International Approaches to Hydrocarbon Development in Disputed Zones

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 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 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 also the Chancellor’s Fellow and Director of the OGEES Institute, Afe Babalola University.

• Part I: Concepts and Principles1. General Introduction2. Cross-Border Unitization and Joint DevelopmentPart II: Regional Cross-Border Border Developments 3. Exploitation of Transboundary Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Rules in the Americas4. Cross Border Unitization and Joint Development Zones: Case Studies from Africa5. European Cross Border Unitization Agreements: A Case Study of the UK, Norway and the Netherlands6. Unitization in the Middle East Oil and Gas SectorPart III: Ongoing Disputes 7. International Boundary Disputes in Africa: Perspectives from Africa’s Great Lakes Region8. Joint Development of Petroleum Resources in the East and South China Seas9. The Mediterranean SeaPart IV: Conclusion and Recommendations10. Negotiating Risk-Free Unitization and Joint Document Agreements: Summary and Options for Policymakers