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Index
Index
- Acceleration 19.24–25
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Acceptance and delivery
10.6–12
- EPC project 10.4
- illustrations of defects 10.59–73
- immaterial defects 10.47–52
- minor or insubstantial defects 10.26–36
- multiple defects 10.37–46
- offshore construction contract 10.3
- place and time 10.122
- place of
- sea trials programme 10.17–25
- technical acceptance 10.15–16
- termination following rejection 10.53–58
- test procedures 10.74–78
- tests 10.13
- Acceptance certificates 10.88
- Acceptance period 10.86–87
- Actual costs approach B.58
- AFE procedure 5.141–142
- Affirmation 13.47–56
- Ambiguous wording 4.25–34
- Anchor Handling Towing Supply vessels (AHTS) 1.12, A.1
- Anticipatory repudiatory breach 13.14–18
- Applicable law 1.30
- Approved for construction (AFC) drawings B.26
- Arbitration 6.39, 8.113, 11.48, 13.41, 13.79
- Area of mutual interest agreement (AMIA) 5.114
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Audit
- of substantial cost overruns 6.96
- Authorisation of changes 6.72–73
- Best efforts 8.48, 8.50
- Best endeavours 2.61, 8.48, 8.50, 11.79, 11.81
- Bidding process
- Binding contract 2.12–18
- Board approval 2.27
- Business interruption 14.28–29
- Cancellation 2.76
- Carry over agreements
- Cashflow 2.127–128
- Certification approval 3.93–101
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- Claims
- Collateral contracts 2.103–104
- Collateral warranties 5.72–73
- Compensation
- Complete documents 2.102
- Comprehensive clauses 6.43–52
- Computer simulations 8.90
- Concurrent delay 8.75–78
- Confidential information 9.7
- Conflict of laws 2.11
- Consequential costs 2.75
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Consequential losses
12.32, 12.58
- see also Risk allocation
- Constructability/suitability 3.69–75
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Construction all risks (CAR) policy 12.75
- see also WELCAR form
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Construction contracts
1.34–39
- comparison table 1.39
- Construction support vessels 1.13
- Contingencies 15.45, 15.46, 19.21
- Contract award 2.52
- Contract documents 2.80–83
- Contractor delay 8.53–61
- Contractor’s default 1.24–25
- Contractor’s liability 12.103–107
- Contractor’s performance 7.6
- Contracts
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Contractual definitions
5.38–41
- problems with 5.45
- Contractual description 4.4–9
- Contra proferentem 11.15–18
- Control mechanisms 2.139
- Conventional guarantees
- Conversion contracts 1.31
- Conversions 3.78–79
- Cooperation principle 8.117
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Copyright
9.9
- see also Intellectual property rights
- Corporate guarantees 16.43
- Cost oil 5.112
- Costs of delay
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- Cumulative effects 6.63–66
- Damages see Liquidated damages
- Defects
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Delay
- caused by the company 8.92–93
- consequences of 8.6–7
- contract terminology 8.2–5
- costs of delay 8.52, 8.62–8.73
- due diligence and liquidated damages 8.47–50
- due diligence obligations 8.45–46
- liquidated damages and termination 8.38–41
- liquidated damages for 8.11–14
- no occurrence of loss 8.27–31
- penalty clauses 8.15–26
- target delivery date 8.8–10
- termination date 8.41–44
- time 8.51
- unlimited liquidated damages 8.32–37
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Delivery
10.6–12
- acceptance and 10.6
- buyer on 10.6
- company accepts 10.13
- company refuses 10.21
- EPC project 10.4
- illustrations of defects 10.59–73
- immaterial defects 10.47–52
- minor or insubstantial defects 10.26–36
- multiple defects 10.37–46
- offshore construction contract 10.3
- place and time 10.122
- place of
- process of contractual delivery 10.8
- sea trials programme 10.17–25
- technical acceptance 10.15–16
- termination following rejection 10.53–58
- test procedures 10.74–78
- tests 10.13
- of work 10.3
- see also Acceptance and delivery
- Design property, ownership of 2.77
- Design responsibility 1.21, 2.38–51
- Design rights 9.8
- Design risk
- Design verification 3.62
- Direct relationships 5.70–80
- Disclosure 20.26–28
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- Disputes over rework 7.37–40
- Disruption claims 8.52
- Doctrine of equivalents 9.22
- Drawings, revision of 2.92
- Drilling vessels A.19–31
- Due diligence
- Duty of mitigation 15.54–60
- Ejusdem generis principle 15.9
- Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRV) 1.12, A.1
- Endorsement period 3.62
- Energy exploration and development 14.24–27
- Entire agreement clauses 2.105–106
- EPC contract terms 1.40–47
- EPCI contract terms 1.40–47
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EPC project
- acceptance and delivery 10.4
