TULLOW GHANA LTD V VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE SAS

[2025] EWHC 3059 (Comm), King's Bench Division, Commercial Court, Nigel Cooper KC, 20 November 2025

Contracts – Breach – Contract for supply of tubing to oil wells – Formation of contract – Incorporation of terms – Battle of the forms – Last shot – Construction – Implied terms – Satisfactory quality – Sale of Goods Act 1979

The claimant Tullow Ghana (TG) and the defendant Vallourec Oil & Gas (VOG) entered into a contract for the supply of 7-inch VAM top tubing for delivery CFR Takoradi on 25 November 2008.