Professional background
Emily Tetley-Jones advises industrial and energy clients on real estate matters, with a particular focus on energy infrastructure and onshore downstream assets used to process, store and distribute fuel (especially pipelines).
Her clients include the British Pipelines Agency, acting for pipeline owners including United Kingdom Oil Pipelines Limited, West London Pipeline and Storage Limited and Walton-Gatwick Pipeline Company Limited, as well as the British Oxygen Company, Interconnector UK Limited, Prax (in liquidation), Marchwood Power Limited and Perenco UK Limited.
Emily advises on the real estate aspects of onshore fuel assets and related infrastructure, including pipeline rights, land access and occupation arrangements, and fuel storage and terminal sites.
Emily has particular expertise in energy infrastructure and pipeline assets, including:
- Securing, diverting and varying linear land rights, including extensive experience with unregistered pipeline easements and deeds of grant
- Negotiating leases, easements and associated rights for private pipelines and fuel storage facilities
- Agreeing crossing and interface arrangements, whether by private treaty or through development consent processes
- Protective provisions and safeguarding strategies in Development Consent Order (DCO) regimes
Relevant Publications include:
- Financial Times: Letter: Existing storage sites can be used to curb emissions
- The New Civil Engineer: The great connectivity logjam | New Civil Engineer
- Estates Gazette: I’m gonna get myself connected: upgrading the UK’s power grid | Estates Gazette
Education
Notable deals
- Leading negotiations on a tripartite novation and variation for fuel terminal processing infrastructure for BPA/UKOP.
- Negotiating a renewal deed of grant of easement for a hydrogen pipeline in Teesside, involving multiple stakeholders and complex land rights.
- Securing protective provisions for clients including UKOP, BOC and Natara Chemicals across a number of Development Consent Orders, including:
- Gatwick – Northern Runway Extension DCO
- Hynet North West Carbon Dioxide Pipeline DCO
- H2Teesside DCO
- Advising BPA/UKOP on the Norwich–Tilbury Strategic Transmission Reinforcement DCO. This has so far included:
- securing a change request to the draft order (covering the order limits and rights and the stated identity of the undertaker) to address requirements for AC mitigation;
- negotiating a co-operation agreement and statement of common ground
- agreeing works phasing and operational safeguards, as well as interface agreements (short and long term)
- agreeing and option agreements and land/access rights to be secured by private treaty for mitigation infrastructure, aligned with existing pipeline leases.
- Currently advising (or instructed by) energy clients, as affected parties, on the following DCOs:
- Fosse Green Energy (actively negotiating mitigations and protective provisions)
- Lighthouse Green Fuels (project planning for new infrastructure / protective provisions for existing infrastructure)
- Heathrow Airport Expansion (pre-application stage: project planning for fuel supply requirements)
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