Offshore Construction Law and Practice
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Index
Index
- Acceleration –25
- Acceptance and delivery –12
- Acceptance certificates
- Acceptance period –87
- Actual costs approach
- AFE procedure –142
- Affirmation –56
- Ambiguous wording –34
- Anchor Handling Towing Supply vessels (AHTS) ,
- Anticipatory repudiatory breach –18
- Applicable law
- Approved for construction (AFC) drawings
- Arbitration , , , ,
- Area of mutual interest agreement (AMIA)
- Audit
- Authorisation of changes –73
- Best efforts ,
- Best endeavours , , , ,
- Bidding process
- Binding contract –18
- Board approval
- Business interruption –29
- Cancellation
- Carry over agreements
- Cashflow –128
- Certification approval –101
-
Changes to the workPage 444
- Claims
- Collateral contracts –104
- Collateral warranties –73
- Compensation
- Complete documents
- Comprehensive clauses –52
- Computer simulations
- Concurrent delay –78
- Confidential information
- Conflict of laws
- Consequential costs
-
Consequential losses ,
- see also Risk allocation
- Constructability/suitability –75
-
Construction all risks (CAR) policy 12.75
- see also WELCAR form
- Construction contracts –39
- Construction support vessels
- Contingencies , ,
- Contract award
- Contract documents –83
- Contractor delay –61
- Contractor’s default –25
- Contractor’s liability –107
- Contractor’s performance
- Contracts
- Contractual definitions –41
- Contractual description –9
- Contra proferentem –18
- Control mechanisms
- Conventional guarantees
- Conversion contracts
- Conversions –79
- Cooperation principle
-
Copyright
- see also Intellectual property rights
- Corporate guarantees
- Cost oil
- Costs of delay
-
Culpability, degrees of –42Page 445
- Cumulative effects –66
- Damages see Liquidated damages
- Defects
-
Delay
- caused by the company –93
- consequences of –7
- contract terminology –5
- costs of delay , –
- due diligence and liquidated damages –50
- due diligence obligations –46
- liquidated damages and termination –41
- liquidated damages for –14
- no occurrence of loss –31
- penalty clauses –26
- target delivery date –10
- termination date –44
- time
- unlimited liquidated damages –37
-
Delivery –12
- acceptance and
- buyer on
- company accepts
- company refuses
- EPC project
- illustrations of defects –73
- immaterial defects –52
- minor or insubstantial defects –36
- multiple defects –46
- offshore construction contract
- place and time
- place of
- process of contractual delivery
- sea trials programme –25
- technical acceptance –16
- termination following rejection –58
- test procedures –78
- tests
- of work
- see also Acceptance and delivery
- Design property, ownership of
- Design responsibility , –51
- Design rights
- Design risk
- Design verification
- Direct relationships –80
- Disclosure –28
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Dispute resolution procedures –25Page 446
- Disputes over rework –40
- Disruption claims
- Doctrine of equivalents
- Drawings, revision of
- Drilling vessels –31
- Due diligence
- Duty of mitigation –60
- Ejusdem generis principle
- Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRV) ,
- Endorsement period
- Energy exploration and development –27
- Entire agreement clauses –106
- EPC contract terms –47
- EPCI contract terms –47
- EPC project
- EPIC contract terms –47
- Exclusive nominees –56
- Expert determination –21
- Expert evidence –91
- Exploration and production (E&P)
- Fabrication
- FEED (front end engineering design)
- Final investment decision (FID) ,
- Financial guarantees
- Financing
- Fitness for purpose ,
- Floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) , –86,
- Floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) , , , , , , , , –72, , , ,
- Floating Storage, Regasification and Power units (FSRP) , –92
- Floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) , –83, –92
- Force majeure
- Fraud
- Freight demurrage and defence (FD&D)
- Freight prepaid
- Functional specification , , ,
- Fundamental design defects –42
- Global claims –85
- Good faith
- Gross negligence –48, , , ,
- Guarantees, financial
-
Health, safety and environment (HSE) –111Page 447
- Heavy lift barges
- Hold harmless –101
- Hull and machinery insurance –35
- IMCA Construction Contract , , ,
- Implied duty of care –46
- Implied terms , , ,
- Inchmaree clause , ,
- Incorporation
-
Indemnities
- against claims
- clauses –14
- contra proferentem –18
- defend and hold harmless –101
- degrees of culpability –42
- deliberate breach/deliberate default –70
- fraud
- gross negligence –48
- liabilities and expenses
- and limitation clauses –84
- for liquidated damages for delay
- losses
- purpose of contract –20
- rejection of literalism –32
- repudiatory breach of contract –88
- in respect of each party’s group –90
- wilful misconduct –63
- see also Liability clauses
- Indemnity clauses –14
- Independent acts –84
- Indirect loss
- Injunctions
- Installation –20
- Insurance
-
Intellectual property rights
- allocation of –60
- changes to original design –24
- clearing the way –62
- commissioning –20
- confidential information
- copyright
- designs
- enforcement and jurisdictional differences –76
- intellectual property warranty –30
- law of vessel’s flag state
- licensing –71
- modifications to existing works –80
