Fundamentals of international oil and gas law / William E. Hughes.

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Hughes, William E., 1944- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Tulsa, Oklahoma : PennWell Corporation, [2016]
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xx, 650 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: Introduction
    • National Laws
    • Applications: Clarity, Stability, Transparency, and Fairness in the Content and Procedures of National Laws
    • Applications: National Law Variations regarding Retail Gasoline (Petrol) Sales: The US, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, and Venezuela
    • Families of National Legal Systems
    • The Common Law System
    • The Civil Law (Code) System
    • Islamic Law
    • Applications: The Place of Islamic Law in a Modern National Legal System
    • Applications: The Impact of Islamic Law on Oil- and Gas-Related Finance
    • Do Contracts Make Law?
    • Additional Resources
    • Problems
    • Notes
    • What Is International Law, of What Does It Consist, and What Are Its Practical Limitations for International Oil and Gas?
    • Limitations of International Law in Its Present Form
    • Is International Law Really Law?
    • Applications: Unilateral Changes in or Revocation of Treaty of Contract Obligations: Argentina, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia
    • International Law and National Law in the Hierarchy of Law
    • Applications: A State's Treaty and Contract Promises: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela
    • International Trade Agreements
    • The World Trade Organization (WTO)
    • Applications: The WTO and the Energy Industry
    • Applications: Exceptions to the WTO's Antidiscrimination Rules
    • Applications: World Trade and the Economic and Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
    • Free Trade Area Agreements
    • The European Union (EU)
    • Applications: EU Law Regulation of Europe's Energy Industry
    • NAFTA and the Latin American Regional Trade Agreements
    • The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
    • Applications: The Workings of OPEC
    • The International Energy Agency (IEA)
    • Applications: National Strategic Petroleum Reserves
    • Applications: Problems of Statistical Compilations
    • General Considerations
    • Export Controls
    • Foreign Investment Restrictions
    • Applications: Mexico's Restrictions on Foreign Ownership
    • Applications: Investment Restrictions on Russia's Oil and Gas Resources and Companies
    • Applications: The EU and European Member State Foreign Investment Restrictions: A Family Feud?
    • Applications: European National Golden Share Laws Restricting Foreign Ownership or Control of National Companies
    • US Law Restrictions on Foreign Investments
    • Applications: Private Ownership of US Oil and Gas Assets by a Foreign State? The CNOOC Bid for Unocal
    • Sanctions, Embargoes, and Boycotts
    • Informal National Boycotts: The Case of Royal Dutch Shell in Argentina in 2005
    • Applications: Iran: US Sanctions and Regulatory and Enforcement Jurisdiction Issues
    • Applications: Libya and the Unwinding of US National Sanctions
    • Varieties of Dispute Resolution Methods
    • Government Court Litigation as an Important Alternative
    • Applications: Examples of Nonarbitrable Litigation
    • Comparing Common Law System Litigation with Civil Law (Code) System Litigation
    • Noncriminal Litigation in a Common Law System
    • Applications: The US 2010 Macondo Oil Spill Common Law Litigation in Government Court, and Pretrial Discovery
    • Contrasted with Litigation in a Civil Law (Code) System
    • Advantages and Disadvantages of Each Litigation System
    • Problem
    • General Characteristics of Arbitration
    • Applications: Oil and Gas Arbitration Cases
    • Laws and Treaties Favoring Arbitration
    • Applications: National Laws that Allow a Freeze of Bank Accounts to Secure Arbitration Awards: Venezuela in British Courts
    • Applications: Argentina: National Refusals to Recognize Arbitration Agreements or to Pay Awards
    • Applications: WTO Arbitration in Practice
    • Established Arbitration Institutions
    • Drafting the Arbitration Provision
    • The Institutional Procedures
    • Applications: Arbitrating the US Macondo Oil Spill Compensation Claims
    • Summary of Advantages and Disadvantages of Arbitration
    • Applications: The Uncertainties of Arbitration
    • When Arbitration May Be a Bad Choice
    • The Meanings and Categories of State Jurisdiction
    • Regulatory Jurisdiction
    • Applications: Doing Business as a Presence
    • Enforcement Jurisdiction
    • Applications: Can US Courts Regulate Working Conditions in Myanmar?
    • Adjudicatory Jurisdiction and Related Issues
    • Applications: Does Doing Business Locally Mean Submitting to Local Court Jurisdiction in All Things?
    • Applications: Russia's OA° Yukos and the US Bankruptcy Court's Jurisdiction
    • Applications: Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Court Judgments: The Case of Chevron and Ecuador
    • Four Important Treaties that Set Standards for Adjudicatory Jurisdiction
    • Applications: The Race to the Courthouse as Establishing Court Jurisdiction in the EU
    • Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitration Awards
    • Sovereign Immunity
    • The Act of State Doctrine
    • Applications: The Special Defenses for States and State-Owned Companies in Oil and Gas Cases
    • Contract and Treaty Waivers of Special Defenses
    • General Patterns of Sovereignty and Onshore Oil and Gas Ownership
    • Applications: State Sovereignty over Onshore Oil and Gas
    • Applications: State Ownership of Oil and Gas (or, Are Iran's Revolutionary Guards a Full Service State Oil Company?)
