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Good Oilfield Practice: its history and evolution The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 A Timothy Martin
Good Oilfield Practice sets the standards that oil and gas operators use to conduct their operations. This article provides a comprehensive, historical analysis of Good Oilfield Practice from its origins from more than a century ago to today’s modern global industry. It has constantly evolved to cover all facets of the oil and gas industry, which reflects the risk, complexity, and uncertainty associated
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Pathways to sustainable development: an overview of the progress and obstacles of hydroelectric power production in Angola The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Domingos Joaquim Francisco, Mikael Jhordan Lacerda Cordeiro, Daniel de Abreu Pereira Uhr, Júlia Gallego Ziero Uhr
This article offers an in-depth examination of the historical trajectory of Angola’s hydroelectric energy sector, contextualizing its evolution within the country’s political and economic landscape. It begins by tracing the origins of hydroelectric development. Subsequently, it delves into the post-independence era marked by political turmoil and civil conflict, elucidating the challenges faced by
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Oil exporters and the challenges ahead: the role of NOCs in energy transitions The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Nasser Alreshaid, Leonardo Sempertegui
While constructing pathways to achieving energy transitions is challenging to all global community members, this challenge is even greater for oil-exporting countries. Oil-exporting countries and their national oil companies (NOCs) are key players in the energy transitions. These actors’ existing capacities (financial, technical, human) must be leveraged to accelerate decarbonization processes that
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A relaxation of European derivatives clearing legislation as a consequence of the 2021–2023 energy crisis The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Randy Priem
This article discusses the update of the European Market Infrastructures Regulation as a consequence of the 2021–2023 energy crisis. This article explains European law decisions being made to ensure the continued functioning of European derivatives markets. The article focuses on the modification of the margin requirements of central counterparties (ie the decision to accept unsecured commercial bank
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Carbon capture and utilization under EU law: impermanent storage of CO2 in products and pre-combustion carbon capture The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Kim Talus, Reza Maddahi
The evolving regulatory landscape within the European Union demonstrates a transition from prioritizing carbon capture and storage over carbon capture and utilization towards a more equitable treatment of both approaches in relevant legislation and policy frameworks. Nevertheless, the ‘permanence’ criterion of carbon dioxide in the products remains an ongoing challenge. Within the current European
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Realism at the end of the rainbow? An argument towards diversifying hydrogen in EU regulation The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Kim Talus, Jaqueline Pinto, Francisca Gallegos
The European Union’s (EU) decarbonization strategy involves hydrogen as an integral pillar. Since hydrogen is a secondary energy carrier, meaning it must be manufactured, not all hydrogen is made equal. Renewable hydrogen or RFNBOs (Renewable Fuel of Non-Biological Origins) have been given high priority by the EU in their strategy to establish a market for hydrogen. The EU’s creation of RFNBO usage
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Türkiye’s nuclear energy aspirations: policy challenges and legal trajectory The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Onur Cagdas Artantas
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Türkiye’s nuclear energy aspirations, focusing on the historical evolution, international cooperation, organizational structure, legal framework, and policy dimensions. It elaborates on Türkiye’s endeavours to integrate nuclear energy into its national power infrastructure, particularly highlighting the progress made in the development of the Akkuyu
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The European energy crisis, the Dutch TTF, and the market correction mechanism: a financial markets perspective The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Ebbe Rogge
In September 2022, the Title Transfer Facility (TTF) prices spiked at unprecedented levels. For various reasons, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe was facing an energy crisis: gas supply was significantly reduced while demand remained unchanged. Policymakers responded with a variety of measures, including regulatory interventions on the TTF market. While seeking to improve the situation
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Harnessing EU legal concepts for the energy transition on islands The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Romain Mauger, Lea Diestelmeier, Ceciel Nieuwenhout
The European Commission plans to achieve the decarbonization of dozens of European Union (EU) islands by 2030. This would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower the dependency of islands on imported fuels, and potentially reduce local energy prices. At the same time, it may accelerate the mainland’s own energy transition through the import of surplus energy from renewable sources, the provision of
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Striking energy deals in disputed seas: the case of the Gaza Marine gas field The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Elai Rettig, Benny Spanier
In June 2023, Israel approved the development of Gaza Marine, a small offshore gas field near the Gaza Strip that has remained dormant since its discovery in 2000. The field can potentially benefit the Palestinian Authority (PA) in terms of export revenue and energy independence. However, the legal status of the field remains unclear, and the 2023 Israel–Hamas war further complicated this matter. On
