The legal dimensions of oil and gas in Iraq : current reality and future prospects / Rex J. Zedalis
- Author
- Zedalis, Rex J.
- Published
- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 335 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents
- The facts regarding Iraqi oil and gas reserves and their legal status prior to self-governance -- The provisions of the Iraqi Constitution addressing oil and gas activities : of the role of subcentral governing entities, handling of revenues, and "present" versus "future" fields -- Federal oil and gas framework law and subcentral government responses -- A primer on the federal model exploration and production contracts and the Kurdistan regional government's model production-sharing contract -- The federal oil and gas revenue-sharing law : its many problems -- Measures to reconstitute the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC) and reorganize the ministry of oil -- The matter of creditor claims : an examination of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1790 (18 Dec. 2007) and 1859 (22 Dec. 2008), and their predecessors -- Central government authority to strike oil and gas development agreements in the absence of a federal framework law -- Distributing profits in the absence of a federal revenue-sharing law -- Changing the mix : transition fails and the face of Iraq is altered.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780521766616 (hbk.)
0521766613 (hbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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