LAWS6933 - Global Oil & Gas Contracts and Issues

Objectives

Undertake a review of the world’s minerals-development regimes and the contracts that international investors use to implement them.
Examine the fiscal arrangements that nations use to obtain exploration and development.
Focus on the contracts that international investors use to share risks and rewards.

Content

Licences; production sharing contracts, joint ventures and service contracts; confidentiality agreements, study and bidding agreements, operating agreements, farm out agreements, lifting agreements and gas sales contracts; joint development agreement, taxation issues, corruption and indemnification.

Session

Semester 1 Intensive
10-14 May 2010

This unit replaced International Petroleum Transactions.

The timetable is subject to frequent changes. Please refer to the latest version of the Postgraduate Timetable.

Assessment

1 x Take Home Exam (100%)

Courses this unit is available in

Sydney Law School