Shu Ching Tam
Shu Ching is a senior associate in the Singapore energy team.
Shu Ching is an energy lawyer with over a decade of specialist energy transactions experience in a variety of energy-related development projects. She has worked on matters across the energy sector involving traditional oil & gas, LNG, hydrogen and ammonia, with a primary focus on Southeast Asia, North Asia, and the Middle East. Within oil & gas, Shu Ching has particularly specialised experience in LNG.
Shu Ching was previously a senior in-house attorney on the Mozambique LNG Project with TotalEnergies (then Anadarko). She has also spent time on secondment to Chevron’s Asia, Europe, Middle East & Africa Legal department in Singapore where she was involved in all aspects of Chevron’s oil and gas business in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Mitsui on investments and joint ventures in the LNG and new energies sectors, including low-carbon ammonia projects
- JERA on various long term LNG HOAs and SPAs
- PTTEP on a long term LNG SPA
- KOGAS in relation to various long-term off take LNG HOAs and master sale and purchase agreements
- Mitsui on the development of the Ruwais LNG project in Abu Dhabi
- Mitsui on its investment in and offtake from a blue ammonia project in the UAE
- Summit on its long term LNG supply agreements for sale into Bangladesh
- Santos on a potential merger transaction with Woodside
- Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad on a prepayment sale and purchase agreement for crude
- a multinational oil & gas company on its procurement of low carbon ammonia for potential supply into South Korea through the CHPS scheme
- a major SEA oil and gas company on the potential acquisition of CCS assets in Europe
- Mitsubishi Corporation on its investment in Malaysia LNG Dua and Tiga
- Chevron on aspects of its downstream business and related joint venture arrangements in Saudi Arabia
- Petrochina in relation to its participation in Blocks 14 and 15 in Suriname with state-owned Staatsolie, and related PSCs and JOA
- a commodities company on an agreement in relation to purchase of aluminium from Russia and advice on related sanctions and prepayment arrangements
- TotalEnergies (previously Anadarko), as a senior in-house lawyer, advised on the project's long-term LNG SPAs leading up to FID as well as the project's MSPA and vessel procurement process for a fleet of newbuild LNG ships
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