Peter Vaughan is an energy specialist with over 20 years of experience on major projects and transactions in the upstream and LNG sector. Peter advises on project development and M&A across the sector, including on structuring equity aspects of projects, project documentation as well as on off-take and marketing arrangements, and has deep relevant experience on structuring and utilising oil & gas infrastructure in non-traditional settings. 

Guy Dwyer specialises in environmental, planning, climate change and native title law. He has extensive experience advising clients in the resources sector on securing environmental approvals for major projects and defending judicial review challenges brought by green NGOs to those approvals. Guy has deep knowledge of CCS regulation and has advised on clients on various aspects of CCS. He is published on the subject and his work has been cited in the leading text Carbon Capture and Storage: Emerging Legal and Regulatory Issues. 

Ian Havercroft is the Principal Consultant – Policy, Legal and Regulatory at the Global CCS Institute, and is based in Melbourne, Australia. Ian leads the Institute’s work programme and consultancy activities across the policy, legal and regulatory sectors.  

Ian was previously an academic at University College London’s Faculty of Laws, where he was a Senior Research Fellow and course tutor in environmental law. He co-founded and managed the UCL Carbon Capture Legal Programme between 2007 and 2010. Ian has published widely on the topic of CCS law and regulation and has co-edited two editions of the book ‘Carbon Capture and Storage: Emerging Legal and Regulatory Issues’. In addition to undertaking contracted research for governments and industry, he has also acted as an expert reviewer and adviser to several organisations on CCS policy and legislation, including the International Energy Agency and the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme.  

Ian holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2002. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Melbourne University’s Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (CREEL).