Shane Kyriakou

Partner, Melbourne

Direct +61 3 9288 1329

Fax +61 3 9288 1567

Current practice

Experience

Professional background

Experience

Shane has worked extensively with a range of national and international clients in many industries.

LNG and gas processing clients include:

Santos on the development of an $8billion coal seam gas-fed LNG development at Gladstone
Santos on its participation in a multi field unitisation and $12billion LNG development in Papua New Guinea
MEO Australia on the development of co-located and common feedstock LNG and methanol projects on Tassie Shoal in the Timor Sea
Santos on the Longtom toll processing and gas sales arrangements with Nexus Energy
LyondellBasell on all aspects of its petrochemicals/polyolefins business in Australia, and
Petrochemical Industries Corp of Kuwait on the acquisition of a global olefins business from Dow Chemical.

Upstream oil & gas clients include:

Santos on common infrastructure arrangements with the Gorgon LNG joint venture on Barrow Island and the sequestration of Co2 by Gorgon into wells belonging to the Barrow Island joint venture
MEO Australia on the farmin to and farmout of the W359-361 permits in Western Australia
Soco International on the sale of its oil producing and exploration assets in Mongolia, Tunisia and Thailand
Centrica plc on the acquisition of oil & gas producing fields in the North Sea
Lundin Petroleum on the acquisition of oil & gas producing assets in the UK, Norway and Ireland, and an associated borrowing base finance facility
Mitsui/MOECO on their proposed joint purchase of assets in the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation on the sale and purchase of gas from Qatar via undersea pipeline, and
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation on the sale and purchase of gas from Iran via undersea pipeline.

International and joint development clients include:

BG, Chevron and Rio Tinto on their petroleum concessions in an area the subject of dispute with Cambodia and the development of a hydrocarbon joint development zone in the Gulf of Thailand
ERHC Energy on the implementation of its rights to oil & gas acreage in the Nigeria/Sao Tome joint Development Area and associated fundraising options
KUFPEC on the restructure and renegotiation of arrangements with its concessionaire in the Kuwait/Saudi Arabia Offshore Divided Zone, including a US$750million loan facility, and
Mitsui/MOECO on their proposed joint purchase of assets in the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area.

Pipeline clients include:

Babcock & Brown infrastructure on the operational separation of the Tasmanian Gas Pipeline
Singapore Power on the development of the South Gippsland Natural Gas Pipeline
Santos on the development of the Fairview to Wallambilla Gas Pipeline
IFM on the acquisition of interests in the Colonial Petroleum Pipeline in the United States
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation on the development of a cross border pipeline between Kuwait and Iran
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation on the structuring and development of an undersea gas pipeline between Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait including host government and intergovernment arrangements
AIOC in relation to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline, and
Teesside Power on transportation, capacity and allocation arrangements in a private gas pipeline network.

Power clients include:

Zinifex on power purchase and associated hedging arrangements for the Roseberry zinc mine
Mitsui on the portfolio acquisition of 10 IPP power stations in consortium with International Power and an associated mezzanine financing facility
Macquarie Bank on the sale of its 50 per cent interest in South Korean power producer Posco Power
Centrica plc on the acquisition of the Barry CCGT power station and energy wholesaler Enron Direct
J Power and Mitsui on their joint bid for a 50 per cent interest in South Korean power producer KIECO
Teeside Power on the sale of its 1800 mW CCGT power station
Teeside Power on the restructure of shareholder, essential service supply and PPA arrangements
State Government of Victoria on the implementation of retail competition in Victoria’s electricity markets including the associated restructure and rewriting of the Victorian Electricity Act, and
United Energy on the merger of its energy distribution, retailing and trading interests into the Pulse Group.

Mining clients include:

Anglo American on a strategic alliance agreement with Austindo Resources in Indonesia
MinMet plc on numerous minerals farmin, joint venture and royalty override arrangements
Moonstone Resources on the development of the Altyn-Tas Gold Mine in Kazakhstan, and
Rio Tinto on the divestment of a series of tenements in Western Australia.

Other infrastructure clients include:

Department of Transport (Victoria) on the development of major project facilitation legislation
Department of Infrastructure (Victoria) on the expansion and redevelopment of the passenger rail line from Caulfield to Dandenong
IFM on the acquisition of Anglia Water plc including structuring and consortium arrangements
Macquarie Korea Opportunities Fund on the portfolio acquisition together with Hanjin Shipping of port interests in Japan, Korea and the United States
AustralianSuper on its co-investment into the acquisition of port interests in the United States
Macquarie Bank on the divestment of its preference shareholding in CJ Cablenet in Taiwan
the Eurostar rail operator on a restructure merging the three Eurostar businesses (one in each of the United Kingdom, France and Belgium) into a single entity, and
National Express on the renegotiation of the contractual arrangements between Railtrack, the Eurostar and the developer of the high speed rail link between London and the English Channel.

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