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Writings & Teachings

Ruchdi Maalouf LNG Arbitrator

Publications (recent and forthcoming)

My Approach

  • LNG Sales and Trading Contracts in Oil & Gas Contracts, Principles and Practice, 4th edition, Sweet & Maxwell (late 2025)

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  • International LNG contracts (2nd edition), OGEL (late 2025)​

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  • LNG sales agreements: towards commoditization? in The Encyclopaedia of Midstream and Downstream Oil and Gas, 2nd edition, Globe Publishing  (2023)

  • The essential evolution of LNG trading – Moving to GTCs in Journal of World Energy Law and Business, Oxford University Press (2018)

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  • Lebanon’s first offshore licensing round and the prospects of deepwater gas developments in Natural Gas Developments: An International and Challenging Legal Framework, OGEL (2015)

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  • Contractual Issues in International Gas Trade with Peter Roberts, in Research Handbook on International Energy Law, E. Elgar Publishing (2014)​

Courses and Seminars (representative)

My Approach

  • Force Majeure in International Supply Contracts, Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives
    Société de Législation Comparée, Paris, 9 April 2025

    Le gaz naturel liquéfié :  l'amont et l'aval, les ventes et les autres contrats caractéristiques, IFP Course, 2021

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  • LNG: Technical aspects, trade, projects, marketing, contracts and operations, IFP Course, 2019

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  • ​Le droit et l'économie du gaz : Cadre juridique et institutionnel, contrats et ventes, IFP Course, 2019

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  • Programme de renforcement des capacités dans le secteur pétrolier, Course sponsored by the African Legal Support Facility (ADB), 2019

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  • LNG terminals, markets and financing, IFP Course, 2017 and 2018​

  • Evolution in gas and LNG contracts and markets Global Gas Centre Seminar, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, March 2019

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  • Arbitration in the LNG Trade Third Annual Arbitration and Investment Forum in the Bahamas, Seminar, Nassau, 23 January 2015

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  • LNG Pricing, U.S. Department of Commerce Seminar for OGRA (the oil and gas regulator of Pakistan), Singapore, 14 January 2015

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  • LNG Unchained – New project models for the LNG industry, International Gas Union Seminar, 6th PGC C meeting 2012-2015, Bali, 28 April 2015​

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