- EPIC contract terms 1.40–47
- Exclusive nominees 5.55–56
- Expert determination 20.20–21
- Expert evidence 8.86–91
- Exploration and production (E&P) 5.90
- Fabrication 1.22
- FEED (front end engineering design) 3.2
- Final investment decision (FID) 2.40, 2.41
- Financial guarantees
- Financing
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Fitness for purpose
3.72, 3.76
- design 3.1
- Floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) 1.40, A.84–86, A.88
- Floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) 1.9, 1.16, 1.18, 1.40, 5.7, 6.44, 6.50, 9.90, 10.71–72, 10.127, 10.128, 12.30, A.53
- Floating Storage, Regasification and Power units (FSRP) 1.19, A.90–92
- Floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) 1.40, A.79–83, A.90–92
- Force majeure
- Fraud 11.71
- Freight demurrage and defence (FD&D) 14.50
- Freight prepaid 13.17
- Functional specification 3.71, 3.73, 3.91, 3.92
- Fundamental design defects 18.39–42
- Global claims 8.79–85
- Good faith
- Gross negligence 11.43–48, 11.48, 12.92, 12.95, 12.98
- Guarantees, financial
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- Heavy lift barges 1.13
- Hold harmless 12.100–101
- Hull and machinery insurance 14.33–35
- IMCA Construction Contract 11.38, 18.2, 18.8, 18.28
- Implied duty of care 3.42–46
- Implied terms 8.47, 13.35, 14.121, 18.14
- Inchmaree clause 14.100, 14.101, 14.104
- Incorporation
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Indemnities
- against claims 12.102
- clauses 11.11–14
- contra proferentem 11.15–18
- defend and hold harmless 12.100–101
- degrees of culpability 11.33–42
- deliberate breach/deliberate default 11.64–70
- fraud 11.71
- gross negligence 11.43–48
- liabilities and expenses 12.102
- and limitation clauses 12.83–84
- for liquidated damages for delay 19.23
- losses 12.102
- purpose of contract 11.19–20
- rejection of literalism 11.25–32
- repudiatory breach of contract 11.87–88
- in respect of each party’s group 12.85–90
- wilful misconduct 11.49–63
- see also Liability clauses
- Indemnity clauses 11.11–14
- Independent acts 5.81–84
- Indirect loss 12.58
- Injunctions 13.74
- Installation 19.19–20
- Insurance
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Intellectual property rights
- allocation of 9.58–60
- changes to original design 9.21–24
- clearing the way 9.61–62
- commissioning 9.19–20
- confidential information 9.7
- copyright 9.9
- designs 9.8
- enforcement and jurisdictional differences 9.72–76
- intellectual property warranty 9.25–30
- law of vessel’s flag state 9.18
- licensing 9.63–71
- modifications to existing works 9.77–80
- new works to an existing design 9.81
- no infringement due to patent 9.31
- ownership of 9.38–43
- patents 9.6
- previous use of design 9.32
- protection of 9.44–53
- third party 9.54–57
- trade marks 9.10
- worldwide patent 9.16–17
- Intellectual property warranty 9.25–30
- Interim injunctions 13.74
- International standards 2.72, 3.72
- Interpretation of contracts 4.13
- Jackups
- Joint operating agreement (JOA) 5.100
- Joint study and bid agreement (JSBA) 5.114
- Joint venture 5.87, 5.98, 5.113–150
- Leasing 2.136–138
- Legal proceedings 20.4–11
- Letters of intent 2.53
- Lex situs 13.69
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Liability clauses
- contra proferentem 11.15–18
- degrees of culpability 11.33–42
- deliberate breach/deliberate default 11.64–70
- fraud 11.71
- gross negligence 11.43–48
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- for liquidated damages for delay 19.23
- purpose of contract 11.19–20
- rejection of literalism 11.25–32
- repudiatory breach of contract 11.87–88
- wilful misconduct 11.49–63
- Licensing regimes 5.91–96
- Lien 19.12, 19.13
- Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (LLMC) 12.108–117
- Limitation periods 14.94
- Liquidated damages 5.47
- LNG regasification units 1.17, A.79–92
- Local content 5.106–108
- LOGIC (Leading Oil and Gas Industry Competitiveness) 11.18, 11.37, 11.39, 12.3, 12.24
- Loss adjusters 14.119–120
- Loss of profit 12.58
- Measured Mile B.59
- Mediation 20.22–23
- Misrepresentation 3.28–32, 5.75–77
- Mitigation
- Mobile production units (MOPU) A.50–78
- Multiple defects 10.37–46
- Multiple variations 6.52–71, 6.53–54
- Negative change orders 6.104–113
- Negligence
- Negotiations 2.71
- Nominated subcontractors
- Non-conformity 7.7
- Non-disclosure 3.33–37
- Notice provisions 15.17
- Offshore support vessels (OSV) 1.12, 10.74, A.1–5
- Omissions, contract price for 6.109
- On demand guarantees
- On demand performance guarantees
- Operating committee (OpCom) 5.132
- Operator appointment 5.122
- Operator exclusion 5.130–131
- Operator-led structure, JOAs 5.120
- Operator liability 5.129
- Operator rights and responsibilities 5.124–128
- Outstanding work 17.13–15
- Paget’s presumption 16.34
- Patent/latent errors 3.67–68
- Patents 9.6
