Research Handbook on Oil and Gas Law

Edited by Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Energy and Resources Law, and Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation (CENRIT), Macquarie University, Australia and Madeline Taylor, Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Early Career Industry Fellow, Macquarie Law School, Transforming Energy Markets Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia

‘Soliman Hunter and Taylor bring together a fine group of legal specialists and practitioners to explore the past, present and future of oil and gas. As the world transitions towards a low carbon future, this is a very timely and important research volume on energy markets, governance and regulatory regimes.’

• Contents:PART I THE PAST – THE DOMINANCE OF OIL1 Historical perspectives on the global petroleum economy 2Tina Soliman Hunter2 The role and influence of oil concessions on the oil and gas industry 33Janan Gibbins3 The ‘move’ offshore: The progressive development of international lawin relation to the access to, and control of, offshore oil and gas resources 52Nikolaos Koulouris and Tina Soliman Hunter4 Development of regulatory regimes for offshore petroleum exploitation:The ‘North American’ and ‘North Sea’ perspectives 65Tina Soliman HunterPART II THE PRESENT: OIL AND GAS IN THE MODERN WORLD5 The role of law in petroleum resource governance and predicting thenatural resource paradox in Africa 90Eddy Lenusira Wifa and Mostafa Elshazly6 Asian liquified natural gas markets: The tomorrow will look verydifferent from yesterday 115Kim Talus7 Hydrocarbon activities on indigenous land: Substantive and procedural rights 130Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Emma Wilson8 The Energy Charter Treaty as a legal instrument for oil and gas disputes 158Moritz Wüstenberg and Tina Soliman Hunter9 Oil and gas in Latin America: Recent development on the policy andregulation and future perspectives 175Juan Felipe Neira, Carlos Bellorin, Ernesto Beltrán Nishizaki, AnteroAlvarado and Laura Camila Ramos10 The shale gas revolution—the United States’ perspective 195Hannah J. Wiseman11 An unconventional evolution: Addressing and regulating socio-legalissues associated with the development of shale gas and coal seam gasresources in selected jurisdictions 219Madeline Taylor12 Changing perspectives on production sharing contracts 246Ahad Al Yahyai13 International and supranational aspects of oil and gas law and its impacton national autonomy over petroleum development 290Ernst Nordtveit and Tina Soliman Hunter14 The regulatory aspects of managing contamination from oil and gasfacilities during the offshore decommissioning process 320Elizabeth J Brandon15 Emerging technologies in oil and gas development: regulatory andpolicy perspectives 344Tina Soliman Hunter, Madeline Taylor and Niloufer Selvadurai16 Future security of Russia’s fuel and energy complex: The dominance ofthe Arctic 372Dmitriy A. Medvedev and Tina Soliman Hunter17 Maritime boundaries and cooperation over straddling seabed resourcesin the Eastern Mediterranean Sea 388Constantinos Yiallourides18 Conclusion: Energy transition in an oil and gas dependent world 409Madeline Taylor and Tina Soliman HunterIndex