All parties can agree to renegotiate Esso petroleum contract
Alastair Routledge, Esso’s latest country manager, has been reported in the press as saying that ExxonMobil cannot renegotiate the Petroleum Agreement because of ‘sanctity of contract.’ That is not correct. Article 31.2 of the Petroleum Agreement says: “This Agreement shall not be amended or modified in any respect except by written agreement entered into by…