    • Factors Complicating the US Pattern of Private Ownership
    • Applications: Drilling for Gas in the City of Fort Worth, Texas
    • Applications: The Significance of Government Ownership of Land in the US
    • Factors Complicating the Pattern of State Ownership
    • Sovereignty Disputes between States
    • Applications: The Western Sahara Case
    • Applications: Ambiguities Due to Federal Structures of Government in Iraq
    • Applications: What Happens with a Failed or Failing State? The Case of Sudan
    • Effects of a Land Dispute Continued into the Offshore Waters and Seabed
    • Applications: The Cases of Cyprus and Turkey and of Scotland and Britain
    • Introduction
    • Pre-UNCLOS History
    • The UNCLOS Water and Seabed Zones
    • States' Rights and Obligations within the Zones
    • Applications: A Coastal State's Right to Ban Use of Its Ports: The Case of Turkey and Cyprus
    • Applications: Potential Bottlenecks and Disputes Involving Straits
    • Applications: Federal Structures of the US Government and their Effect on Sovereignty over the US Continental Shelf
    • Applications: Vessel Registration and Iran Sanctions 2012
    • Applications: Five Law of the Sea Disputes: East China Sea, South China Sea, Timor Sea, Western Sahara, and the Caspian Sea
    • The Deep Seabed Regime, Developed States' Objections, and Present Status
    • Joint Development Zones
    • Applications: JDZs for Nigeria-Sao Tome, Malaysia-Brunei, Trinidad-Venezuela, and Mexico-US
    • Applications: Bidding Practices and the Law of Contracts
    • Applications: Bidding in Libya, Ecuador, Sao Tome, Iran, Nigeria, and Angola
    • The EU Hydrocarbon Licensing Directive
    • Licensing in the United Kingdom
    • US Government Offshore Leasing Procedures
    • Introduction to the Four Basic Models of Host Country and Multinational Oil Company Development Arrangements
    • Historical Background
    • Applications: The Shale Revolution and Fundamental Shifts in Balance of Power between Developing and Developed Countries?
    • The Concession (License) Model
    • Applications: Are Concessions the Wave of the Future?
    • The Government Participation Model
    • Applications: Examples of the Government Participation Model: Saudi Aramco and Rosneft
    • The Production Sharing Model
    • The Service Contract Model
    • Applications: Brazil and Its Forms of Development Arrangements
    • Practical Consequences of Categorizations
    • Applications: Accounting for Assets of a Production Company, and Standards for Recognizing and Valuing Its Oil and Gas Reserves
    • Applications: Are Host Countries the New Multinationals?
    • Size of the Grant
    • Duration of the Grant
    • Host Country Control over Development
    • Management Rights Reserved to the Host Country
    • Compensation, Cost, and Cost Recovery Issues
    • Local Employment, Subcontracting, and Content Requirements
    • Sales of Production to State-Owned Oil Companies
    • Applications: Local Sales Requirements in Indonesia
    • Local Delivery of Production
    • Other Important Provisions: Dispute Resolution, Stabilization, Force Majeure, Unitization, and Abandonment
    • Applications: What Constitutes Force Majeure?
    • Licenses and Concessions (Concessionary Systems)
    • Government Participation in the License/Concession
    • Production Sharing Contracts (the Contractual System)
    • Applications: Varieties of Tax Issues in Alaska, Israel, the UK, and the US
    • Service Contracts
    • Participation Agreements: Bidding Agreements and Farmouts
    • Applications: Is There Taxable Profit on the Farmout of a Participation Interest? The Case of Tullow in Uganda
    • Joint Operating Agreements and Highlights of the AIPN Model Form
    • Applications: The Importance of the JOAs in Indonesia and Kuwait
    • Applications: A Joint Venture as Operator of the Kashagan Field in Kazakhstan
    • Note continued: Applications: The US 2010 Macondo Well Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Resulting Indemnity Claims By and Against the Operator and Nonoperating Interest Owners
    • Applications: A Norwegian Tanker and Drilling Rig Magnate
    • Drilling Contracts
    • Applications: The 2010 Macondo Oil Spill in the US Gulf of Mexico and Drilling Contract Language
    • Model Contracts and the Master Service Agreement
    • Conflicting Interests Shaping Environmental Laws
    • Applications: Oil, Gas, and the Greens
    • General Shape of National and International Environmental Law
    • Applications: Soft International Law and Pipeline Financing in Peru
    • The Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Conference, and Paris Agreement
    • Applications: Kyoto's Reception and Effects in Various Countries
    • EU Environmental Law
    • US National Environmental Law and the NEPA
    • Applications: The US NEPA Process
    • Applications: Direct and Indirect Costs of Environmental Protection
    • Applications: Russian Use of Environmental Law Objections for Nonenvironmental Ends
    • Applications: US National Environmental Regulation of Oil and Gas in the US State of Alaska
    • The Exxon Valdez Spill and Its Aftermath
    • Applications: The Exxon Valdez Spill in Alaska: A Never-Ending Litigation
    • Other Major Ocean Spills prior to 2010
    • Applications: The 2010 Macondo Oil Spill in the US Gulf of Mexico
    • History and Magnitude of the Decommissioning Problem
    • Summary of Major Treaties Relating to Maritime Pollution and Decommissioning Liability
    • Spill and Pollution Liability and Decommissioning Responsibility under National Law
    • Applications: Industry Experience Examples with Oil and Gas Spills Since 2007
    • Applications: National Law Allocation of Decommissioning Liability: The Complications
    • Contract Allocation of Spill Liability and Decommissioning Responsibility
    • Applications: The Case of Chevron and Ecuador: Is Contract Allocation of Decommissioning and Spill Liability a Sure Solution?