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On the way to EU’s clean energy transition: new approaches and challenges for Gas Regulation in the EU The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Antonis Metaxas
Gas has long been omnipresent in EU energy mix. The challenges created by Russia’s war on Ukraine, coupled with the Union’s decarbonization objectives, place gaseous fuels overall into a new perspective. On the one hand, the use of natural gas, a fossil fuel, mainly imported until recently from Russia, needs to be alleviated. On the other hand, natural gas has acquired an interim but still important
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Nuclear energy in Brazil: regulation, corruption, and prospects for energy generation The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Mikael Jhordan Lacerda Cordeiro, Maurício Felipe Bemfica de Oliveira, Daniel de Abreu Pereira Uhr, Júlia Gallego Ziero Uhr
This article provides an overview of the historical development of the Brazilian nuclear regulatory environment and its implications for corruption in the nuclear energy sector. It explores Brazil's transition of nuclear energy policies from a military-centric approach to civilian perspectives following the country’s re-democratization in the 1980s. The article highlights the importance of nuclear
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Cyber and AI security challenges for LNG maritime transport and terminals—responses in law and standards The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Juei-Cheng Jao, Jason C T Chuah
This article considers how key state players in the maritime transport and storage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) face up to the cyber security threats which have sadly become ubiquitous in recent times. The cyber threat for the gas sector, with increasing investment in LNG and current geopolitics, makes the study especially acute.
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How transnational rules can contribute to the improvement of the Brazilian regulatory system for unitization—an analysis under the transnational legal order perspective The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Luciana Palmeira Braga, Helder Queiroz Pinto, Olavo Bentes David
Unitization is the most effective method to avoid irrational, wasteful and environmentally unsustainable production of oil and natural gas. Therefore, it is important to notice that unitization is a complex practice. It is effective for the equitable production division of a deposit shared by different owners. However, compulsory membership can result in costly negotiation and make exploration and
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Vietnam’s energy transition to 2050: is importing liquefied natural gas a good solution? The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Le Minh Thong, Tran Van Hiep
Energy and the environment are among the biggest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. The issue of the energy transition has become increasingly important as countries around the world seek to shift towards cleaner, more sustainable forms of energy. For a rapidly developing economy like Vietnam, the energy challenge becomes even more urgent. A reasonable energy transition strategy will be
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Implications of ‘net-zero emissions by 2050’ for the hydrocarbon industry: a case study of hydrogen in mature petroleum jurisdictions The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Tina Soliman Hunter, Jordie Pettit, Madeline Taylor
Climate change, and the need to wean the world off hydrocarbon sources of energy, will have a significant impact on the hydrocarbon industry, an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and which has been in existence for over a century. Even though the phasing out of hydrocarbons as an energy source is inevitable, the demise of the hydrocarbon industry is not. This study, demonstrates
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Capacity building fees provisions of the Kurdistan region production sharing contracts as a mandatory corporate social responsibility tool The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Rdhwan Shareef Salih
Due to corporate social responsibility (CSR), oil companies operate in socially responsible ways and engage more with local communities to ensure environmental protection and community welfare. In the past few years, the Kurdistan Region paid great attention to CSR. The main aim of this study is to provide a critical analysis of the CSR legal framework of the Kurdistan Region and survey the impact
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Energy consumer in the Cuban legal system: Towards comprehensive protection The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 José Grabiel Luis Cordova, Darlin Leidys Rodríguez Rivero
Nowadays, energy consumer protection must be a top priority in an energy crisis context. The State must fight energy vulnerability and energy poverty through all means. In this scenario, Law has crucial relevance to providing legal guarantees for energy access. In the Cuban legal order, energy consumer protection has new challenges and demands new perspectives. This article entitled: ‘Energy consumer
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Energy transition and Sustainable Development Goal 7: a legal analysis in the context of the Arab world The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Imad Antoine Ibrahim
Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) focuses on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. The hope is that its implementation will result in a much-needed energy transition. Nonetheless, its application, from a legal perspective, remains unclear given the aspirational nature of sustainable development goals. This article examines this issue using the Arab world as a case
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Power purchase agreements affected by unexpected circumstances: lessons from real litigation The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Gonzalo Vial
