Research Handbook on Oil and Gas Law

Edited by: Tina Soliman Hunter, Madeline Taylor

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What does the future hold for oil and gas, what can we learn from the past, and what role does law have to play in this? Using a unique temporal lens, this Research Handbook examines core themes in oil and gas regulation from historical, contemporary, and forward-looking perspectives.

Structured in three distinct parts, this Handbook begins by detailing the past dominance of oil, charting the role and influence of legal instruments and regulatory regimes governing petroleum. Using a diverse range of case study perspectives over several jurisdictions, the Handbook then turns to oil and gas in the modern world, with critical discussion of current petroleum legal regimes. It concludes with a series of forward-looking chapters that consider the future challenges and opportunities for oil and gas, and how petroleum-dependent states can both regulate and facilitate the age of energy transition.

Surveying the technological shifts of the oil and gas sector through time, this comprehensive Handbook will prove an invigorating read for scholars and students of energy and natural resource law disciplines. Its discussion of emerging technologies and community impact will prove particularly useful to regulators, policymakers, corporations and legal practitioners concerned with the future of energy.

Contents:
PART I: THE PAST – THE DOMINANCE OF OIL
1. Historical perspectives on the global petroleum economy
Tina Soliman Hunter
2. The role and influence of oil concessions on the oil and gas industry
Janan Gibbins
3. The ‘move’ offshore: The progressive development of international law in relation to the access to, and control of, offshore oil and gas resources
Nikolaos Koulouris and Tina Soliman Hunter
4. Development of regulatory regimes for offshore petroleum exploitation: The ‘North American’ and ‘North Sea’ perspectives
Tina Soliman Hunter
PART II: THE PRESENT: OIL AND GAS IN THE MODERN WORLD
5. The role of law in petroleum resource governance and predicting the natural resource paradox in Africa
Eddy Lenusira Wifa and Mostafa Elshazly
6. Asian liquified natural gas markets: The tomorrow will look very different from yesterday
Kim Talus
7. Hydrocarbon activities on indigenous land: Substantive and procedural rights
Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Emma Wilson
8. The Energy Charter Treaty as a legal instrument for oil and gas disputes
Moritz Wüstenberg and Tina Soliman Hunter
9. Oil and gas in Latin America: Recent development on the policy and regulation and future perspectives
Juan Felipe Neira, Carlos Bellorin, Ernesto Beltrán Nishizaki, Antero
Alvarado and Laura Camila Ramos
10. The shale gas revolution—the United States’ perspective
Hannah J. Wiseman
11. An unconventional evolution: Addressing and regulating socio-legal issues associated with the development of shale gas and coal seam gas resources in selected jurisdictions
Madeline Taylor
12. Changing perspectives on production sharing contracts
Ahad Al Yahyai
13. International and supranational aspects of oil and gas law and its impact on national autonomy over petroleum development
Ernst Nordtveit and Tina Soliman Hunter
14. The regulatory aspects of managing contamination from oil and gas facilities during the offshore decommissioning process
Elizabeth J. Brandon
15. Emerging technologies in oil and gas development: regulatory and policy perspectives
Tina Soliman Hunter, Madeline Taylor and Niloufer Selvadurai
16. Future security of Russia’s fuel and energy complex: The dominance of the Arctic
Dmitriy A. Medvedev and Tina Soliman Hunter
17. Maritime boundaries and cooperation over straddling seabed resources in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Constantinos Yiallourides
18. Conclusion: Energy transition in an oil and gas dependent world
Madeline Taylor and Tina Soliman Hunter