| Description |
1 online resource (516 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Contents and Entries -- Introduction -- PART A -- Oil and Gas Policy, Regulatory and Operational Institutions -- Chapter 1. Policy and Regulatory Institutions -- The President -- The Minister -- The National Council of Ministers -- Petroleum Inspectorate -- Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) -- Chapter 2. Operational Institutions -- Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation -- Reasons for the Establishment of National Oil Companies |
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NNPC StructureNNPC Directorates -- NNPC Subsidiaries -- NNPC Quasi-subsidiary Gas Companies -- NNPC Corporate Service Units -- Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010 -- Regulatory and Policy Compliance -- Institutional Structures under the Petroleum Industry Bill 2012 -- NNPC and the need for Reform -- Chapter 3. International and Indigenous Oil Corporations -- Shell Petroleum Development Company -- Mobil Producing Nigeria -- Chevron Nigeria Limited -- Total Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd -- AGIP -- Texaco -- Dubri Oil |
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Famfa Oil Nigeria LtdSouth Atlantic Petroleum -- Consolidated Oil Nigeria Producing Limited -- Chapter 4. International Oil and Gas Organizations -- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) -- World Petroleum Council (WPC) -- Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) -- The World Energy Councils -- Shadowy Oil Cartels -- The Old Seven Sisters -- The New Seven Sisters -- PART B -- Upstream Oil and Gas Issues, Law and Policy -- Chapter 5. Discovery, Uses and Importance of Oil and Gas in Nigeria -- Introduction -- Uses of Oil -- Importance of Oil |
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Discovery of GasMajor Events in the history of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry -- Chapter 6. Surveys for Oil and Gas and Mapping of Oil and Gas Blocs -- Types of Oil and Gas Survey -- Seismic Survey, Seismic Data Acquisition, Processing and Interpretation -- Mapping of Oil Blocs -- Chapter 7. Petroleum Geology, Petroleum Engineering, Naming and Designation of Oil Fields, Wells and Discovery Reports -- Petroleum Geology -- Petroleum Engineering -- Types of Drilling for Oil -- Naming and Designation of Oil wells and Fields -- Discovery Reports |
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Chapter 8. Oil Exploration, Oil Prospecting and Oil MiningDefinition of Oil Exploration and Oil Prospecting -- Grant of Oil Exploration, Oil Prospecting License and Oil Mining Lease by the Minister of Petroleum -- Registration of Oil Prospecting License and Oil Mining Lease -- Stamping of Oil Mining Leases -- Duration of Oil Exploration and Oil Prospecting License -- Petroleum Exploration Work Programme -- Discovery of Oil and Gas -- Unitization of Oil Blocs -- Right to a Mining Lease -- Life Span of a Lease -- Renewal of Lease -- Relinquishment |
| Summary |
Though predominantly on oil and gas law, this is nonetheless a veritable Reference Book on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. It places before anyone interested in the oil and gas industry basic and critical oil and gas issues not in common circulation in existing texts on the subject. The book is arranged in such a chronological order, like reference books and dictionaries tend to be, that a lay person in going through it would now know how oil is explored and found, how oil fields may be onshore and offshore, how oil blocs are bidded for, how oil is drilled, including associated gas deposits, among others. The transportation of oil and gas, storage of oil and gas, refining of oil and processing of gas, marketing of oil and gas, the impact of oil and gas exploration, production and revenues on the Nigerian environment, politics and economy and a myriad of other issues are comprehensively covered. The book should prove most useful to the lawyer, petroleum geologist, petroleum engineer, policy makers, investors, local and international development agencies and bodies, lecturers and students specialising in wide ranging subjects as economics, development studies, engineering, management, public administration, insurance, marketing, accounting and finance |
| Notes |
""Surrender of License or Lease"" |
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Print version record |
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Gas industry -- Nigeria
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Nigeria
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Natural gas -- Law and legislation -- Nigeria
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Petroleum law and legislation -- Nigeria
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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LAW -- Natural Resources.
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Gas industry
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Natural gas -- Law and legislation
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Petroleum industry and trade
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Petroleum law and legislation
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Nigeria
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789785545357 |
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9785545350 |
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