- Penalty clauses 8.15–26
- Performance bonds 2.8, 13.89, 16.20, 16.37–40
- Performance tests by contractor
- Perform rework 7.29–36
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Petroleum rights contracts
- cost oil 5.112
- health, safety and environment (HSE) 5.109–111
- joint venture structures 5.113–114
- liability 5.100
- local content and social welfare 5.106–108
- management 5.104
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- parties 5.98
- profit oil 5.112
- relinquishment 5.103
- state participation 5.99
- term 5.101
- work programme and budgets (WPB) 5.105
- Pipelaying vessels 1.13
- Pipelay systems A.13–14
- Piping systems 3.2
- Piracy 14.36
- Platform supply vessels 1.12, A.1
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Policy wordings
14.22–23
- business interruption 14.28–29
- construction all risks 14.32
- contingent business interruption 14.30–31
- delay in start-up insurance 14.39–41
- energy exploration and development 14.24–27
- freight demurrage and defence (FD&D) 14.50
- hull and machinery insurance 14.33–35
- kidnap and ransom 14.51
- loss of hire insurance 14.38
- loss of production income 14.28–29
- operators’ extra expense 14.24–27
- protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance 14.42–49
- strike insurance 14.37
- war risks insurance 14.36
- Pollution 12.19–30
- Post-delivery defects 18.25–27
- Post-delivery guarantee obligations 17.11–12
- Pre-contract bid clarification 2.80
- Pre-FEED/concept design 3.2
- Production contracts 5.85–89
- Production sharing contract (PSC) 5.96
- Profit oil 5.112
- Project controls
- Protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance 14.42–49
- Reasonable endeavours 8.10, 10.112, 15.31, 15.54, 15.55, 15.57
- Rectification 2.108–116
- Refund guarantees 2.34–37
- Regulatory and certification approval
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Rejection
- termination following 10.53–58
- Relevant policy wordings 14.22–51
- Relinquishment 5.103
- Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operations 12.79
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Repairs undertaken by company
18.28–32
- see also Defects
- Repudiation 13.14
- Rescission 13.7–9
- Retrospective effect 2.78
- Risk allocation
- Saturation diving systems A.15–18
- Sea trials programme 10.17–25
- Security 2.129–135
- Semi-submersibles 1.15, 3.4, 10.124, 41–49
- Service contract regime 5.94–95
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Shipbuilding contracts
1.32–33
- vs. construction contract 1.33–39
- Side letters 2.107
- Simple negligence 11.43
- Standard form 1.28–29
- Standby vessels 1.12, 1
- Starting position, subcontracting 5.9–10
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Step-in rights
5.48
- see also Terminology
- Strike insurance 14.37
- Subcontracting
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Subcontractor
15.25–30
- see also Nominated subcontractors
- Subrogation 14.124–131
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Subsea support vessels
1.13, A.6–A.12
- construction and 1.13
- System integration tests (SITs) 10.97
- Target delivery date 8.8–10
- Technical acceptance 10.10
- Technical documentation
- Technical requirements (TR) 3.72
- Tendering and negotiating contracts
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Terminology
1.7–10
- affirmation 13.47–56
- anticipatory repudiatory breach 13.14–18
- cancellation and similar terms 13.7–13
- clear and unequivocal evidence 13.19–25
- by contractor 13.93–97
- damages for repudiation 13.43–46
- impossibility 13.26–39
- qualified termination 13.40–42
- repudiation and similar terms 13.14
- taking possession of the work 13.57–61
- TOWCON form 11.76
- Transportation and installation
- True documents 2.102
- Turret mooring system (TMS) 9.84
- Variable deck load (VDL) 10.63
- Variation clause
- Variations, changes to the work
- Verification of company-produced documents 3.62
- Verification period 3.62
- Vessels
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- Warranty claims
- Warranty surveyors 14.79–83
- War risks 12.76, 14.36
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WELCAR form
14.3, 14.32, 14.52–136
- activities 14.77–78
- claims
- coverage 14.84–88
- damages for late payment 14.121–123
- design and defective parts 14.95–118
- insureds 14.55–61
- interests 14.63–66
- law and jurisdiction 14.132–136
- loss adjusters 14.119–120
- maintenance coverage 14.74–76
- period 14.70–73
- QA/QC systems 14.67–69
- rights exercisable through 14.62
- subrogation 14.124–131
- warranties and warranty surveyors 14.79–83
- Well intervention vessels 1.13
- Wilful misconduct 11.49–63
- Wind 3.71, 3.72, 14.90, A.93–98
- Wind turbine construction vessels (WTIV) A.93–98
- Witness evidence 20.31–32
- Work modification 3.99–101
- Work programme and budgets (WPB) 5.105
- Wreck removal 12.72–74