Module LAWM714 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
LAWM714: Oil and Gas
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will include the following topics:
-Introduction to the basic concepts of oil and gas;
-Legal ownership and valuation of reserves and opportunities for exploration and production
-Introduction to the basic contractual issues; operation; assignment
-Discussion of methods to balance the interests of the parties involved
-Upstream activities
-Pre-authorisation phase
-Confidentiality agreements
-Authorisation phase; discussion of Exploration and Production Licences and Sharing Agreements
-Financing/funding of oil and gas projects
-Decommissioning
-Impact of new technologies and the international protection of new technologies
-Oil and gas operations and legal liability issues
-Pollution & environmental protection challenges
-Aspects of downstream activities
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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33 | 267 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 33 | 11 x 3 hour seminars involving lectures with discussion activities, individual and group presentations |
Guided independent study | 110 | Individual research, reading and seminar preparation |
Guided independent study | 63 | Assessment preparation (presentation) |
Guided independent study | 94 | Assessment preparation (essay) |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
- Z. Gao, International petroleum contracts: current trends and new directions Graham & Trotman/Martinus Nijhoff, London 1994.
- K.W. Blinn & Claude Duval, International petroleum exploration and exploitation agreements: legal, economic and policy aspects, Barrows, NY, 2009
- G. Gordon, J. Paterson, E. Usenmeze, Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends. (2nd edn, Dundee University Press 2011
- B. Taverne, Petroleum, Industry and Government: A Study of the Involvement of Industry and Government in the Production and Use of Petroleum (Kluwer Law International 2008)
- J. Wills, E. Neilson (Eds), The Technical and Legal Guide to the UK Oil and Gas Industry (Aberlour Press Ltd 2007))
- D. Yergin, The Prize – the epic quest for oil, money and power (Free Press 2003)
- Oil and gas law journals including: OGEL; JWELB; IELR; Tul L R; Tex J Oil Gas & Energy Law; J Energy Nat. Resources Law
- E.E. Smith, Materials on international petroleum transactions, 3rd Ed., Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Westminster Colorado, 2010
- C.P. Andrews-Speed, International competition for resources: the role of law, the state and of markets, University of Dundee - Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, Dundee Univ. Press, Dundee, 2008.
- D. Helm, The new energy paradigm, OUP, Oxford 2007
- A. Jennings, Oil and gas production contracts, S&M, London, 2006
- B. Barton, Regulating energy and natural resources, International Bar Association. Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law. Academic Advisory Group, OUP, Oxford, 2006.
- K. Hossain,Law and policy in petroleum development: changing relations between transnationals and governments: a comparative study sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth Secretariat, Nichols, Pinter, London- NY,USA, 1979