Aberdeen has been producing and innovating in oil and gas since the 1960s. It provides exceptional innovation alongside a highly evolving regulated industry. The city of Aberdeen is known as the European capital of oil and gas extraction and it is a worldwide hub of professionals and FTSE 100 companies involved in this industry. Mineral extraction is vital to our life. It provides energy, transport, raw materials to produce everyday goods, and newer methods of extraction in the harshest environments on earth. It cannot function without a legal framework of environmental, contractual regulation and licensing. An oil and gas lawyer is able to provide guidance and advise across the supply chain in a well remunerated area of law.

Graduates of the LLM Oil & Gas Law have gone on to wide variety of careers in industry, in international law firms and in Government Ministries.