International Petroleum Contracts: Current Trends and New Directions - International Energy & Resources Law and Policy Series Set

Publisher Marketing: This book analyzes the development policies behind the evolution of various arrangements for international petroleum exploitation. By studying examples of the principal categories of petroleum arrangements in four representative developing countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil and China), this study examines in particular the issues of recent trends and new directions in contractual development and environmental sustainability that are reflected in both the structure and substance of the modern petroleum contracts that have emerged since the 1950s. Modern petroleum contracts are generally able to achieve a greater commerciality and mutuality of interests, but they have failed to produce a necessary balance between resources extraction and environmental sustainability. The future direction for petroleum agreements is that they must explicitly recognize the inherent interdependence of commercial viability and sustainable development. Contributor Bio:  Gao Dr. Jian Gao is the Vice Governor of China Development Bank (CDB). Before moving to CDB, he worked in different Departments of the Ministry of Finance for sixteen years. Throughout his career, Dr. Jian Gao has made many outstanding contributions to the formation of China's Treasury bond market and has led a transition of CDB's issuing format from administrative placement to market-oriented selling. Over the years, he has introduced new instruments in the market and initiated a series of financial innovations to boost its liquidity. He attended Beijing University of Political Science & Law for graduate studies, received his PhD in economics at the Institute of Public Finance, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University.