Oil and Gas

Our full-service leading international oil and gas team understand the challenges and opportunities in the current energy market – whether global or local. We work across the oil and gas sector: including on M&A transactions, project development, financing, disputes, compliance, tax and IP. We bring international best practice to help you navigate the increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Our network of leading oil and gas lawyers are present across the globe, including in major energy hubs of London, Houston, the Middle East and Singapore. We have unique regulatory and sector expertise, with experts drawn from industry and government, and a long history in the sector. We use our knowledge of local energy markets and international best practice to bring you practical solutions wherever your business takes you.

We work across the value chain: from upstream exploration and production; pipelines (both domestic and cross border); LNG regas and liquefaction projects; shipping; refining and petrochemicals; sales and trading.

We understand how the energy transition is impacting the oil and gas sector. Our teams are actively working on major CCUS projects, integrating renewable energy into existing operations, hydrogen projects, and diversifying asset portfolios into lower carbon investments.

Our teams collaborate seamlessly to advise you on the issues most critical to your organization across a range of legal disciplines:

Mergers and acquisitions
Compliance, anti-corruption, human rights, and sanctions
Project finance and development
Intellectual Property
Antitrust and competition
Environment and health and safety
Marketing and trading
Tax
Litigation and disputes
Cybersecurity

Our capabilities at a glance

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Hear from our clients and industry leaders

Hogan Lovells' ability to understand and keep up with commercial aspects of arrangements always goes hand-in-hand with its legal expertise.”

Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas, Chambers UK Guide 2025

Hogan Lovells take the time to understand our business and our value points. The team are creative and view themselves as part of the business.”

Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation), Chambers USA Guide 2025

The team is particularly agile and capable of understanding the energy market dynamics extremely well."

Projects, energy and natural resources: Oil and gas, Legal 500 UK 2025

Hogan has extremely knowledgeable attorneys with substantial years in the field. They are also very practical with their advice.

Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation), Chambers USA Guide 2025

Exploration and Production

Liquefied Natural Gas LNG

Pipelines and Midstream Facilities

Refinery and Petrochemical Projects

Supply Marketing and Trading

Upstream oil and gas players look to Hogan Lovells to handle their most complex transactions, projects, litigation, regulatory, and intellectual property inquiries. Conventional or unconventional, onshore or off, we help you stay ahead of risks and spot opportunities. We fuse our knowledge of local markets and familiarity with international best practices to bring you practical solutions. Clients benefit from our strong technical background and long history in the E&P sector. Known for being “well versed in assisting oil majors with their investments and operations,” we are your ally for your upstream needs.

Our oil and gas team has a deep understanding of the international upstream market, and a strong track record in advising on upstream acquisitions, bidding rounds, and country entries for IOCs and NOCs.

We collaborate with clients on projects at all levels of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) value chain and project life cycle. From LNG liquefaction and regasification, to floating LNG and export projects, we have provided innovative solutions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. We solve your toughest legal problems by bringing the right people together to work with you as part of your team.

We help you mitigate risk across the value chain so that you can focus on doing business. The LNG group at Hogan Lovells supports the entire LNG project life cycle – from project inception and financing, through permitting, construction, and operational matters. We also address legal issues related to shipping, short-term LNG trading, long-term sales, and purchase agreements.

Pipelines, storage, gasification, transportation, and gas-gathering systems are essential parts of the oil and gas supply chain. Often cutting through multiple jurisdictions and impacted by various regulations, midstream operations face an array of legal challenges.

At Hogan Lovells, we understand your need to maximize investment while ensuring the most efficient route between production and distribution. We advise on acquisition, divestiture, and joint venture development; environmental and regulatory permitting; master limited partnerships (MLPs), tax, and other corporate matters; private equity; land access and eminent domain; project development, including project finance and EPC; operating and maintenance agreements; and dispute resolution.

Hogan Lovells works with oil and gas refiners, petrochemical companies, service companies, and project sponsors around the world. Our lawyers focus on transactional, finance, regulatory, intellectual property, and dispute resolution matters – so you can focus on running and growing your business.

We stay on top of the legal issues related to challenges and opportunities, such as evolving processing technology; changing environmental, health, and safety regulations; and innovative financing arrangements. We anticipate roadblocks before they materialize, keeping you ahead of the curve.

Hogan Lovells understands that oil and gas supply and trading can be a source of tremendous value to your bottom line. Whether you are an oil and gas company or a financial institution, we move quickly to keep you at the forefront of global markets.

Negotiating financial derivatives and high value structured transactions. Advising on financial regulations impacting supply and trading, physical energy trading, and credit support documents. Providing commodity-related dispute resolution. These services combined with our local knowledge of emerging markets can help bring your business wherever in the world it needs to go.

Key contacts

Ben Sulaiman

Partner

Ben Sulaiman

Partner

London

Niki Roberts

Partner

Niki Roberts

Partner

Houston

Alastair Young

Partner

Alastair Young

Partner

London

Andrew Shaw

Partner

Andrew Shaw

Partner

London

Stefan M. Krantz

Partner

Stefan M. Krantz

Partner

Washington, D.C.

Meet the Oil and Gas: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) team

Representative experience

Advising Statoil on Snøhvit LNG project, including LNG SPAs, EU competition law issues, LNG shipping pool, delayed start-up and force majeure, diversions, and price review.

Advising a major financial institution on financing and credit support for proposed LNG offtake from OK LNG project in Nigeria.

Advising JKC Australia LNG on the EPC contract for the onshore LNG facilities for the US$34bn Ichthys Project facilities to be built near Darwin, Australia.

Advising the developer of a proposed LNG export facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast on National Environmental Policy Act and resource impact issues.

Awards and recognitions

Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas client

Chambers UK

2025

Energy Regulation: Oil and Gas

Legal 500 US

2025

Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)

Chambers & Partners Global Guide

2018-2025

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