1st Edition
National Approaches to Hydrocarbon Development Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements
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: USA, Canada, UK, 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.
Part I: Concepts and Principles
1. Introduction
Eduardo G. Pereira, Marianthi Pappa and Damilola S. Olawuyi
2. Ownership of Resources, Rule of Capture and Government Approvals
Eduardo G. Pereira, Marianthi Pappa and Damilola S. Olawuyi
3. Unitization and Unit Operating Agreements
Eduardo G. Pereira, Marianthi Pappa and Damilola S. Olawuyi
Part II: Case Studies
4. Unitization in Brazil: Conflicting Legal Regimes & Non-Unitized Areas Experience
André Lemos and Eduardo G. Pereira
5. Unitization in Canada
Chi Iliya-Ndule
6. Ghana
Thomas Kojo Stephens
7. Mexico
Dario G. Lamanna
8. Unitization in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry
Damilola S. Olawuyi and Olujobi Olusola Joshua
9. Unitization in Norway
Rune Omdahl
10. Unitization in the United Kingdom
Tolulope O Taiwo
11. United States of America
Keith B. Hall
Part III: Conclusion
12. Negotiating risk-free Unitization and Joint Document Agreements: Summary and Options for Policymakers
Eduardo G. Pereira, Marianthi Pappa and Damilola S. Olawuyi
Biography
Eduardo G. Pereira is a worldwide 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 possesses 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 & Natural Resources Law. She holds an LLB from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, along with an LLM in Oil & 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 LL.M. 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, China University of Political Science and Law, a senior visiting research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and currently 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.
