National Approaches to Hydrocarbon Development

Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-75366-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

This book analyses the legal obstacles associated with the advancement of unitization processes and procedures at a national, domestic level.

It uses case studies of identified jurisdictions with relevant States practice and unitization experience in terms of the domestic legal framework and practices. For experience in unitization, the book will focus on the following countries: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Norway, Brazil, Mexico, Ghana and Nigeria. Focusing on best practices which have influenced the development of the unitization concept, the book looks at the formulation of different models and operating agreements, and their potential impact on unexplored hydrocarbon resources, particularly in cases where unitization is necessary.

The book will be of interest to practitioners, scholars and students in the field of natural resource law, international law and unitization.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pereira, Eduardo G

Pappa, Marianthi

Olawuyi, Damilola S

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Energierecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Concepts and Principles

1. Introduction

2. Ownership of Resources, Rule of Capture and Government Approvals

3. Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements

 

Part II:  Case Studies

4. 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: Conclusion

12. Negotiating risk-free Unitization and Joint Document Agreements: Summary and Options for Policymakers

Über Autor(innen)

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.