About Gunnar Espeland

Gunnar Espeland is a partner and the head of Simonsen Vogt Wiig’s Stavanger office. He specialises in upstream oil and gas, and has more than 15 years’ experience as in-house and external legal counsel for greenfield and brownfield energy development projects, onshore and offshore construction, and decommissioning projects. His practice includes corporate and M&A, tie-ins and third-party access agreements, advice on operator’s safety and preparedness, IPR contracts and digitalisation. He was a member of the negotiating committee on behalf of the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association on the update of the Norwegian industry model contracts for oil and gas construction (EPCI model contracts).