Isla Stewart

Matheson

Isla is an Associate in the Oil & Gas team. She qualified in 2010 after spending her traineeship with a leading international law firm. Isla then spent three years with the offshore oil and gas industry's leading trade association, Oil & Gas UK, as their in-house lawyer where she gained a strong background in working on complex industry issues across the UKCS.

Isla advises both operator and service sector clients on a range of aspects including asset acquisitions and disposals, joint venture matters and service sector contracts.

She has also been involved in a number of industry initiatives, most prominently the revision of the LOGIC general terms and conditions, the competing interests of the renewables industry offshore and the development of post-tax security for decommissioning security agreements.

Isla has also spent time on secondment to upstream oil and gas companies Talisman-Sinopec and Maersk Oil.

Contributed to

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Allocation of liability in the UKCS: the Industry Mutual Hold Harmless Scheme (IMHH)

Practice notes

This Practice Note provides an overview of the purpose and extent of LOGIC’s Industry Mutual Hold Harmless Scheme (the ‘IMHH’), designed to ensure ...

Energy

Decommissioning—decommissioning relief deed

Practice notes

This Practice Note gives an overview of the decommissioning relief deed (DRD), the prescribed form contract entered into between a company that is ...

Energy

Decommissioning—International Law and UK Government Policy

Practice notes

This Practice Note provides an overview to the UK government policy on decommissioning in the UK, the process for permanently removing installations ...

Energy

Decommissioning—legislative background

Practice notes

This Practice Note provides an overview to the legislative background to oil and gas decommissioning on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS), ...

Energy

Decommissioning—planning for decommissioning

Practice notes

This Practice Note gives an overview of the process of planning for decommissioning of oil and gas pipelines or installations on the United Kingdom ...

Energy

Transfer of assets on the UKCS—the Master Deed

Practice notes

This Practice Note gives an overview of the Master Deed process, the standardised transfer mechanism for oil and gas assets on the United Kingdom ...

Energy