- new works to an existing design
- no infringement due to patent
- ownership of –43
- patents
- previous use of design
- protection of –53
- third party –57
- trade marks
- worldwide patent –17
- Intellectual property warranty –30
- Interim injunctions
- International standards ,
- Interpretation of contracts
- Leasing –138
- Legal proceedings –11
- Letters of intent
- Lex situs
-
Liability clauses
- contra proferentem –18
- degrees of culpability –42
- deliberate breach/deliberate default –70
- fraud
- gross negligence –48
-
indemnity clauses –14Page 448
- for liquidated damages for delay
- purpose of contract –20
- rejection of literalism –32
- repudiatory breach of contract –88
- wilful misconduct –63
- Licensing regimes –96
- Lien ,
- Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (LLMC) –117
- Limitation periods
- Liquidated damages
- LNG regasification units , –92
- Local content –108
- LOGIC (Leading Oil and Gas Industry Competitiveness) , , , ,
- Loss adjusters –120
- Loss of profit
- Measured Mile
- Mediation –23
- Misrepresentation –32, –77
- Mitigation
- Mobile production units (MOPU) –78
- Multiple defects –46
- Multiple variations –71, –54
- Negative change orders –113
- Negligence
- Negotiations
- Nominated subcontractors
- Non-conformity
- Non-disclosure –37
- Notice provisions
- Offshore support vessels (OSV) , , –5
- Omissions, contract price for
- On demand guarantees
- On demand performance guarantees
- Operating committee (OpCom)
- Operator appointment
- Operator exclusion –131
- Operator-led structure, JOAs
- Operator liability
- Operator rights and responsibilities –128
- Outstanding work –15
- Paget’s presumption
- Patent/latent errors –68
- Patents
- Penalty clauses –26
- Performance bonds , , , –40
- Performance tests by contractor
- Perform rework –36
-
Petroleum rights contracts
- cost oil
- health, safety and environment (HSE) –111
- joint venture structures –114
- liability
- local content and social welfare –108
- management
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minimum work obligationsPage 449
- parties
- profit oil
- relinquishment
- state participation
- term
- work programme and budgets (WPB)
- Pipelaying vessels
- Pipelay systems –14
- Piping systems
- Piracy
- Platform supply vessels ,
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Policy wordings –23
- business interruption –29
- construction all risks
- contingent business interruption –31
- delay in start-up insurance –41
- energy exploration and development –27
- freight demurrage and defence (FD&D)
- hull and machinery insurance –35
- kidnap and ransom
- loss of hire insurance
- loss of production income –29
- operators’ extra expense –27
- protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance –49
- strike insurance
- war risks insurance
- Pollution –30
- Post-delivery defects –27
- Post-delivery guarantee obligations –12
- Pre-contract bid clarification
- Pre-FEED/concept design
- Production contracts –89
- Production sharing contract (PSC)
- Profit oil
- Project controls
- Protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance –49
- Reasonable endeavours , , , , ,
- Rectification –116
- Refund guarantees –37
- Regulatory and certification approval
- Rejection
- Relevant policy wordings –51
- Relinquishment
- Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) operations
-
Repairs undertaken by company –32
- see also Defects
- Repudiation
- Rescission –9
- Retrospective effect
- Risk allocation
- Saturation diving systems –18
- Sea trials programme –25
- Security –135
- Semi-submersibles , , , 41–49
- Service contract regime –95
- Shipbuilding contracts –33
- Side letters
- Simple negligence
- Standard form –29
- Standby vessels , 1
- Starting position, subcontracting –10
-
Step-in rights
- see also Terminology
- Strike insurance
-
Subcontracting
- direct relationships –71
- independent acts or omissions –84
- liability
- or supplier –36
-
contractual definitions –41Page 450
- delay –48
- distinction matter
- equipment and materials
- illustration
- problems with contractual definitions
- renomination
-
- principles –7
- restrictions on
- as third party –34
-
Subcontractor –30
- see also Nominated subcontractors
- Subrogation –131
- Subsea support vessels , –
- System integration tests (SITs)
- Target delivery date –10
- Technical acceptance
- Technical documentation
- Technical requirements (TR)
- Tendering and negotiating contracts
- Terminology –10
- TOWCON form
- Transportation and installation
- True documents
- Turret mooring system (TMS)
- Variable deck load (VDL)
- Variation clause
- Variations, changes to the work
- Verification of company-produced documents
- Verification period
- Vessels
-
Warranties –21Page 451
- Warranty claims
- Warranty surveyors –83
- War risks ,
-
WELCAR form , , –136
- activities –78
- claims
- coverage –88
- damages for late payment –123
- design and defective parts –118
- insureds –61
- interests –66
- law and jurisdiction –136
- loss adjusters –120
- maintenance coverage –76
- period –73
- QA/QC systems –69
- rights exercisable through
- subrogation –131
- warranties and warranty surveyors –83
- Well intervention vessels
- Wilful misconduct –63
- Wind , , , –98
- Wind turbine construction vessels (WTIV) –98
- Witness evidence –32
- Work modification –101
- Work programme and budgets (WPB)
- Wreck removal –74