Graeme Clubley

Practice Areas

Graeme is a partner in the CMS Energy & Climate Change Team and is based in Aberdeen, Europe’s oil and gas capital.

Graeme specialises in upstream oil and gas transactions and projects (including, acquisitions/disposals of oil and gas assets/companies, oil/gas transportation projects and decommissioning security arrangements) and advises more generally on joint venture issues and contractual matters in the oil and gas sector.

Graeme is ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers, Legal 500 and is an Acritas Star – independently rated lawyer.

With more than 450 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 100 partners, the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Led from its centres of excellence such as London and Aberdeen, the practice works across 75 offices globally. Building on 40 years of experience advising on power, oil & gas and renewables through to energy disputes, emerging areas and Energy Transition, CMS is uniquely placed to ensure clients receive advice best suited to their commercial needs and to our collective future.

Work Highlights

Equinor on the $850m acquisition of Suncor Energy UK Limited.

Mitsui on the disposal of its interest in the Alba field to Ithaca.

ConocoPhillips on the $2.6bl disposal of its upstream business to Harbour Energy.

Oil Spill Response on various matters related to its incident response services.

TotalEnergies on its assumption of operatorship of the SEAL pipeline.

BP on various matters, including:

the acquisition of an interest in the Foinaven field from RockRose

the acquisition of an interest in the Seagull field from Repsol Sinopec

the reorganisation of its ETAP asset and the acquisition of various ETAP field/infrastructure interests from Shell, Esso and JX Nippon

the sale of interests in the Brae, Harding, Maclure and Devenick fields to TAQA for a total consideration of circa $1.2 billion.

North Sea Operational Gas Group (comprising TAQA, CNR, Enquest and Dana Petroleum) in connection with a collaborative project for the purchase and transportation of operations gas to fuel gas deficient platforms in the Northern North Sea. The project won the inaugural Oil and Gas Authority Maximising Economic Recovery Award at the 2015 Oil and Gas UK awards.

Shell as operator of a joint venture of multinational oil companies (Shell, BP, BG, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Total and Statoil) in connection with the Subsea Well Response Project. The project involved the development and procurement of capping and containment equipment to be used to respond to well control incidents worldwide.

18 month secondment to ConocoPhillips legal team.

Education