Training and tools that enable procurement, contracts, commercial and technical professionals to read and understand contract terms, shape commercial positions and take an informed, active role in negotiations.
We provide various types of contractual support, from identifying areas of weakness to guidance on the drafting and preparation of commercial contract templates, including terms and conditions and all manner of contractual and procurement documentation ensuring fair and balanced industry focused results. We help our clients create libraries of documents, streamlining future approaches to drafting and negotiating contracts. In addition, we also assist businesses with their contractual disputes, with particular expertise in resolving the same relating to revenue generating contracts and procurement transactions.
Oil and Gas Consultants provides Tender Support and Bid Review Services as well as unique training courses devoted to raising quality of bids in the region. Oil and Gas Consultants has extensive experience advising on both drafting tenders and responding to the same. To date our consultants have reviewed and advised on bids exceeding USD 1bln. Our Tender Support and Bid Review Services aid our clients to better respond to bids and in doing so significantly improve their chances of success in the bidding process.
Oil and Gas Consultants offers unique training programs, designed specifically for upstream oil and gas professionals. We align programs with business goals of our customers, delivering enhanced knowledge and providing an excellent return against our clients’ training budgets. OGC portfolio includes various training programs on all aspects of contracting and bidding in oil and gas as well as vast coverage of procurement related topics. Our most popular topics are “Terms and Conditions Masterclass” (for non-legal backgrounds), “Contract Allocation Risk Procedure” and “How to Write Winning Bids”. We trained major industry players over the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Delivering empowering talent development solutions for all personnel of supply chain and procurement teams
Preparing, drafting, negotiating, improving any terms of your contract in upstream oil and gas
Creating amazing training to equip every member of your staff with essential business skill
Delivering tailored training for procurement teams to take over review of contract terms from legal departments
Creating the most efficient set of contract templates and contract related procedures for your business
Delivering tailored training for commercial and procurement teams to take over review of contract terms from legal departments
Delivering empowering talent development solutions for all personnel of supply chain and procurement teams
Preparing, drafting, negotiating, improving any terms of your contract in upstream oil and gas
Creating amazing training to equip every member of your staff with essential business skill
Delivering tailored training for procurement teams to take over review of contract terms from legal departments
Creating the most efficient set of contract templates and contract related procedures for your business
Delivering tailored training for commercial and procurement teams to take over review of contract terms from legal departments
«People I have worked with, have inspired me to create training solutions that bridge the gap that often exists between lawyers and contract professionals. I fully understand (from both a lawyer’s and contract professional’s perspective) that cooperation and open collaboration between these two groups is absolutely key to the successful conclusion of projects. In order to best achieve this, it is crucial to ensure that contract teams are given the necessary tools to draft, review and negotiate contract terms and conditions, and it is in this area that I hold the necessary skills to assist through the training that I provide»
Olga Labai — Director, Oil and Gas Consultants
«People I have worked with, have inspired me to create training solutions that bridge the gap that often exists between lawyers and contract professionals. I fully understand (from both a lawyer’s and contract professional’s perspective) that cooperation and open collaboration between these two groups is absolutely key to the successful conclusion of projects. In order to best achieve this, it is crucial to ensure that contract teams are given the necessary tools to draft, review and negotiate contract terms and conditions, and it is in this area that I hold the necessary skills to assist through the training that I provide»
Olga Labai — CEO OGC Consultants
Olga Labai founded OGC after repeatedly seeing capable procurement, contracts, commercial and operational professionals disempowered by the very contracts through which they were expected to deliver business results. That conviction was shaped by more than two decades working across the upstream oil and gas industry. Her experience spans operator-side work on the Sakhalin-2 project; contractor-side legal and operational support for Weatherford’s Iraq and Kurdistan operations; consultancy for upstream oil and gas businesses, including through Deloitte; procurement and EPC work; and operator-side offshore drilling in the Middle East and Mexico.
A weak contract does not stay in the procurement department. It shows up at the rig.
Upstream contracts are not blank pages. The industry has spent decades developing standards, precedents and risk-allocation logic. Yet foundational positions are often revisited more than necessary, particularly when legal, procurement, commercial and operational teams bring different priorities to the same contract. Olga repeatedly saw commercial provisions—including termination, warranties, payment, liabilities and performance remedies—passed to legal for review while negotiations stopped and business teams waited. The knowledge often existed, but it was not embedded effectively in templates, approval systems, negotiations and day-to-day decisions.
The industry does not lack contract knowledge. Too often, that knowledge fails to reach the people making the commercial decisions.
Olga rejects the idea that understanding contract terms and conditions should belong exclusively to lawyers. Procurement, commercial, business-development, contract-management and technical professionals do not need to become lawyers. But they must be able to open a contract, understand its terms and commercial consequences, identify the questions that matter, question the terms, negotiate with authority and recognise when specialist legal advice is genuinely required.
