Shu Ching Tam
Shu Ching is an Of Counsel in the Singapore energy team.
Shu Ching is an energy lawyer with more than a decade of experience advising on complex cross border energy transactions across Southeast Asia, North Asia, and the Middle East. Shu Ching specialises in complex energy transactions across the full energy value chain, with particular depth in LNG and a growing focus on new and low‑carbon energies.
She advises national and international oil companies, utilities, trading houses and investors on upstream asset transactions, LNG sale and purchase arrangements, downstream M&A and commercial arrangements, and investments in hydrogen, ammonia and carbon capture projects.
Shu Ching was previously a senior in-house attorney on the Mozambique LNG Project with TotalEnergies (then Anadarko). She has also spent time on secondment to Chevron’s Asia, Europe, Middle East & Africa Legal department in Singapore where she was involved in all aspects of Chevron’s downstream business in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
Publications
Shu Ching is a contributing author to the fourth edition of Liquefied Natural Gas: The Law and Business of LNG, which was published in September 2024.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- KOGAS in relation to various long-term LNG SPAs and master sale and purchase agreements
- JERA on various long-term LNG SPAs
- Mitsui on investments and joint ventures in the LNG and new energies sectors, including low-carbon ammonia projects and related offtake agreements
- PTTEP on a long-term LNG SPA
- Summit on its long-term LNG supply arrangements
- a bidder on the potential acquisition participating interest in a portfolio of CCS assets in Europe
- Mitsubishi Corporation on its investment in Malaysia LNG Dua and Tiga
- divestment of OMV's stake in the Ghasha concession, located in the UAE, to Lukoil
- Petrochina in relation to its participation in Blocks 14 and 15 in Suriname with state-owned Staatsolie, and related PSCs and JOA
- a multinational oil & gas company on its procurement of low carbon ammonia from a greenfield project and potential sale into North Asia
- various clients on aspects of their downstream business and related joint venture arrangements including transactions relating to refining, storage, distribution, marketing, and retail of petroleum products, divestment and acquisition of refinery assets, brand licencing and product offtake agreements
- TotalEnergies (previously Anadarko), as a senior in-house lawyer, advised on the project's long-term LNG SPAs leading up to FID as well as the project's master sale and purchase agreements and vessel procurement process
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