Emma Nierinck

Dec 14, 2023 | lexology.com | Phillip Ashley |John Geddes |Emma Nierinck |David Rutherford

In RSM Production Corporation v Gaz du Cameroun SA [2023] EWHC 2820 (Comm), the English High Court considered the relationship between arbitration clauses in a production sharing contract (or participation agreement), joint operating agreement and settlement agreement (straddling both). The outcome illustrates the benefit of giving careful consideration to the interplay between dispute resolution provisions in drafting interrelated upstream contracts.