Governing Law and Dispute Resolution in the Oil and Gas Industry

Edited by Eduardo G. Pereira, Professor of Natural Resources and Energy Law as an honary, adjunct, researcher and/or visiting scholar at a number of leading academic institutions around the world (including the Siberian Federal University, University of Eastern Finland, University of São Paulo, Strathmore University, Agostinho Neto University, University of Aberdeen and the Externado University of Colombia, among others), Tuuli Timonen, Dottir Asianajotoimisto Oy, Finland and Elina Aleynikova, Senior Associate, International Arbitration Group, White & Case LLP, France

• Contents:Preface xxviiPART I KEY PRINCIPLES AND ISSUES RELATED TO GOVERNING LAWAND DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY1 The oil and gas industry is prone to disputes 2Elina Aleynikova, Tuuli Timonen and Eduardo G Pereira2 Governing law of oil and gas agreements and of disputes arising in the oil and gas industry 22Elina Aleynikova, Tuuli Timonen and Eduardo G Pereira3 Dispute resolution planning in oil and gas projects 59Elina Aleynikova, Tuuli Timonen and Eduardo G Pereira4 Future of oil and gas disputes 86Elina Aleynikova, Tuuli Timonen and Eduardo G. PereiraPART II KEY JURISDICTIONS’ APPROACH TOWARDS GOVERNING LAWAND DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRYA. Americas5 Argentina 102Pablo Rueda and Marcos Blanco6 Bolivia 117Ramiro Moreno Baldivieso7 Brazil 126Flávio Spaccaquerche Barbosa and Vanessa Winkler8 Canada 139Philip Abraham, Rachel A. Howie, Kim Martyn and Adrienne O’Reilly9 Mexico 157Juan Carlos Serra Campillo and Jorge Eduardo Escobedo Montaño10 United States of America 168Lisa M. BohmerB. Africa11 Algeria 187Waniss Almashri Otman12 Angola 210José-Miguel Júdice, Ana Oliveira Rocha and Ana Coimbra Trigo13 Ghana 220Thomas Kojo Stephens and Seyram Dzikunu14 Libya 233Waniss Almashri Otman15 Mozambique 253José-Miguel Júdice, Ana Oliveira Rocha and Ana Coimbra Trigo16 Nigeria 261Olayemi AnyanechiC. Asia17 Azerbaijan 280Anna Dreyzina18 China 294Michael Polkinghorne and Anna Chuwen Dai19 Indonesia 315Debby Sulaiman and Ali Nasir20 Iran 329Seyed Nasrollah Ebrahimi21 Kazakhstan 348Yerbolat Yerkebulanov and Bakhyt Tukulov22 Qatar 360Francis Nii Botchway and Abdullah Dohan Al-Shammari23 England and Wales 372Mark Clarke and James Hart24 France 389Kirsten Odynski, Philippe Boisvert, Menalco J. Solis, and Agathe Mercier25 Georgia 404Ketevan Betaneli26 The Netherlands 422Kasper Krzeminski and Lisa Schoenmakers27 Russia 435Noah Rubins QC, Alexey Yadykin and Dmitry KazhaevIndex