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NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
MASTER OF LAWS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW PROGRAMME (LL.M)
MASTER’S THESIS
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN OIL AND GAS CONTRACTS LAW: AN ANALYSIS
KAREEM KAWA KAREEM
NICOSIA
2017
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NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
MASTER OF LAWS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW PROGRAMME (LL.M)
MASTER’S THESIS
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN OIL AND GAS CONTRACTS LAW: AN ANALYSIS
KAREEM KAWA KAREEM Student No: 20157000
Supervisor
DR. TUTKU TUGYAN
NICOSIA
2017
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NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
MASTER OF LAWS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW PROGEAMME (LLM) Thesis Defence
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN OIL AND GAS CONTRACTS LAW We certify the thesis is satisfactory for the award of degree of master of laws in
International Law
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Faculty of Law
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Öz
Petrol ve gaz endüstrisi, küresel ve çok yönlü karakterinden yola çıkarak, artık olağan dışı değildir. Bir anlaşmayı kapatmaya çalışma sırasında tartışmanın ortaya çıkması durumunda neyin meydana gelebileceği pek de fark edilemez. Tehlike içeren ve parçalanmış müteahhitlik, enerji santralleri, petrol ve gaz boru hatları ve yoğun doğal gaz tesisleri gibi geniş ölçekli teşebbüslerin elde edilmesi ve finansmanında doğan örgütsel ilişkinin temel noktasıdır. Gaz bağlarının incelenmesi, yasal olarak bağlayıcı yetersizliklerin tehlikeyi belirleyen sonuçlarla ilgili kesin kanıt sunmaktadır.
Bu tez, "petrol ve gaz" yasası dediğimiz disiplinin temel bir incelemesidir. Kusurların bir kısmı bu
"özel" statüyle bağlantılıdır. "Nadir" statüsü hukuk ile ilgilidir. Mahkemeler, "petrol ve gaz kanunu"
fikirleri arayışında temel sözleşme, mülk veya kanun yasağından ayrıldıkça, hukuki kusurlar oluştu. Bu hayret, petrol ve gaz kanunlarıyla sınırlı olmamakla birlikte herhangi bir "kanun" düzenlemesinde olabilir. Bu çalışma petrol ve gaz kirliliği kapsamında "sonuçlandırılan anlaşmaların" algılanması ve uygulanmasıyla başa çıkmak için yasal yolları inceleyerek petrol ve doğal gaz kanunuyla ilgili konulardan bahsetmektedir Petrol ve doğal gaz altındaki tecrübelerin ve sonuçların bir anlaşma kanuni soruşturması sonucunda ortaya çıkmasına karşıt olarak, belirli "petrol ve gazın" yönettiğinin hayati ya da ihtiyatlı olup olmadığının değerlendirilmesi düşünülebilir.
Geçtiğimiz çeyrek asırda hukuk müşavirlerinin mücadele etme biçimlerinde büyük değişiklikler oldu.
Sistem yaratma gayretleri konusunda seyrek çabalar gösterildi, daha yetkin, çok pahalı olmayan, ancak şefaat ve diğer "alternatif uyuşmazlık çözümü" (ADR) yaklaşımlarının daha geniş ve uygun kullanımı da dahil olmak üzere, mücadelenin kararlı bir şekilde belirlenmesi açısından yaygınlaştı. Bu çalışma hükümet ve eyalet mahkemelerinde, ticaret bölümünde, iş yerlerinde ve alışveriş ortamlarında ADR'nin gelişimi ve etkisi hakkında bilinmeyen ve incelenmemiş unsurları analiz etmektedir. İnceleme ADR ile mahkeme davası arasındaki ilişkiyi incelerken, ayrıca şefaat ve farklı süreç kararlarının mantıksallaştırılması ve daha kapsamlı istihdamın altını çizmektedir. Bu çalışma, ADR tarafından soruşturulan petrol ve gaz sözleşmesine odaklanmaktadır.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Hukuk, alternatif uyuşmazlık çözümü, ADR, petrol ve gaz, Sözleşme, Anlaşma,
Anlaşmazlık, Çözüm, Tehlike, ilişki, Hukuk ile ilgili, Düzenleme, uzman.
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Abstract
The industry of oil and gas is not peculiar to question anymore, inferable from the global condition as well as its various dimensions. While trying to complete an agreement procedure, it would barely be clear to expect the thing that could happen in the emergence of a debate. Hazard moving and fragmented contracting lie at the heart of the organization relationship innate in the obtainment and financing of extensive scale undertakings, such as power plants, oil and gas pipelines, and condensed natural gas facilities. An examination of gas bonds gives exact proof of the hazard moving results of legally binding inadequacy.
