Handbook for Upstream Oilfield Contract Administrators: Using Contracts and Insurance to Manage Operational Risk - Tapa blanda

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Donald P. Butler has written and lectured widely on master service agreements, drilling contracts and construction agreements in the upstream oil and gas business. In addition to many seminar presentations, he co-authored a 2011 paper entitled “Stress Test for Upstream Contractual Risk Management: Indemnities, Insurance, and Limitation of Liability Clauses after Deepwater Horizon” for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute. He is currently President of RM Projects and Training L.L.C. devoting his time to research, writing and training in the area of upstream operational risk management. He practiced law from 1972 to 2013. After a stint as a litigator, he spent thirty years working as an in-house lawyer for several independent exploration and production companies. Along with other duties, he was responsible for drilling contracts, master service agreements and construction contracts, handling projects big and small, domestic and international. He has been active in educational and professional arenas. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center teaching Oil and Gas Law. He is a past president of the Houston Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, and he was the first recipient of the Houston Chapter’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also contributed time to the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program.