The legal dimensions of oil and gas in Iraq
Subtitle: current reality and future prospects
By: Rex J. Zedalis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780521766616
Subjects: Petroleum law and legislation -- Iraq; Natural gas -- Law and legislation -- Iraq; Revenue sharing -- Law and legislation -- Iraq; Federal government -- Iraq; Oil and gas leases -- Iraq; Petroleum industry and trade -- Iraq
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The facts regarding Iraqi oil and gas reserves and their legal status prior to self-governance; title: The provisions of the Iraqi Constitution addressing oil and gas activities : of the role of sub-central governing entities, handling of revenues, and "present" v. "future" fields; title: The federal oil and gas framework law and sub-central government responses; title: A primer on the federal model production sharing agreement and the Kurdistan regional government's model production sharing contract; title: The federal oil and gas revenue sharing law : its many problems; title: Measures to reorganize the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC) and the ministry of oil; title: The matter of creditor claims : an examination of United Nations' Security Council Resolution 1790 (18 Dec. 2007) and its predecessors; title: Central government authority to strike oil and gas development agreements in the absence of a federal framework law; title: Distributing profits in the absence of a federal revenue sharing law; title: Changing the mix : transition fails and the face of Iraq is altered.