This article analyses different situations that impacted an electricity system and resulted in claims related to power purchase agreements affected by unexpected circumstances. The analysis allows reaching lessons with a global scope that are useful to prevent the mentioned disputes or to deal with them. It concludes that power purchase agreements must be drafted using clear language, avoiding ambiguous
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Decarbonizing the GCC: sustainability and life after oil and in GCC countries The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Jon Truby
Energy transition and decarbonization in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is crucial to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 and global climate objectives. This article first highlights the serious impact of the imminent and longer-term threats to the Gulf region caused by rising temperatures and climate change risks. As a shared problem, the article analyses how countries in the GCC are
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Repurposing for the just transition: energy companies need to future-proof their structure and strategy The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Raphael J Heffron
In order to achieve a just transition to a low-carbon economy, there is a need for large-scale and far-reaching organizational reform. In particular, this needs to happen with multi-national and state-owned energy companies. These firms play a key role in societies worldwide today, however, they are ignoring or neglecting their role in the energy transition and the wider movement towards achieving
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Setting a just economic value in Indonesia’s biomass program The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Sulistiowati Sulistiowati, Saiqa I Akbar
The Indonesian Government has targeted the new and renewable energy mix to achieve a minimum 23 per cent of the total energy use by 2025. Through its State Electricity Company (PLN) a Co-firing Program has been introduced by mixing 5–15 per cent of the biomass into its coal-fired steam power plants to be implemented in 2021 and 2022. However, the program appears to be unattractive for business due
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Energy transition challenges—traceability and verification The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Richard Taylor
The Energy Transition is underway, yet there are real challenges to the endeavour. The necessary, and welcome, incentives offered by governments to speed the transition and encourage innovation rely on a degree of traceability and verification that simply does not exist today, as it has not been necessary or even desirable in traditional hydrocarbon markets to date, save for in the aviation fuels space
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In the midst of so much injustice, can there be a seat for energy justice at the Nigerian table? The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Ayodele Morocco-Clarke
The end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st century recorded an increase in demands for accountability and justice on a plethora of levels. Social justice was a broad theme which was followed by environmental justice and climate justice. Energy justice is a relatively new phenomenon that advocates for the equitable sharing of both the benefits and burdens of energy sources and services. Nigeria
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Climate change and energy transition impact on employment transition in the Ghanaian energy sector The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Francisca Kusi-Appiah, Afia Serwaa Essandoh
The measures put in place by energy policymakers and regulators to reduce CO2 emissions encourage the switch from fossil fuels to the use of low-carbon fuels, particularly renewables. The research starts with a detailed content analysis of the climate change policies of Ghana within the electricity sector as well as a doctrinal analysis of the laws passed to implement climate change policies. The article
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The pros and cons of a global carbon tax at a single rate The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Alessandro Bacci
During 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), though differently, supported the idea that to effectively tackle climate change, it is necessary to introduce a global price on carbon emissions. Generally, a single-rate Global Carbon Tax (GCT) for all carbon emissions would probably be the
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Challenges in research approaches to the ‘just energy transition’ in legal studies and other branches of the social sciences The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Thomas L Muinzer
The ‘just energy transition’ (JET) is a concept that is starting to pervade climate and energy scholarship to a greater and greater degree at present. It is often difficult, however, to interpret clearly and precisely what this increasingly common term is intended to mean. This study explores the JET as a scholarly concept and as a compound discursive term, identifying problems that arise in research
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What oil and gas lawyers bring to the Energy Transition The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Kenyon S Weaver, Eric C Camp
This article argues that today’s oil and gas lawyers are very well prepared to become tomorrow’s energy lawyers. How the Energy Transition ultimately plays out in the coming decades is unknown. What is known is that the world will need immense new low and zero-carbon energy infrastructure: hydrogen, geothermal, carbon capture and sequestration, wind and solar. This article proposes seven areas where
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Energy in the European Green Deal: impacts and recommendations for MENA countries The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Robert Rybski
The European Union (EU) presented its new and ambitious programme at the end of 2019—the European Green Deal (EGD), which should align its economy to reach the goal of climate neutrality in 2050. A vital part of the deal aims for the energy sector within the leitmotif of supplying clean, affordable and secure energy. Because energy-related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions accounted in 2020 for three-quarters
