John Bowman serves as an expert on international petroleum contracts and as an arbitrator in international energy disputes. He also frequently writes and speaks on international arbitration and international oil and gas topics. His latest publication: Risk Mitigation in International Petroleum Contracts, 50 Georgetown Journal of International Law 745–87 (2019).
John received the Institute for Energy Law’s Lifetime Achievement in Energy Litigation Award in 2017. He served as President of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators in 2014-2015 [the only disputes lawyer to hold this position in the AIPN’s 42-year history], and in 2021 he received the AIPN’s Distinguished Negotiator Award.
During his 40-year career as an advocate, John represented energy companies in disputes concerning expropriation of facilities and contract rights, production sharing contracts (renegotiation demands, windfall profits taxes, cost recovery, cross-boundary gas migration, failure of NOC to pay costs), AMIs and CAs, JOAs (removal of operator, JIBs, pref rights, voting rights, sole risk operations, failure to develop), seismic licensing agreements, drilling contracts (contract existence, mob delay, indemnification for pollution), natural gas and LNG sales contracts (price reopeners, destination clauses, TOP, ratable takes, reserve substitution, contract extension, gas qualit...
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John Bowman commands a distinctive position in the energy sector for his unmatched expertise on oil and gas matters, earning recognition for his in-depth approach to international petroleum, natural gas and LNG contract disputes.