LinkedinSimon is one of the UK’s leading legal experts in the offshore energy industry. He has extensive experience advising on offshore energy projects worldwide including the disputes arising from such projects.
He is the co-author of Offshore Construction Law and Practice and Offshore Floating Production, Legal and Commercial Risk Management.
Simon’s insurance experience includes providing clients with advice on policy wordings and coverage and he has particular expertise in all forms of marine and energy insurance policies. He has developed some innovative insurance policies (including a USD excess control of well wording) and also worked on some high value insurance coverage disputes.
Simon is very experienced at managing disputes whether in arbitration (ICC, LCIA, LMAA, ad hoc) or litigation and has managed cases all the way through to the Supreme Court in England & Wales where he represented the successful insurers in the “B Atlantic”.
Simon has received recognition for his work. He was the Law Society Solicitor of the Year in 2018 and a Thompson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyer in 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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