LinkedinSimon Moore is an internationally recognised offshore energy lawyer and Partner at Adams & Moore Solicitors. For over two decades, he has advised global energy companies, offshore contractors, shipowners and insurers on offshore construction, shipping and marine/ energy insurance, and complex commercial dispute resolution. His practice spans the entire lifecycle of offshore energy infrastructure, focusing on the construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of both fixed and floating oil, gas, and offshore wind facilities. Simon is a leading legal authority on managing overlapping technical, contractual, and insurance risks in high-value offshore engineering projects.
Global Project Experience
Simon has provided strategic legal counsel and dispute resolution services on major offshore energy projects, fixed and floating, worldwide, including:
North Sea & Europe: Balder, North-West Hutton, Beatrice, and Seagreen (North Sea); Provence Grande Large (France).
Africa: Agbami, Usan, Egina, Senje Berge and Akpo (Nigeria); Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana); Pazflor, Clov, Mafumeira Sul and Beguela-Belize (Angola), Venus (Nambia) and Coral Sul (Mozambique);
Middle East: Upper Zakum (Abu Dhabi).
Americas & Gulf of Mexico: BP Thunder Horse and BP Mad Dog (Gulf of Mexico); GranMorgu (Suriname); One Guyana (Guyana); Trion (Mexico); Frade and Espirito Santo (Brazil).
Asia-Pacific: Ichthys (Australia).
International Dispute Resolution & Litigation
Simon represents clients in high-stakes international arbitration (ICC, LCIA, LMAA) and High Court litigation, with key experience in EPC, EPCI, BIMCO charterparties and insurance disputes.
Simon’s litigation experience includes experience in the Commercial Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He successfully represented insurers in the Supreme Court case of the B Atlantic.
Industry Training & Publications
BIMCO: Simon leads specialized training for BIMCO on offshore construction and shipbuilding.
Simon is a published author on offshore energy projects, decommissioning, and insurance:
Offshore Construction Law and Practice (Routledge)
Offshore Floating Production (Informa Law/Routledge)
Oil and Gas Decommissioning (Globe Law and Business)
Co-Assureds in Marine and Energy Insurance (NYSBA)
Industry Recognition & Awards
Law Society Awards: Solicitor of the Year (2018).
Thomson Reuters: Recognized as a Stand-Out Lawyer (2023).
Recent Experience
- Advising an insurer on a USD 1 billion claim for loss of production following the failure on the main bearing on a FPSO offshore West Africa.
- Acting for the underwriters in a high value and heavily contested coverage dispute under a marine war risks policy. This high profile case, B Atlantic, was appealed to the Court of Appeal and then to the Supreme Court and ended with a judgement (and costs award) fully in underwriters’ favour.
- Advising on an insurance claim for damage to FPSO risers.
- Advising a SURF Contractor on its claim under an EPIC Contract relating to delays and design changes on a FPSO project in South America.
- Advising an oil company on a non-binding expert determination procedure employed to resolve disputes arising out of a project for the development of a 1,000,000 bpd oil field.
- Advising an oil company on a dispute relating to suspension of work and non-payment of hire following a number of health and safety incidents on board a drilling rig.
- Advising an offshore contractor on claims for additional remuneration and a schedule extension arising out of changes in law.
- Advising on numerous high value disputes arising from the long-term hire of a 30 year old drilling rig offshore South America.
- Advising on claims arising out of damage to a pipleline due to it being dropped during its installation in the GoM.
- Advising on disputes arising out of FPSO conversion contracts and contracts for life extension works.
- Advising on claim under a WELCAR policy in respect of a module dropped during construction.
- Advising on a coverage dispute relating to damage to wind turbine structures during transit following the collapse of a crane on a vessel.
- Advising on substantial warranty insurance claims in relation to defects discovered on a recently completed FPSO.
- Advising on a number of constructive total loss claims under war risks policies arising from detentions of vessels for a variety of reasons, including smuggling, illegal bunkering, collisions with loss of life and failures to comply with local laws and regulations
- Advising on a dispute relating to damage to a generator on a power barge.
- Advising on a coverage dispute on a delay in start up policy for a gas fired power station under construction in West Africa.
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"Simon Moore has an innate sense of what the clients want"
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