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Fuel subsidy reform, decentralized electricity markets and renewable energy trade: evidence for a successful energy transition in the Middle East and North Africa Region The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Tanya Leila Shaar, Rafael Leal-Arcas
The past few decades have witnessed widespread attempts by the international community to combat rising global temperatures. Without a doubt, instruments such as the Paris Agreement have proven essential in fighting climate change by promoting the use of renewable energy and energy transitions. Problematically, regions that rely heavily on fossil fuel consumption, such as the Middle East and North
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Mitigating the risk of disputes in the renewable energy sector in North Africa: Lessons learned from solar energy claims brought against European States The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Ahmed Abdel-Hakam
Over the past 20 years, in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuel generated power, States have been trying to shift to renewable energy by devising attractive and favourable regulations in order to attract foreign investment in a sector that requires significant amounts of capital that usually needs to be frontloaded. This article aims to provide an overview of claims brought against a number
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ESG and investment arbitration: a future with cleaner foreign investment? The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Nelson Goh
The importance of mitigating climate change, upholding good social policies and good governance have led to the rise and use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the world of finance and investment. Banks, funds and other financial institutions have increasingly sought to measure whether the investments they make promote ESG. This will invariably permeate the world of foreign investment
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The financial aspects of offshore decommissioning and Brazilian regulatory system in the light of the transnational legal order The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Luciana Braga, Helder Pinto
This article discusses the financial aspects of offshore decommissioning, highlighting the regulatory challenges to balance public interest protection and investment attraction. The Brazilian regulatory system for offshore decommissioning is chosen to exemplify how Brazil is tackling these issues. To detail this system, this article adopts the Transnational Legal Order approach, by Halliday and Shaffer
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Framework and content of energy transition in Southeast Asia with ASEAN and the EU The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Winfried Huck, Jennifer Maaß, Saparya Sood, Tahar Benmaghnia, Sarah Maylin Heß
According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, energy transition and globally collaborative solutions play a crucial role in mitigating or preferably preventing human-induced global warming. Factual, legal, security policy and economic determinants shape the field of energy use, energy transition as well as tied climate change policy. Both Association of Southeast
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The development of natural gas in Asia—the results of the forecast scenarios of the POLES model The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Minh Thong Le
Many studies have shown the important role of natural gas in worldwide energy transition to gradually reduce the impacts on climate change. Asia is considered the centre of future gas demand growth. With a view to demonstrating the role of natural gas in the energy transition in Asia, this article will analyse the results from the scenarios forecasting the development of natural gas based on the Prospective
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Bringing state capacity into the debate: a key for energy transition in emerging economy The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Poppy S Winanti, Wawan Mas’udi
As energy consumption increases, adopting an energy transition policy has significantly intensified. The existing literature mainly argues that energy transition’s success entails ‘energy democracy’, which integrates social justice and economic equity with renewable transitions. Even though energy democracy has its merit in ensuring the energy transition, it ignores state capacity, especially in emerging
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Energy law in crisis: an energy justice revolution needed The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Raphael J Heffron
Energy research has been growing in a holistic way whereby researchers are connecting their research to the bigger picture of an ‘energy system’. Energy law scholarship has lacked this direction and traditionally has focused too narrowly on specific topics such as electricity markets or extraction. A major limitation has permeated through scholarship in the area and relatively no connection is made
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Energy justice in Japan’s energy transition: pillars of just 2050 carbon neutrality The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Maciej M Sokołowski, Satoshi Kurokawa
Energy justice is a topic that is currently being explored by energy law experts around the world and used across several academic fields in energy research. However, we note that this concept is quite novel in Japan (there have been no substantial publications published in either English or Japanese) and could be expanded. This is especially important in light of Japan’s aspirations to achieve carbon
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Towards a just energy transition: a critical analysis of the existing policies and regulations in Europe The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Íñigo del Guayo,Álvaro Cuesta
Abstract The concept of just transition is included in the texts that establish the energy policy of the European Union (EU), in particular in the texts relating to the European Green Deal. The idea refers to the need to compensate the inhabitants of those regions where coal-fired power plants or coalmines are closed, to try to maintain employment and activity. There is a proposal for a regulation