Our goal is better-informed ownership of the contracting process across procurement, commercial, operational and technical teams.
OGC was established in 2014 to turn that accumulated knowledge into practical, upstream-specific training, tools and systems. OGC helps professionals move from referring every clause to legal to participating intelligently in the contracting process—understanding the language, assessing the risk, challenging unsuitable positions and negotiating with authority.
Olga Labai founded OGC after repeatedly seeing capable procurement, contracts, commercial and operational professionals disempowered by the very contracts through which they were expected to deliver business results. That conviction was shaped by more than two decades working across the upstream oil and gas industry. Her experience spans operator-side work on the Sakhalin-2 project; contractor-side legal and operational support for Weatherford’s Iraq and Kurdistan operations; consultancy for upstream oil and gas businesses, including through Deloitte; procurement and EPC work; and operator-side offshore drilling in the Middle East and Mexico.
A weak contract does not stay in the procurement department. It shows up at the rig.
Upstream contracts are not blank pages. The industry has spent decades developing standards, precedents and risk-allocation logic. Yet foundational positions are often revisited more than necessary, particularly when legal, procurement, commercial and operational teams bring different priorities to the same contract. Olga repeatedly saw commercial provisions—including termination, warranties, payment, liabilities and performance remedies—passed to legal for review while negotiations stopped and business teams waited. The knowledge often existed, but it was not embedded effectively in templates, approval systems, negotiations and day-to-day decisions.
The industry does not lack contract knowledge. Too often, that knowledge fails to reach the people making the commercial decisions.
Olga rejects the idea that understanding contract terms and conditions should belong exclusively to lawyers. Procurement, commercial, business-development, contract-management and technical professionals do not need to become lawyers. But they must be able to open a contract, understand its terms and commercial consequences, identify the questions that matter, question the terms, negotiate with authority and recognise when specialist legal advice is genuinely required. Industry standards and model contracts are an important part of this capability: they preserve decades of contracting experience and risk-allocation logic, while remaining flexible enough to require informed application and commercial judgment.
Our goal is better-informed ownership of the contracting process across procurement, commercial, operational and technical teams.
OGC was established in 2014 to turn that accumulated knowledge into practical, upstream-specific training, tools and systems. OGC helps professionals move from referring every clause to legal to participating intelligently in the contracting process—understanding the language, assessing the risk, challenging unsuitable positions and negotiating with authority. The objective is not to remove lawyers from contracting, but to use legal expertise where it adds the greatest value while strengthening commercial ownership among the professionals responsible for delivering the deal.
In providing these courses she is able to utilise the wealth of knowledge developed whilst a practising lawyer working hand-in-hand with contract managers and the like in the oil and gas business.
Olga is a fluent English and Russian speaker and a graduate of the State Federal University of Russia, holding a degree in International Law.
“Olga is a professional legal instructor who can deliver the information in the right way. She has a good background and experience which needed to add a value to the audience…”
“I recently attended Olga’s course Understanding Contractual Terms and Conditions at Maersk Training Centre in Dubai South. It was a great experience learnin g from someone with a clear passion for the subject, and an interesting background in the in“dustry. This course is highly recommended for people that deal with contracts on a regular basis but do not have the necessary legal background to confidently manage it. Looking forward to future related courses…”
“I attended 2 day training on “Understanding Terms and Conditions in the Contract” with Olga, one day of which covered commercial part of the contract (legal theory of LDs, payment provisions, termination/suspension, SoW etc.) and second day covered all the legal contractual concepts (indemnity, liability, consequential and catastrophic losses) …”
“I attended 2 day training on “Understanding Terms and Conditions in the Contract” with Olga, one day of which covered commercial part of the contract (legal theory of LDs, payment provisions, termination/suspension, SoW etc.) and second day covered all the legal contractual concepts (indemnity, liability, consequential and catastrophic losses) …”
“Olga’s insights and excellent delivery helped us to understand the legal and regulatory issues around JV agreements. I would gladly recommend Olga to any organization that is interested in improving the legal aspect of its business.”
“Olga delivered in-house contract course for my team, we went through newly drafted Revenue Generating Contract Procedure and covered many contractual concepts like liabilities, indemnities, special (catastrophic) events etc. I enjoyed Olga’s style of delivery, all the exercises, engagement and interaction. Recommended!”
Olga is an excellent teacher. Her broad knowledge on overall contracting chains in the LNG Industry, give us opportunity even to learn and discuss with her on matters beyond the course in the subject. Her energetic teaching style keeps all students remain attentive to the course topic under discussion… read more
