What is a gas and LNG independent expert?
An LNG independent expert is a senior industry practitioner appointed by the parties or a tribunal to give impartial opinion on the technical, commercial and economic questions at the heart of a gas or LNG dispute: price reviews, force majeure, take-or-pay, quantum and contract performance. As both LNG independent expert and expert witness, Gas Strategies gives counsel and tribunals an opinion grounded in real operating and trading experience, not theory.
Cutting through complexity
We turn process into progress, distilling volumes of information and cutting to the issues that really matter to give you a clear-eyed view of what is at stake: the circumstances, the causes and the value in play. We convert that into well founded negotiation advice, independent expert opinion and expert witness testimony that stands up to scrutiny.
Credibility built on experience
Our credibility with clients, legal counsel and tribunal panels comes from the real world experience of our team. As senior, seasoned industry practitioners, they have built careers successfully managing complex contracts and resolving disputes, and giving expert witness evidence in international arbitration and expert determination.
Collectively, our team has worked in every aspect of the industry, from project structuring, upstream and liquefaction operations to commercial negotiation, pipeline, shipping, trading, portfolio management and hedging, through to export, import and regasification. We use that experience, and a detailed understanding of the current LNG market, to be the credible, independent voice that moves disputes forward.
Advice from every angle
Each dispute has its own drivers, demanding specific specialism. Our multi-disciplinary team brings that breadth alongside specialist depth, as traders, economists, financiers, accountants, analysts, consultants, geologists, and process and chemical engineers.
With high-end energy experience, we understand the events that lead to a dispute and the context surrounding it. Our work as LNG independent experts has spanned New York, London, Madrid, Tokyo and Singapore. We work worldwide.
When do you need an LNG expert witness?
You need an LNG expert witness when a gas or LNG dispute turns on how the market actually works: price review arbitration, force majeure and market disruption, failure to deliver, take-or-pay and the quantum of damages. Our LNG expert witnesses translate complex commercial and technical realities into clear, defensible evidence a tribunal can rely on, and hold that evidence under cross-examination.
The disputes we help resolve
We act as LNG independent expert and expert witness across the disputes that define the sector:
- Gas and LNG price reviews and price re-openers
- Force majeure and market disruption
- Failure to deliver and failure to take (take-or-pay)
- Quantum and damages
- Contract interpretation and expert determination
How we work with you, from instruction to hearing
We work with clients and counsel from start to finish, across every stage of the independent expert and expert witness process:
Assessing case strength from the perspective of all parties
- Core issue understanding
- Case definition
- Consideration of renegotiations or settlements
Arbitration process
- Document review, request and search
- Economic models and damages calculations
- Written expert witness reports based on counsel instruction
- Meetings with opposing experts
Arbitration hearing
- Hearing presentations
- Independent expert oral evidence and cross-examination
- Development of the cross-examination approach