Andy Russell is North Oil Company’s (NOC’s) general counsel, he heads NOC’s legal and governance division and is a core member of NOC’s top management team. He has well over a decade of experience in the oil and gas sector.

He joined NOC in 2017, shortly after the company began operating the field. Prior to joining NOC, he worked for a number of years in private practice as an oil and gas solicitor in Scotland, where he carried out a variety of upstream and service sector oil and gas legal work, including various in-house secondments with companies in the UK and Middle East.

He is proud to be a practising Scottish qualified solicitor, registered with the Law Society of Scotland, and Notary Public with seal registered at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Andy is passionate about developing others and self-development. He encourages all lawyers to do more to really understand themselves, the business they work in, and generally become a key business partner and more than a lawyer.

He encourages his team to do things like get involved in non-legal matters, learn about new topics, act as a business champion or trainer for topics like safety culture or cybersecurity, or go on an offshore trip to see how the business really works, when they have the chance.

He is motivated by supporting and helping to develop the company, his team and colleagues, and his family and friends.

Andy continues to look forward to embracing new topics, technologies, and ways of working, over the next few years so that the legal team can continue to add value to NOC’s business and respond to the ever-changing remit of an inhouse legal team: beyond just being a team of lawyers!