This thesis is a basic examination of the discipline we call the law of oil and gas. A number of the imperfections connected with this "specific" status. Jurisprudential with its "uncommon" status.
Jurisprudential imperfections have created as courts leave from essential contract, property, or tort law in quest for natural resources ideas. The marvel isn’t restricted to natural resources law but instead can occur in any "law of" setting. This article delineates the issues connected with oil and gas law by dissecting legal ways to deal with perceiving and applying "inferred agreements" under the oil and gas rent. By contrasting the experience and results under the oil and gas lead to the result under an agreement law investigation, it is conceivable to assess whether a specific "oil and gas" govern is vital or prudent.
In the past quarter-century, huge changes have happened in the ways legal advisors approach strife.
There have been uncommon endeavors to create systems went for more proficient, not so much expensive, but rather more fulfilling determination of contention, including more broad and suitable utilization of intercession and other " alternative dispute resolution " (ADR) approaches. This review analyzes what is known and not considered about the development and effect of ADR in government and state courts, in the business division, and in work and shopper settings. The investigation inspects the relationship amongst ADR and court trial, additionally underlines the more extensive employments of and method of reasoning for intercession and different process decisions. This study concentrates on the oil and gas contract with question by ADR.
Key words: Law, alternative dispute resolution ADR, oil and gas, Contract, Agreement, Dispute,
Resolution, Hazard, relationship, Jurisprudential, Organization, specialist.
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Acknowledgements
I raise my heart in praise and thanks to the Almighty GOD without whose help, grace and enlightenment, this work would not have been a reality today.
I express my genuine appreciation to my guides Assist.Prof.Dr. Resat Volkan Gunel and Dr. Tutku Tugyan And Prof. Hamza Ruso, for their scholarly interventions, instructions, constant encouragement, timely corrections and kind attention.
To my beloved wife which I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to her (Nashmil), for all her support without her I would not be able to do anything, Which was facing many hardships because of my studying, and to my lovely son, Kian.
To my Sister Nazanin, she is always a big supporter for me and my Family and friends It's their support which leads me to complete my study.
I am grateful to Near East University for giving me the opportunity to carry out my study and research work in this esteemed institution. I wish to offer my gratitude to all the teaching staff members including Faculty of Law and non-teaching staff members and student friends of the University for their kind support and help whenever required.
To those who supported me during studying my Master and preparing this thesis.
To all who reads this thesis and getting benefit from it.
Place: Nicosia Cyprus Kareem Kawa Kareem
Date: 15.01.2017 Researcher
P refa ce
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Several discussions regarding the industry of oil and gas became more frequently encountered as the issue has spread worldwide along with its dimensional nature. Disputes, which are also called disagreements in legal or political terms when the statement of one party is denied, refused or counter-claimed by another party, can be easily overcome in case of closing a contract. They are included in the international category in case they contain various parties from all along the world. This Dissertation has been drafted with an aim of making complex interpretation of Oil and Gas Contract enumerated in International Law and interesting for any law student or a layman.
I have tried to explain every Contract relating to Gas and Oil with the procedure and dispute settlement in context of its evolution, its wordings and its interpretation given by the judiciary to fit to the needs of society from time to time. If a law student or any reader wishes to understand the concept of Contract on oil and gas, then he will obviously have certain questions in mind, the dissertation assumes those questions and answers them throughout. I am sure the dissertation will be of great use for anybody who wants to know the detailed analysis of oil and gas contract in international and Kurdistan and Iraq, UAE . I assume it will take the readers through the journey of Contract with dispute settlement from its raw form of debates and discussion in its framing to its modem contemporary application by the regulatory body of the above mention country. It explains the bare provisions and also the life which has been added to it by virtue of the research and deliberation of the convention and there member states on international level with their efforts and the state bodies like Iraq and UAE etc.
This dissertation would not have been produced without invaluable support and assistance of Prof. Hamza Ruso and Dr. Resat Volkan, I am indeed grateful to them. I am also thankful to my family without their support this work could not have been completed, Lastly I thank all the authors whose work I have used to give explanation of the concepts in t h i s book.
