Character of Petroleum Licences

Edited by Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Energy and Resources Law, and Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation (CENRIT), Macquarie University, Australia, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, Professor, Department for Public and International Law, University of Oslo and Ernst Nordtveit, Professor (em.) of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway

• Contents:Acknowledgements viii1 Introduction 1Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde and Tina Soliman Hunter2 Characterisation of Australia’s petroleum licences: propertycapable of acquisition on ‘just terms’? 16Tina Soliman Hunter3 The legal character of petroleum licences in the UnitedStates of America 51John Lowe4 The legal character of petroleum licences in Canada 72Nigel Bankes5 The legal character of petroleum licences in Uganda 95Emmanuel Kasimbazi6 Petroleum licences – a legal culture perspective: the UnitedKingdom 119Greg Gordon and John Paterson7 Oil and gas licences – a legal nature perspective: the Netherlands 139Martha Roggenkamp8 Legal character of petroleum licences under Norwegian law 159Ernst Nordtveit9 Russia: legal culture and character of Russian petroleum licences 186Irina Fodchenko10 The Mexican petroleum licence of 2013 207Guillermo J. Garcia Sanchez11 The legal character of petroleum licences in the People’sRepublic of China 234Yong Li12 Afterword: Licence rights – what’s left? 253Terence DaintithIndex