International Energy Charter |
URL | 2016
In a world of increasing interdependence between net exporters and importers of energy, it is widely recognised that multilateral rules can provide a more balanced and efficient framework for international cooperation than is offered by bilateral agreements alone or by non-legislative instruments. T...
Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) |
Document | 2014
The Natural Resource Charter is a set of principles for governments and societies on how to best harness the opportunities created by extractive resources for development. It is not a recipe or blueprint for the policies and institutions countries must build, but instead provides the ingredients suc...
Raw Talks |
youtube | 2017
This succinct account of some of the factors underlying petroleum economics may be of value to sector decision makers and stakeholders
The World Bank |
Document | 2015
This report provides a baseline institutional and regulatory assessment of the oil and gas, mining (including jade and gemstones) and the hydropower sectors in Myanmar. This report is the first in-depth study of the context within which EITI will be implemented in Myanmar, and can inform broader eff...
Government of Canada |
Document | 1993
This 1993 act concerns an agreement between the Inuit of the Nunavut Settlement Area and Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada. The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act requires an Inuit “Impact and Benefit Agreement”.
Barrister Tapas K. Baul and Umme Wara |
Document | 2014
In this article, the authors analyse the Niko case to evaluate the avenues available to the climate victims of Bangladesh. The authors also discuss the pros and cons of both national court and international arbitration. The paper looks at why international bodies, e.g., Niko, prefer arbitration as a...
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |
Document | 2013
This report discusses the development of new offshore gas in Mozambique and Tanzania. It concludes that the speed and volume of LNG exports from Mozambique and Tanzania will be a function, not only of the amount of gas, but also of domestic politics and policies, the economics of the proposed export...
Republic of Chile |
Document | 1995
This is Chile's 1995 Law on the Regulation of Environmental Quality and Emission Standards - Reglamento para la dictación de normas de calidad ambiental y de emisión. In Spanish.
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies |
Document | 2014
This report contains a political risk outlook for Mozambique's Rovuma LNG ventures. Mozambique has a set of basic political and legislative components – including a basic legal
framework for hydrocarbons ventures – that may facilitate the development of LNG production, if not
by 2018, then probabl...
Somali National Oil Company (SONOC) |
Document | 2016
Somalia, Somali National Oil Company (SONOC) Regulation (2016), whereby SONOC is established as the government-owned company to represent the commercial interest of Somalia and boost downstream activities. Article 2 of the regulation statest that SONOC shall have its head office in Mogadishu and ma...
Natural Resource Governance Institute |
Document | 2015
This blog post explains how low oil prices have imposed difficult choices in Uganda. Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (PEPD) recently extended the deadline for firms to submit bids in its first-ever round of licensing for six oil blocks in the Albertine Graben. The extension is in...
United Mexican States |
Document | 2017
This document is an extract from the Mexican Constitution Article 27 regarding the ownership of natural resources. It includes important provisions with regards to land tenure, notably Article 27 empowers the State over fundamental aspects of property ownership and resulted in expropriation and dist...
Republic of Chile and the Republic of South Africa |
Document | 2016
This document is the Income Tax Act Convention between South Africa and Chile for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and on capital (in English).
World Bank |
Document | 2016
The objectives of this report are to provide a comprehensive review of the current policy of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) towards the oil and natural gas sector and to evaluate the regulatory framework in terms of good international practice. The oil and gas sector in Ethiopia, currently at a ve...
The World Bank |
URL | 2015
This report provides a baseline institutional and regulatory assessment of the oil and gas, mining (including jade and gemstones) and the hydropower sectors in Myanmar. This report is the first in-depth study of the context within which EITI will be implemented in Myanmar, and can inform broader eff...
United States of America |
Document | 2007
USA Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, being an Act to move the United States toward greater energy independence and security, to increase the production of clean renewable fuels, to protect consumers, to increase the efficiency of products, buildings, and vehicles, to promote research on...
Government of Mongolia and Government of the Russian Federation |
Document | 1995
In this agreement the parties shall carry out cooperation in the following fields: (a) elaboration of arrangements to prevent industrial accidents, natural disasters ; (b) setting up official structures for the exchange of information; (c) mutual assistance in the mitigation of the consequences of i...
Republic of South Africa |
Document | 2009
This Act amends the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002, so as to make the Minister the responsible authority for implementing environmental matters in terms of the National Environment Act, 1998 and specific environmental legislation as it relates to prospecting, mining, explorati...
United Republic of Tanzania |
Document | 2015
This Act provides for the regulation of upstream, midstream and downstream petroleum activities, the establishment of the Petroleum Upstream Regulatory Authority, to provide for the National Oil Company, to secure the accountability of petroleum entities and to provide for other related matters.
Republic of Ghana |
Document | 2005
This Act provides for the establishment and the function of the National Petroleum Authority, a new Ghanaian statutory body. It was set up to regulate, oversee and monitor the Ghanaian petroleum industry, and in the policy context of a drive for greater efficiency, growth and stakeholder satisfactio...
