Joint operating agreements, challenges and concerns from civil law jurisdictions
By: edited by Eduardo G. Pereira
Series: Energy and environmental law & policy series  : supranational and comparative aspects -- volume 30; Energy and environmental law & policy series -- v. 30.
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9789041159342
Subjects: Petroleum law and legislation; Joint ventures; Law and legislation; Civil law systems
Description: "Historically oil and gas upstream activities were developed in common law jurisdictions. In the same manner the first model form of Joint Operating Agreements (JOAs) was developed in 1956 by the American Association of Professional Landmen. This historical model form provided the industry with guidance for future generations of JOAs. Although the JOAs were initially used in common law jurisdictions (US, Canada, UK, etc.) later on it was used in civil law jurisdictions throughout South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. There is no JOA model available in the industry to address all of the requirements from a large variety of civil law perspectives. The Norwegian and Greenlandic authorities offer their own JOA models, which are suitable within these jurisdictions. The AIPN JOA model form 2012 issued a short guidance note for civil law issues. Although this initiative was very much welcomed by the industry, it was not possible to provide extensive guidance on every detail and provide advice on exactly what your JOA provisions should look like at the very end. Therefore, the main issue for the petroleum industry is the fact that large upstream investments could be done based on a contract that might not be enforceable in a civil law jurisdiction. This book analyses the main issues that a JOA might face within seventeen civil jurisdictions with large oil and gas reserves or at least large potential (including but not limited to Angola, Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Holland, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Mozambique, Norway, Russia, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, etc.). It is a unique and valuable publication for practitioners, legal counsel, businessmen, and academics involved in the upstream industry around the world"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Angola  -- Patricia Rosario & Paolo Esposito; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Argentina  -- Tomas Lanardonne & Pablo Rueda; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : The Brazil Case  -- Jose Virgilio Lopes Enei & Daniel Szyfman; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : China  -- Dirk Walker, Leslie Zhang, Dina Yin, & Huang Jingchun; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : France  -- Ramin Hariri; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Indonesia  -- Madjedi Hasan; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Kazakhstan  -- Zulfiya Akchurina, Sulnkhan Mukhamejanova & Maxim Burak; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Mexico  -- Miriam Grunstein Dickter; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Mozambique  -- Ricardo Nery; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : The Netherlands  -- Jaap Jan Trommel & Lisa Schoenmakers; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Norway  -- Tonje P. Gormley; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Poland  -- Piotr Pszczel; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Portugal  -- Patricia Rossrio & Paolo Esposito; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Russia  -- Alexander Marchenko, Kseniya Lopatkina & Jon Hines; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : The Republic of Turkey  -- Mehmet Suat Kayikci; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Uzbekistan  -- Kamilla Khamraeva & Umid Aripdjanov; title: Working with Joint Operating Agreements in Civil Law Jurisdiction : Venezuela  -- Carlos Bellorin & Federico Jagenberg -- Appendix.; title: Guidance Notes to AIPN 2012 Model Joint Operating Agreement.