Sharon Wilson advises participants in the oil and gas, power and mining sectors in Australia and Asia.

Sharon advises on project development and structuring, acquisitions and divestments, marketing and transportation arrangements, construction contracts and project bankability within the energy and resources sector.

Her experience includes advising:  

LNG

• Santos Limited on the development of the Gladstone LNG Project.
• ConocoPhillips Australia on its participation in the Sunrise LNG project and on the development of Bayu-Undan field in the Timor Sea and the Darwin LNG facility.
• CNOOC Gas & Power on aspects of its acquisition of an interest in Queensland Curtis LNG project with BG International.
• the North West Shelf Joint Venture on the sale of a 5% equity interest in the Australian North West Shelf China LNG Joint Venture to CNOOC Limited.
• Asian utilities and trading companies on long term and spot LNG offtake arrangements.
• Australian LNG sellers on LNG sale and purchase agreements.

Upstream oil and gas

• Woodside Energy on the sale of its interests in the Otway Gas Project to Origin Energy and Benaris International, including operator transfer arrangements.
• APA Group on gas storage arrangements for the Mondarra gas storage facility.
• an FPSO provider on disputes relating to an FPSO charter contract in the Timor Sea.
• Japan Energy Australia (now JX) on exploration and farmin activities.
• a Korean and Indian consortium in relation to all aspects of the development of offshore gas fields in the Bay of Bengal.
• MedcoEnergi on the disposal of a package of Indonesian upstream assets.
• PetroleumBRUNEI on the restructure of PSC interests in Block M, Brunei Darussalam.
• OMV New Zealand as operator on the development of the Maari oil field, New Zealand.
• Mizuho Bank on the financing of Mitsui’s and AWE's interest in the development of the Casino Gas Project.
• OMV Australia on the Sole (Patricia Baleen Extension) Gas Project in Bass Strait and the sale of Basin Oil to Santos.
• Paladin Oil & Gas on its acquisition of BHP Billiton's interest in the Laminaria and Corralina oil fields, Timor Sea.
• a Japanese trading company on the potential acquisition of an interest in an FPSO located in the Timor Sea.

Power, water and petrochemicals

• an EPC Contractor on the development of a coal fired power plant in Turkey.
• a Malaysian company on the development of the project financed Rajdhani hydro-electric power plant in Pakistan. 
• Brunei Methanol Company (a consortium comprising PetroleumBrunei, Itochu and Mitsubishi Gas Chemicals) on the development of the project financed Sungai Liang methanol plant in Brunei Darussalem.
• a Japanese trading company as sponsor on its bid for the development of a desalination plant in Saudi Arabia.
• Water Corporation on a long term wind farm power purchase agreement with Western Power.
• Western Power (now Horizon Power) on the Regional Power Procurement Processes for the Esperance, West Kimberley and Exmouth regions.

Minerals

• a Japanese trading company on its investment in Laos bauxite mine and host government arrangements.
• a consortium of Korean companies on the acquisition of a shares in a mining concession holder of a copper mine in South East Asia.
• JFE Steel on the acquisition of a 20% interest in the BHP Billiton operated JFE Western 4 iron ore joint venture (Western Australia) and on long term iron ore sales agreements with BHP Billiton Pilbara region joint ventures.

She is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and a solicitor and barrister in Western Australia. Sharon is proficient in spoken and written Japanese at an intermediate level and has worked in Japan for a leading international law firm.

Sharon has published and presented papers for AMPLA and the International Bar Association.  She is also the author of a chapter on buying & selling upstream assets in the text ‘Oil and Gas – A Practical Handbook’ by Globe Law and Business. Sharon is recognised in the energy and resources category of the 2010-11 Asia Pacific Legal 500.