[Date: Month/Day/Year]

The Letter of Intent on Bidding Participation (draft)

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation

2-10-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo
105-0001, JAPAN

For the attention of Mr Kenji Akiyoshi

Officer in charge of contract
Executive Director
Oil & Gas Upstream Business Unit

[Address]
[Name of Applicant]
[Name of representing person]

We hereby present this Letter of Intent on bidding participation to express our intent of
participation in the competition for “Legal Consultation on Oil and Gas E & P Projects” in 2015
Japanese fiscal year.

For the participation, we would like to inform you of our complete sufficiency to the
Requirements of JOGMEC as the “The List for Sufficiency of Requirements” (including further
attachment thereto and hereafter referred to as the “List) attached.

We hereby acknowledge the important notice regarding the disclosure of the information on the
contracting stated in the public announcement and committed our cooperation to JOGMEC on
this effect if necessary.

Statement

1. Corporate outline (Attach Company brochure or other appropriate explanatory documents)

2. Technical capability (Fill in the List and attach the supporting documents to the List.
Comprehensive and specific technical capability shall be reviewed by the List. If there are any
other special items to be expressed, they must be written herein.)

3. The record of providing this service or this kind of service (Fill in the List and attach
supporting documents to the List. Principally, these requirements shall be reviewed on
attachment to the List. If there are any other special facts to be expressed, they must be written
herein.）

*Status of satisfying Requirements stated in the public announcement must be written.

*Paper size： A4. This confirmation can be accompanied by any attachment and related
documents.
 “The List for Sufficiency of Requirements” :
The attachment for the Letter of the Intent on bidding participation

“The List for Sufficiency of Requirements”.

Format for official announcement “Legal Consultation on Oil and Gas E & P Projects” in 2015 Japanese
fiscal year (April 2015 to March 2016)

Essential Requirements Answer

1. Natural person or legal entity (hereafter referred to as “Person”) who Whether or not
does not come under Article 3 of "The Public announcement on the
qualifications for participating in the tendering procedures by the
Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation", dated 19
December, 2014”.
2. Person who does not receive administrative disposition on suspension Whether or not
of either i) receiving the subsidy by Japanese government or
governmental agency or ii) designating bidders related to contract
and contracting activities.
3. For Japanese Person, Person who is qualified as “A” or “B” or “C” in Status of JOGMEC qualification
the category of “Investigation/Research” of “Service provider” for for participating competition
general competition participant in relation to the manufacturing or (Copy of qualification must be
sales of commodity for Japanese fiscal year 2013, 2014 and 2015 attached)
pursuant to the article 7 of the JOGMEC contracting handling rule ---Date of the obtaining
and provisions of JOGMEC handling rule for review of qualification qualification (m/d/y)：
of tender participants. ---Number：
4. For foreign Person, Person who has sound financial base to render Material to be attached
services and enable to guarantee the contents of report.
5. Person who is willing to co-operate the conditions of disclosure policy Yes or no
of JOGMEC.
6. Person who is able to make research, recommendation and proposal Introduction of similar task in
based on its due understanding of Japanese Incorporated the past, etc
Administration Agency system in terms of its legal restriction,
position and role;
7. Person who understands that the services may require performing in Introduction of similar task in
concerted effort with other JOGMEC consultants and accepts flexibly the past, etc
that JOGMEC may order coordinated efforts
8. Person who accepts and concludes contract having conditions that: Acceptable or not
a) remuneration is fee-for-service system;
b) there is no provision on advance payment, mobilization fee or
minimum service volume guarantee;
c) there is a termination clause anytime with advance notice;
d) JOGMEC does not bear the cost of familiarization in the
beginning
e) If the Person has a fault caused by negligence without
confirmation of past disclosed incidents, JOGMEC is able to
cancel the invoice during that period of work and also to ask to
be reimbursed the paid amount.
9. Person who well acknowledges the importance of invoicing procedure Acceptable or not
of JOGMEC and is able to accommodate flexibly the requirement on
invoicing by JOGMEC
10. Person who can deal and report essentially utilizing English of Yes or no
commercial level of proficiencies
Characteristic Requirements
Answer
1. Management system for the Work in relation to the East Siberian We either satisfy or undertake to
projects contains the group consisted of lawyers who have a plenty of perform the requirements stated
knowledge about the Russian Company Law, the Tax Law, the in the left column.
Subsoil Law and each legislative system. （to be stated or stated in the
2. Regarding other international projects, person who provides the attachment the name of entity,
service for JOGMEC in territory of Japan. business category, registered
address of headquarters,
organization chart, name and
resume of responsible
3. Person who owns the system enable to provide the services person(s) and main individuals
instantaneously (overnight duty during the negotiation in principle) in relevant to the Requirements,
relation to the British Law or the Common Law and the Russian Law and the reason why the applicant
(Person owns approximately 20 lawyers at least, in relation to the is able to collect information
British Law and the Russian Law, and in relation to the British Law naturally on anonymous manner.
or the Common Law in Japan each for emergency response). Please note in principle legal
consulting should not be scope
4. Work in relation to East Siberia should be in charge of the Persons
who are in Russian territory and they are possible to cope with the of these services）
tasks in Irkutsk and Moscow in case of necessity.
5.The group based in Russia contains the specialists who have enough
experiences of negotiations with oil companies in East Siberia,
profound knowledge in this sphere, have the talent to establish the
relation of mutual trust and are able to make communication in
Russian.
6.Management system for the Work contains not only the group
consisted of lawyers who are specialized in oil and gas upstream
business in the territory of Japan, but also the world wide network
which is active anytime.
7.JOGMEC is able to discuss directly with the lawyers of the applicable
law in case of necessity.