Oil, Gas and Mining Law in Africa

Product Details:
Author(s):
Lauriol, T and
Raynaud, É
Year Published:
2018
Edition
1st Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
The exploitation of natural resources in Africa represents a major challenge. The African continent, which remains largely unexplored, contains a large part of the world’s natural resources. The current context, characterised by a fluctuation of commodity prices, does not reduce the growing interest in Africa and its extractive sector.
Oil, Gas and Mining Law in Africa analyses the mining and petroleum laws in African countries and includes an assessment of contractual aspects applicable to oil, gas and mining operations. The innovative interest of this book is to provide a detailed and up-to-date analysis of mining and petroleum laws applicable to the upstream sector in Africa. It focuses on all the mining and petroleum laws and especially those recently enacted in a constantly changing environment.
Content
Part 1: Introduction
General background
The stakeholders
Natural resources exploitation activities
The permanent sovereignty of states
Ownership of natural resources
The legal and contractual framework for the exploitation of natural resources
The internationalisation of applicable standards
Part 2: Legal basis of the exploitation of natural resources
The concept of mining rights
The granting of mining rights
Agreements with the host state
The organisation of exploitation between operators
Mining rights over non-extracted resources
Mining rights over the extracted resource
Taxation
Financing
Host state participation
Part 3: Operational aspects of exploitation
Disciplinary rules
Surveillance rules
Contractual arrangements to manage risks specific to exploitation agreements
Rules not specific to exploitation agreements
Instruments to implement the transfer of technology
Variable effectiveness of technology transfer
Stimulating the local economy
Enriching national assets of the host state
Appendices
Main regulations applicable to the upstream Oil & Gas sector by country
Main regulations applicable to the upstream mining sector by country
Constitutions
Regional Texts
International Texts
Case Law
Interest / Benefit to
All practitioners who focus their activity on the oil, gas and mining sectors in Africa.