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This book addresses aspects of international law relating to petroleum contracts, examining oil and gas agreements between states and private companies and their intersection with rules of international law.
It provides detailed and insightful coverage of the current practice as well as commentary and analysis based on the authors' extensive experience. The book covers topics such as the nature of international petroleum contracts, petroleum agreements as state contracts, issues of contract stability, the development of bilateral investment treaties, natural resource cycles, political risks and the specific petroleum policies of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Monetary Fund and the International Development Association.
This is a timely and comprehensive book on this important area of law.
List of contents
- 1: Petroleum Contracts: Their subject matter, context and setting
- 2: The Petroleum Industry in Historic Transition: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources
- 3: Petroleum Contracts as State Contracts: Their peculiar nature
- 4: State Contracts in Legal Doctrine: A survey
- 5: Types of Petroleum Contracts and their evolution
- 6: The Law Applicable to Petroleum Contracts
- 7: The Petroleum Business: Main actors and driving forces
- 8: Stabilisation Clauses
- 9: State Contracts: Their stabilisation by way of international arbitration
About the author
Professor Rudolf Dolzer is a Barrister at McNair Chambers, specialising in energy matters, commercial international arbitration, international investment law, and oil and gas. He is former Director of the Institute of International Law, University of Bonn, Germany, former Director General of the Office of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Summary
A detailed and authoritative analysis of aspects of international law relating to petroleum contracts.
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In sum, Petroleum Contracts and International Law offers an excellent introduction to the main legal principles governing the realisation of upstream energy investments that will prove useful to both students of oil and gas law and practitioners.
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In sum, Petroleum Contracts and International Law offers an excellent introduction to the main legal principles governing the realisation of upstream energy investments that will prove useful to both students of oil and gas law and practitioners. Anatole Boute, The Cambridge Law Journal
