Profile

Before joining Clifford Chance, Skyner worked as leading legal counsel at Statoil responsible for upstream projects with its Russian partners, such as the development of the Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea, various offshore and onshore oil exploration projects with Rosneft, and the West Qurna II oil - field development in Iraq. Previous to that he worked for the law firm Wikborg Rein as part of their shipping & offshore practice, and as senior counsel at Petroleum Geo-Services. In his practice he has therefore advised both from the 'contractor' and the 'client' perspectives on different stages of the development of oil & gas projects.