Maritime Zone Delimitation

• UNCLOS 1982 provisions.
  
• Format for claims to UN Commission on
  the limits of the continental shelf.
  
• Technical aspects of the law of the sea.
  
• Preparation of Technical Negotiating Briefs.
  
• Geodetic Concepts, use and limitations.
  
• Tidal datums.
  
• Land survey vertical and horizontal datums.
  
• Contemporary and classical hydrographic techniques.
  
• Production and use of nautical charts and their limitations.
  
• Marine Geology and Geophysical survey methods.
  

• Reviewed Maritime Limits of SW Pacific Island States for major Oil Company.
  
• Review of Maritime Zone limits and legislation for Small Island Developing State.
  
• Preparation of technical negotiating briefs for maritime boundaries.
  
• Advice to Boundary Consultant to Middle Eastern State on hydrographic survey requirements for maritime boundary delineation and tidal datums.
  
• Lectured in UNCLOS and Maritime Zone delimitation to undergraduate and post graduate courses.
  
• Advice provided to Federal State Government on challenging redefined inter-state maritime boundaries (2004).
  
• Preparation of Expressions of Interest which secured client short-listing for three continental shelf surveys (2003 & 2004).
  
• Tender negotiations for extended continental shelf delimitation and formation of consortium to undertake necessary works to prepare coastal state’s submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (2005).
  
• Retained as Hydrographic Expert by consultants advising two coastal states on preparation of their claims to an extended continental shelf (ECS) under provisions of art.76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and other general obligations and benefits arising from ratification of the Convention. Project concluded with the organisation of a workshop on methodology for the preparation and submission of claims to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). (2005-7).
  
• Facilitated tender submission for desktop study into the delimitation of the continental shelf of a coastal state in accordance with CLCS-11 and the provisions of article 76 of UNCLOS 1982 (2005).
  
• In collaboration with others prequalified to submit a tender for provision of consultancy services to assist a coastal state in the preparation and presentation of its claim to an Extended Continental Shelf to the CLCS. (2007).