A global Oil & Gas Law, Maritime Law and International Trades and Transactions Law Firm with Offices in Alberta, Ontario and Africa, providing legal and ancillary services in Oil & Gas Law, and Maritime Law, International Oil & Gas Commercial Services, including sale and purchase, and International Agency Services. 

The Oil & Gas sector, similar to the Maritime sector, and the laws that regulate them have followed separate and distinct patterns of evolution. Whilst the IMO has enacted several Conventions since the 1914 International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea, as the maritime sector`s regulatory body, these Conventions have provided adequate guidance in the management and operations of Oil & Gas activities without necessarily classifying the sector as falling directly under the IMO Conventions. A deep understanding of these leading sectors in world economics would lead one to discover the interrelationship and interdependence between these two global sectors. 

Crude oil is the most traded commodity worldwide, dominating global trade in volume and value as it is the primary fuel source for transportation, industrial production, and electricity generation, making it an essential resource for economic growth. On the other hand, Maritime transport is the backbone of global trade, moving over 80% of goods traded worldwide by volume. It connects global value chains, carrying raw materials and semi-processed goods to production hubs and delivering finished products to consumers. This is supported by the fact that the seas make up 71% of the total surface of this planet, earth. 

While crude oil is the major commodity in the 80% volume that is transported by sea, the maritime sector unarguably depends on the sector for its cargo and provides ancillary transport for the machinery, equipment, materials, supplies, personnel transportation that the oil sector relies on for its own sustainability. The complexity of these operations and the plethora of contracts, sub-contracts and diverse jurisdictions involved in the realization of these operations warrant special knowledge and skills.

At FA Law Office, we combine knowledge, skill and experience in Oil and Gas, and Maritime Operations and Law, not leaving out Mediation and Arbitration, which are the preferred methods for the prevention of, and the resolution of disputes in these sectors. To enhance these, we include routine practice in employment and immigration laws, which provide additional support to all the workers and working relations, and assist in the cross-border movements of personnel in these sectors.