independent expert insight.
Gas Strategies’ experts combine experience of complex LNG and gas disputes with senior practitioner backgrounds across operations, contracting, trading, portfolio management, valuation and commercial strategy. Our experts bring real industry experience to the questions at the center of a dispute, helping counsel and tribunals understand not only what happened, what would reasonably have been expected in practice, and assessing the quantum of loss involved.
| If the dispute principally concerns: | Contact |
|---|---|
| Contracts, pricing, commercial economics or infrastructure | Warwick Cernoch |
| Upstream resource evaluation, upstream economics and contracts | David Dalton |
| Gas and LNG sales and tolling contracts, Gas and LNG pricing, NGL contractual arrangements | Dr. David J Drury |
| Plant performance, commissioning, operations, safety or technical causation | Neal Moxon |
| Trading, portfolios, market practice, optimisation decisions, commercial operations or pricing behaviour | Michael Sellers |
How we support clients and counsel
From early case assessment through independent expert evidence, expert reports, oral testimony and expert determination, we bring together the industry, commercial, technical and analytical expertise required for complex gas and LNG disputes. From initial instruction through written reports and oral evidence for tribunals and courts.