Contract Templates in Upstream
Oil and Gas

29.01.2026 at 2:30 pm (2 hours including Q&A)

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Designed for:

Upstream oil and gas professionals from non-legal backgrounds: supply chain management, procurement, commercial

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You will achieve:

Skill to review and negotiate FM clauses in upstream oil and gas with balanced risk allocation approach

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Trainer:

Olga Labai brings forward 22+ years of international upstream oil and gas experience

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Our Focus:

To equip attendees with tools that allow to save millions of dollars and hundreds of hours on contracts

Contract Templates in Upstream Oil and Gas

29.01.2026 at 2:30 pm (2 hours including Q&A)

Designed for:
Upstream oil and gas professionals from non-legal backgrounds: supply chain management, procurement, commercial
You will achieve:
Skill to review and negotiate FM clauses in upstream oil and gas with balanced risk allocation approach
Trainer:
Olga Labai brings forward 22+ years of international upstream oil and gas experience​
Our Focus:
To equip attendees with tools that allow to save millions of dollars and hundreds of hours on contracts

Difficulty level of this session:

When you aim for excellent contracting practice

When you aim for excellent contracting practice​

How many templates does one procurement organization require to contract all that is necessary for an average international oil and gas upstream project? Does “average” even exist in international upstream oil and gas? Join us for this live class to discover how to approach drafting of the contract templates to ensure your contracts don’t look like “patchwork” to the community of contractors.

This is not about what you write in each specific template, which is critical yes, but what is more critical is what templates do you need to adopt for which categories of procurement? There are particular ways how you can approach the process of drafting templates by figuring out how many, for which categories and which of those templates can wait until later stages of the project.

This session contains best practices for:

  • Supply chain management professionals
  • Contract engineers and managers
  • Tender and bid preparation specialists
  • Contract negotiators of all levels
  • Project managers
  • Operational and technical personnel
  • Business development specialists
  • Cost recovery and tax experts

And other non-legal specialists, who have exposure to revenue generating or procurement contracts as part of their roles (in upstream operators, suppliers and contractors)

Trainer Olga Labai

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Brings forward 22+ years of experience in upstream oil and gas to teach how to save millions of dollars and hundreds of hours in contracting.

Olga Labai is both a practicing lawyer and trainer, with 18 years of professional experience providing legal advice on both a contentious and non-contentious
basis within the upstream oil and gas sector. Prior to the establishment of OGC, she worked for Sakhalin Energy, the operator of the “Sakhalin-2” project in Russia, operator of the first LNG plant in Russia, and for Weatherford in the Middle East, where she covered all legal issues for Weatherford’s Iraq and Kurdistan operations.

You will get

2+ hours of live online session

Live class with Olga Labai

Exact time depends on length of Q&A part

Training materials

Delegates will receive materials, including drafting, review and negotiations guide

Lifetime access

To the session recording and materials (within 24 hours after session)

Our clients and students

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Oil and Gas Consultants has been on a consistent excellence journey for 10 years. People choose us because of our pragmatism – any training must contain practical take-aways to transform their organization’s contracting practice and, as a result, save millions of dollars and hundreds of hours a year.

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“Olga is a professional legal instructor who can deliver the information in the right way. She has a good background and experience which needed to add a value to the audience…”

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Sulaiman Albogari
Manager – Contractors & Services Management at SABIC

“I recently attended Olga’s course Understanding Contractual Terms and Conditions at Maersk Training Centre in Dubai South. It was a great experience learnin g from someone with a clear passion for the subject, and an interesting background in the in“dustry. This course is highly recommended for people that deal with contracts on a regular basis but do not have the necessary legal background to confidently manage it. Looking forward to future related courses…” 

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Jamie Harper
Commercial Director at DCN Diving Middle East and Africa

“I attended 2 day training on “Understanding Terms and Conditions in the Contract” with Olga, one day of which covered commercial part of the contract (legal theory of LDs, payment provisions, termination/suspension, SoW etc.) and second day covered all the legal contractual concepts (indemnity, liability, consequential and catastrophic losses) …”

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Bassam Safarini
Director of Sales
Endress + Hauser LLC

“I attended 2 day training on “Understanding Terms and Conditions in the Contract” with Olga, one day of which covered commercial part of the contract (legal theory of LDs, payment provisions, termination/suspension, SoW etc.) and second day covered all the legal contractual concepts (indemnity, liability, consequential and catastrophic losses) …”

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Muhammad Isa Jibril
Gas Project Engineer at Nigerian Petroleum Development Company

“I attended 2 day training on “Understanding Terms and Conditions in the Contract” with Olga, one day of which covered commercial part of the contract (legal theory of LDs, payment provisions, termination/suspension, SoW etc.) and second day covered all the legal contractual concepts (indemnity, liability, consequential and catastrophic losses) …”

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Muhammad Isa Jibril
Gas Project Engineer at Nigerian Petroleum Development Company

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Asekhame Yadua
Reservoir Engineer at NPDC
Member of the World Energy Council

“Olga’s insights and excellent delivery helped us to understand the legal and regulatory issues around JV agreements. I would gladly recommend Olga to any organization that is interested in improving the legal aspect of its business.”

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Maher Al Balushi
General Manager, Oman – Director of Business Development, MENA at Cansco Well Control

“Olga delivered in-house contract course for my team, we went through newly drafted Revenue Generating Contract Procedure and covered many contractual concepts like liabilities, indemnities, special (catastrophic) events etc. I enjoyed Olga’s style of delivery, all the exercises, engagement and interaction. Recommended!”

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Saifullah Sjaifuddin
Manager LNG Equity Projects for Africa Area at Eni S.P.A.

Olga is an excellent teacher. Her broad knowledge on overall contracting chains in the LNG Industry, give us opportunity even to learn and discuss with her on matters beyond the course in the subject. Her energetic teaching style keeps all students remain attentive to the course topic under discussion… read more

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