    • Distinctions Between Indemnity, Release, and Insurance
    • Indemnity Agreements
    • Insurance Coverage
    • Applications: Risks and Losses Covered by Insurance: The US Gulf of Mexico and the Malacca Straits
    • Applications: Indemnification and Insurance Issues in the 2010 US Gulf of Mexico Macondo Oil Spill
    • Applications: Corruption's Contribution to the Oil Curse
    • The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
    • Applications: The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Operation
    • Treaties and Other National Laws Criminalizing Foreign Bribery
    • Applications: Meanwhile, Outside the United States
    • Applications: World Bank Sanctions for Violating Bank Anti-Bribery Standards
    • Warning Signs and Prevention of Foreign Bribery
    • Applications: Is There a Duty to Examine the Ownership of Local Companies Participating in Licenses? The Angola Case of Cobalt International Energy
    • Natural Gas Economics; Regulatory Issues; and Transportation, Delivery, and Market Structures
    • Applications: Flaring Still Lives!
    • Applications: The International Natural Monopoly Problem in Natural Gas
    • Applications: International Pipeline Natural Monopolies and the Case of Russia's OAO Gazprom
    • US Regulation of Natural Gas and Natural Gas Pipelines
    • EU Regulation of the European Gas Market
    • Applications: European Union Member States' Noncompliance with the Gas Directives
    • Gas Regulation in the UK
    • Planning for Cross-Border Pipeline Projects
    • Applications: The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline
    • Applications: Kazakhstan: A Landlocked State and Its Oil Pipelines
    • Applications: A Pipeline for Peruvian Gas?
    • Applications: The Cross-Boundary Pipeline Legal Structure
    • Applications: The US-Canadian Keystone XL Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline and US Land Transportation of Shale Oil
    • The Energy Charter Treaty's Transit Provisions
    • Applications: Russia's Nonratification of the ECT
    • Regulation of Tanker Transportation of Oil and Gas
    • Applications: Canada May Have Regulatory Jurisdiction to Require Reporting by Ships in Transit, but Does It Have Enforcement Jurisdiction?
    • LNG Transportation and LNG Fixed Facilities
    • Applications: Effects of Supply, Demand, and Other Factors on Pricing and Structure of LNG Contracts and Regulation
    • Applications: Private Ownership, Efficiency, and the Social and Political Implications
    • Expropriation under Customary International Law
    • Applications: Expropriation and the Case of Venezuela in 2005, 2006, and 2007
    • Applications: Argentina's 2012 Expropriation of Repsol's YPF Stock
    • Expropriation Compensation and Expropriation Insurance
    • Privatization
    • Applications: The OAO Yukos Privatization and the Russian Oligarchs
    • The Energy Charter Treaty and Other Treaties Dealing with Expropriation
    • Major Sources of Financing
    • Applications: Variety of Financial Arrangements: Where Do Countries and Companies Get Their Money
    • Applications: Investor Risk in Minority Share Ownership in State Owned Companies and the Case of Russia's OAO Gazprom
    • Project Finance as an Example of Financing
    • Spending and Savings: What Do Countries and Companies Do with Their Money? Expenses, Reserve Replacement, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
    • Applications: Oil Stabilization Funds and the Strange Case of Chad
    • Comparisons and Contrasts: Financial Analysis of Individual Companies
    • Applications: The 2010 US Gulf of Mexico Macondo Oil Spill and Its Financial Effects
    • Applications: Analyst Views on ExxonMobil Corporation
    • Applications: Derivatives as Hedges and Profit Centers
    • The Basic Derivatives: Forward Contracts, Futures Contracts, and Options
    • Applications: Contangos, Backwardations, and Oil and Gas Derivatives Markets' Macro Effects
    • Applications: WTI, Brent, and the Principal Oil Price Indices and How They Operate
    • Applications: The Effects of Price Changes in the Underlying Commodity on Option Prices
    • More Complex Derivatives
    • Regulation of Derivatives and of Their Markets
    • Carbon Emissions: Trading and Derivatives
    • Notes.
    Other title(s)
    Fundamentals of international oil and gas law
    ISBN
    • 9781593703615 ((hbk.))
    • 1593703619 ((hbk.))
    LCCN
    2015048436
    OCLC
    932003708
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