Get Yemen (and Women) Outta There: Force Majeure Claims under English law, and in ICC Case 19299/MCP (“Gujurat v The Republic of Yemen”)
Background Earlier this July, a regional militant group calling itself ‘the Avengers’ was reported to have detonated some pipelines in Nigeria’s Qua Iboe, the country’s largest export stream. Shortly afterwards, ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), declared force majeure on its exports of crude oil in Qua Iboe. The world, as we know, has become…