Oil & Gas - Watson, Farley & Williams

• Advising a UK subsidiary of a US energy company on the sale of a package of oil
and gas production and exploration assets in the UK North Sea
• Advising on the proposed sale of US and UK oil field equipment supply companies
• Advising a leading Brazilian engineering and construction company Odebrecht
S.A. in relation to the sale of Odebrecht Servicos de Oleo e Gas Ltd, including its
Brazilian oil exploration and production interests, to Enterprise Oil Plc for gross
consideration of US$153m
• Advising Coflexip Stena Offshore Ltd on the US$67.5m sale of its Subsea Well
Operations business to Well Ops (UK) Ltd, a subsidiary of Caldive
• Advising Intec Engineering (UK) Ltd on the purchase of the FUEL subsea
engineering business from Smit Land & Marine Engineering Ltd
• Advising Petroleum Geo-Services ASA on merger control issues in the UK and
elsewhere in Europe, in relation to its proposed merger with Veritas, including
notifying the transaction and obtaining clearance from the UK Office of Fair
Trading (OFT)
• Advising Bergesen d.y. ASA, Navion ASA and Advanced Production Systems DA
on the US$188m sale of the Pierce Field FPSO assets, including Pierce
Production Company Limited, to Bluewater Group
• Advising Black Rock Oil & Gas Plc (listed on AIM) on its acquisition of an oil
exploration licence from Otto Oil Pty Ltd and another one from Cadex Petroleum
Pty Ltd
• Advising Global Natural Energy plc (listed on the Official List) on its acquisition of
an initial 19.9% interest (with an option to acquire a further 40.1% interest) in a
new UK gas distribution group formed by the merger of Quantum Energy Group
Limited, Fortum Energy Plus Limited and Saracen Gas Limited
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