Finders keepers
Subtitle: how the law of capture shaped the world oil industry
By: Terence Daintith.
Publisher: RFF Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781933115849; 9781933115832
Subjects: Petroleum law and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Naming and blaming; title: The leading cases and their legal background; title: Practice and belief in the early petroleum industry; title: The mineral water industry in France : protection and competition; title: Asphalt in Trinidad : digging your neighbour's pitch; title: America's early oil rivals : petroleum and property rights in Galicia, Romania and Russia; title: Correlative rights and the beginnings of conservation; title: Oil and gas in the public lands; title: Conservation regulation and the institutionalization of capture; title: Securing unified national control of petroleum resources; title: Capture revivified? competitive acreage allocation by governments; title: The cross-boundary petroleum deposit as a federal and international issue; title: The least worst property rule?