CONTACT DETAILS
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Contact Email: robert@resourceslaw.net
Background
Robert Pritchard is managing director of ResourcesLaw International, a Sydney-based law and consulting firm specialising in the energy industry.
Robert has been intensively involved in policy, privatisation and regulatory matters, as well as in development projects relating to oil, gas, coal, uranium, renewable energy, alumina, aluminium, independent power, gas pipelines, electricity transmission and energy technologies, including coal liquefaction and coal refining.
International Experience
Robert has 40 years' experience as a legal adviser and independent consultant, representing government and private sector clients in all facets of the upstream and downstream sectors of the energy industry and advising on many joint ventures and strategic alliances.
Robert is an adviser to many government agencies, utilities, multinational corporations and other private sector investors. His clients have included, at various times BP, the Central Electricity Generating Board and National Coal Board of the UK, Kobe Steel, Japan Alumina Associates and the New Energy Development and Industrial Technology Organisation of Japan.
Since 2000 he has been a regular consultant to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Energy Working Group on electricity industry reform, cross-border gas and power trade, gas pipelines, LNG trade and energy security.
World Energy Council
Robert has been prominent for a number of years in the affairs of the World Energy Council (WEC). His involvement includes:
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A member of the WEC Finance Committee since 1998
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A member of the WEC Commission on Energy for Tomorrow's World (1999-2000) which produced ten energy policy recommendations for world governments
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Technical Director of the 2004 World Energy Congress.
Affiliations
Robert is also:
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Executive director of APGAS Ltd (convenor of the APEC Gas Forum)
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Chairman Emeritus of the International Bar Association Section on Energy Law
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A Trustee Emeritus of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia
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A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy
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Treasurer of the Australian Energy Alliance
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A member of the external faculty of the Centre for Energy Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP), University of Dundee, Scotland
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A member of the editorial board of the International Energy Law and Taxation Review, Sweet & Maxwell, London
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A senior consultant with Piper Alderman, a major Australian law firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
