COMPARATIVE STUDY OF UNITIZATION OF OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN IRAN AND USA

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1 Assistant Professor University of Tehran, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

2 Phd Student in Oil and gas Law, University of Tehran, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

3 Master of Private Law, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd Branch

Abstract

One of main topics of oil and gas law as a branch of public law is shared/common/transboundary reservoirs expanded across the borders of a country and located in common boundaries of two or more neighboring countries. This matter isn’t mentioned in the Iranian constitution. The method of management of these common resources has an important significance and various methods are employed in this relation. One of the most and best ways for operation and exploitation of these common fields is concluding unitization agreement between the two neighboring countries by which beneficiaries of that common field conclude an agreement. In this research we surveyed the use of unitization of oil and gas analytically, descriptively and comparatively in the legal and executive procedures of both Iran and the United States and finally we suggested some offers by comparing these two legal systems. Since Iran has many shared oil and gas field with its neighbors, it is necessary that oil ministry of Iran as the main arranger of upstream and downstream activities in the Iranian oil and gas industry, should arrange and provide legal and political requirements and structures for unitizing and operating these fields in the best manner.

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Volume 5, Issue 2
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October 2020
Pages 335-355

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