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The profit petroleum-sharing arrangement: legal complications of profit petroleum-sharing provisions of the Kurdistan Region production sharing contracts The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Rdhwan S Salih
Abstract The method for sharing the profit petroleum between the host State and the contractor is one of the major topics in Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs). Profit petroleum generally can be split between a contractor and the host State based on fixed shares or the sliding scale method. This study has the principal aim of critically analysing and arguing the provisions of the Kurdistan Region
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Legislation for renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities in Austria: changes from the legislative draft to the finally enacted law The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Bernadette Fina,Carolin Monsberger
Abstract Based on the European guidelines—the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and the Electricity Market Directive (EMD)—legislation to enable Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) and Citizen Energy Communities (CECs) is currently being developed in individual European countries. In July 2021, Austria, as one of the first countries in Europe, enacted legislation on both, RECs and CECs. A previous study
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Electronic Alternative Dispute Resolution, smart contracts and equity in the energy sector The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Zeenat Beebeejaun,Alessio Faccia
Abstract The intrinsic complex nature of Contracts in the Energy sector leads to frequent international disputes. The complexity is generated by (i) the involvement of multiple stakeholders with potentially conflicting interests (Multinational Companies, State-Owned Companies, Host States and their citizens); (ii) transnational jurisdictions divergence (local laws, investor’s country laws, international
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Energy justice in a net-zero world The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Joseph P Tomain
Net-zero energy (NZE) plans have been announced by federal and state governments, international corporations and domestic utilities, and by think tanks and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). These plans often identify one or more of the five dimensions of energy justice. This article finds that individual NZE plans emphasize different dimensions of energy justice. Think tanks, as an example, address
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Does the politics matter? Legal and political economy analysis of contracting decisions in Ghana’s upstream oil and gas industry The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Stephens T, Acheampong T.
AbstractGhana is often cited as one of Africa’s most stable democracies. Since 2004, the country has awarded 18 petroleum agreements to various international oil companies (IOCs) and their local partners to explore for hydrocarbons in its offshore basins. In 2010, Ghana became an oil-producing country following earlier commercial discoveries in 2007. Nevertheless, the likelihood of the Ghanaian State
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Case C-848/19 P: Germany v Poland and its outcomes for EU energy sector: an extended case note on the European Court of Justice judgment in the OPAL caseJudgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 15 July 2021, C-848/19 P, Germany v Poland, ECLI:EU:C:2021:598 The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Iakovenko M.
AbstractThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgment in the so-called Ostsee-Pipeline-Anbindungsleitung (OPAL) case on 15 July 2021 dismissed Germany’s appeal on the previous European Union (EU) General Court’s decision, which focused on the need for considering national interests of EU Member States and the interests of the Union itself in the decisions by the EU institutions in energy sector to acknowledge
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Energy transition and green energy: the struggle for climate and for a new redivision of the world—and the proposal for a balanced Russia–EU solution The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Konoplyanik A.
ABSTRACTThe author argues that current energy transition is the seventh one in the long-term history of the mankind though different from the previous ones. He explains why Paris Agreement (the ‘no return point’ for current energy transition) has grown from the 1970s. He explains the role of hydrogen in current energy transition and three different paths for H2 production: water electrolysis; methane
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The clash of ‘E’ and ‘S’ of ESG: just transition on the path to net zero and the implications for sustainable corporate governance and finance The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Gözlügöl A.
AbstractClimate change is one of the highest-ranking issues on the political and social agenda. Corporations are one of the main actors that will play a major role in the decarbonization of the economy. They need to put forward a net zero strategy and targets, transitioning to net zero by 2050. Yet, an important but rather overlooked stakeholder group in the sustainability debates can pose a significant
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Engagement with risk-exposed neighbours: the track record of nuclear newbuild and newcomer states The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Yao L, Andrews-Speed P.
AbstractSeveral international norms oblige governments of countries planning to build nuclear installations to proactively consult potentially affected countries in a timely manner. These norms arise from customary international law, the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS), the guidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and regional treaties and international environmental law. This
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Roberts Peter, Drafting and Negotiating Petroleum Royalty Agreements The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Jared F.
