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This book analyses the legal obstacles associated with the advancement of unitization processes and procedures at a national, domestic level. The volume will be of interest to practitioners, scholars and students in the field of natural resource law, international law and unitization.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Concepts and Principles1. Introduction
2. Ownership of Resources, Rule of Capture and Government Approvals
3. Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements
Part II: Case Studies4. Unitization in Brazil: Conflicting Legal Regimes & Non-Unitized Areas Experience
5. Unitization in Canada
6. Ghana
7. Mexico
8. Unitization in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry
9. Unitization in Norway
10. Unitization in the United Kingdom
11. United States of America
Part III: Conclusion12. Negotiating risk-free Unitization and Joint Document Agreements: Summary and Options for Policymakers
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Eduardo G. Pereira is a globally recognized scholar specialising in natural resources and energy law. He has been active in the natural resources and energy industry for more than 15 years and is an international expert on oil, gas and energy contracts and regulations with practical experience in over 50 jurisdictions. He holds positions as a full-time, part-time, honorary, adjunct, research fellow and/or visiting scholar in a number of leading academic institutions around the world. He is also the author/editor of several leading oil and gas textbooks.
Marianthi Pappa is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham. She specializes in international law of the sea, and energy and natural resources law. She holds an LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and an LLM in oil and gas law and a PhD in international law of the sea, both from the University of Aberdeen. Before joining academia, she practiced law in Greece and Cyprus in finance and energy. Marianthi is a fellow in the UK Higher Education Academy. She also delivers training workshops to governmental and business organizations on boundary disputes and energy law.
Damilola S. Olawuyi holds a doctorate (DPhil) in energy and environmental law from the University of Oxford and an LLM from Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He is an associate professor of energy and environment law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law; a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and China University of Political Science and Law; a senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies; and a Herbert Smith Freehills visiting professor at Cambridge University. He is also the Chancellor's Fellow and Director of the OGEES Institute, Afe Babalola University.