RobertsPeter, Drafting and Negotiating Petroleum Royalty Agreements, Globe Law and Business, ISBN 9781787427983, 120 pages.
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Eureka! A Petroleum Transactions Guide that Delivers The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-30 Nadorff N.
AndersonOwen L, EmeritusEugene Kuntz Chair and LynnGeorge, WeaverJacqueline L., WhiteA.A., DzienkowskiJohn S, LoweJohn S, HallKeith B and SourgensFrédéric Gilles, International Petroleum Law and Transactions, Rocky Mount Mineral Law Federation, 2020.
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Driving forces behind open acreage resource allocation systems for petroleum upstream activities: a comparative assessment between Brazil, Colombia, India and Uruguay The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Mariano J, Szklo A, Draeger R.
ABSTRACTFacing flattening international oil prices in the next years (due to a combination of changing industry fundamentals, pandemics effects and the challenges of the global low-carbon energy transition), oil frontier countries are reviewing their petroleum exploration and production fiscal systems to increase their attractiveness to private investment. This article analyses certain open resource
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Resilience, reliability and gas to power systems in the USA: an energy policy outlook in the era of decarbonization The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Tade Oyewunmi
This article examines the requirements of resilience and reliability for gas to power systems planning in an era of decarbonization. It recongizes that energy transitions and decarbonization portend an increasing competition between various traditional and emerging net-zero, carbon neutral and low-carbon energy sources and technologies. Likewise, energy policy development has traditionally focused
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Is the German Nuclear strategy lawful under EU law? Article 194(2) TFEU and its limitations The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Gustavo Rochette, Elena Vela
Germany streamlined its nuclear phase-out policy following the Fukushima Daishi nuclear accident, planning to decommission all of its nuclear capacity by 2022. As a member of the EU, although Germany is entitled to determine its own energy mix pursuant to Article 194(2) of the TFEU, this policy may conflict with other EU legislation and jurisprudence relevant to the EU energy sector. In particular
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Up To Heaven and Down To Hell by Colin Jerolmack The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Carmalt Samuel
ColinJerolmackUp To Heaven and Down To Hell by ColinJerolmack, Princeton University Press, 2021, ISBN 13: 9780691179032, ISBN 10: 0691179034, 272 pp.
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The energy security and insecurity of Bangladesh: a critical analysis The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky
The last five years have seen Bangladesh making good progress in adding various energy mixes to its supply of energy for domestic consumption. The GDP of the country grew at 8 per cent in the year before the pandemic. This was possible due to certain policy-level decisions by the government to increase the production of energy, implementing short-term projects for electricity generation and the flexibility
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The Energy Charter process in the face of uncertainties The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Belyi A.
Just about a decade ago, the Energy Charter belonged to some specialized expertise of energy lawyers as well as of interested business and policies milieus. However, in recent years a broader interest in the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) spurred as the pressure has been mounting on the European Union (EU) and its Member States to abandon the document. The climate neutrality objectives declared by the
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A morphological analysis of energy policy analysis research—emerging issues and concerns The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Govindarajan H, L.S. G.
AbstractMorphological analysis (MA) is a reliable technique for identifying research opportunities in policy analysis. This article presents a MA of the energy policy analysis literature of over four decades of research to enable structured understanding of the field. A three-stage research method has been adopted to identify and review journal articles and research publications. The MA affirms that
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Corporate social responsibility and joint venture governance—the forgotten issues The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Fowler R.
AbstractCorporate social responsibility is moving from a ‘soft law’ phase when international companies are expected to develop and follow voluntary codes of good practice on issues such as human rights, modern slavery, environmental protection and climate change, and into a phase of ‘hard law’ and enforceable duties of care. This article looks ahead to the issues that such new laws will create for
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Is the lack of exploration by Petrobangla hurting Bangladesh? An analysis The Journal of World Energy Law & Business (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-20 Siddiky C.
AbstractA prolonged gas crisis has led to stagnation in Bangladesh’s manufacturing sector, which in turn has lowered the country’s GDP. Although 1000–1500 MW of installed power capacity remains idle, the government has not been able to use this redundant capacity to its advantage. To the dismay of many experts, new gas connections to meet industrial needs have been suspended for the last 8 years. This