Kareem Kawa Kareem
Abbreviations List
ACTM Antarctec Treaaty Consultative Meeting AEPS Arctiec Environmintal Protection Strateigy
ALI Institute of American Law
ALIDES Central American Alleance for Sustainaible Devilopment
BAT Best available technologies
BNA Bureau of National Affairs (Washington, DC)
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CCDA Central American Commission of Environment and Development
CMM Clean development mechanism
CE Council of Europe
CCE Commission for Environmental Cooperation (North American)
EEC Central and Eastern Europe
CLE Commission on Environmental Law (IUCN)
BCD Convention on Biological Diversity
RCCAML Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
ELC Environmental Law Commission (IUCN)
IBD Inter-American Development Bank
DII Institute de Droit International
EIT International emissions trading
KRG Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Table of Contents
Özet...III Abstract...VIII Acknowledgements ... IX Preface... IX
Abbreviations List... 11
Table of Contents………..………..……….…..Error! Bookmark not defined. CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION ... 15
Introduction ... 15
1.2 Contracts between Oil and Gas Companies ... 18
1.3 Petroleum Workers and Service Contractors... 18
1.4 Alternative Dispute Resolution ... 19
1.5 Non-Binding ADR... 20
1.6 Binding ADR ... 21
1.7 Scope of Study... 21
1.8 Aims and Objective of Studies ... 22
1.9 Hypothesis ... 23
1.10 Research Methodology ... 23
1.11 Scheme of Chpterization ... 24
CHAPTER TWO ... 26
MEANING AND CONCEPT OF OIL AND GAS CONTRACT... 26
2.1 Introduction ... 26
2.2 What is meant by a contract?... 29
2.3 What is an oil and gas contract? ... 30
2.4 Traditional Concession Contracts... 30
2.5 The Modern Concession Agreement ... 31
2.6 The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) ... 35
2.7 Service Agreements ... 37
2.8 The Participation Agreement ... 39
2.9 Petroleum Agreemints Different and Inveistment Agreements ... 42
2.10 The Nature Legality of Petroleum contracts... 42
2.11 Petroleum Agreement as Private Contract... 45
2.12 Petroleum Contracts - A Blend of Private and Public Law Highlights ... 46
2.13 Summary... 47
CHAPTER THREE CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF ARBITRATION ... 49
3.1 Introduction ... 49
3.2. A Global Overview of Host States’ Attitudes towards Arbitration ... 53
3.3 The Latin American Attitude with Regard to Arbitration ... 54
3.4 The Attitudes of African Countries towards Arbitration ... 59
3.5 The Asian Pacific Attitude towards Arbitration ... 60
3.6 The Attitude of Middle East Countries towards Arbitration ... 62
3.7.1 Arbitration in Iraq ... 64
3.7.2 The Position of International Commercial Arbitration in Iraqi National Laws ... 65
3.7.3 The Draft International Commercial Arbitration Law ... 66
3.7.4 Regulations for Implementing Government Contracts... 67
3.8 The Regional and International Conventions ... 67
3.9 The Practice ... 69
3.10 Oil and Gas disputes and Arbitration ... 71
Arbitration versus Government Courts for oil and gas dispute resolution ... 71
3.11 Contract for arbitration ... 76
CHAPTER FOUR ... 78
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LEGAL REGIME OF OIL AND GAS NORTH IRAQ, CHINA AND INDIA ... 78
4.1 Gas and Oil Law of The North-Iraq Region... 78
4.2 Material Scope of the Act ... 79
4.3 Title to Petroleum and Government Rights ... 79
4.4 The Regional Council ... 80
4.5 Competencies of the Minister and the Ministry ... 80
4.6 Framework... 81
4.7 Public Entity Regulations ... 82
4.8 Income Administration And Uncommon Portions ... 82
4.8.1 Kurdistan Oil Put Stock In Organization (KOTO) ... 82
4.8.2 Cooperation with Federal Government ... 83
4.9 Authorizations ... 84
4.10 Rights and Responsibilities Of Authorized Persons ... 87
4.11 Production Sharing Contract ... 89
4.12Unitization of Reservoirs within the Region ... 93
4.13 Conflict Resolution... 95
First, the Minister of Labour to resolve conflicts that arise between people working in the oil and approval processes, whether these conflicts: -... 95
4.14 Oil and Gas Regulations in China ... 98
4.15The Laws Regarding Oil and Gas United Arab Emirates ... 101
4.16 Oil And Gas Regime In Norway ... 103
4.17 Case of Dana gas company and Kurdistan Government in London court ... 105
4.18 Other Dispute... 107
Chapter five Conclusion and Suggestions ... 110
5.1. Conclusion ... 110
5.2 Suggestions ... 112
Bibliography ... 114
CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Introduction
The industry of oil and gas is not peculiar to question anymore, inferable from the global condition as well as its various dimensions. While trying to complete an agreement procedure, it would barely be clear to expect the thing that could happen in the emergence of a debate.
1A question can be characterized as a contradiction concerning an obvious reality, legal aspects or a case in which one statement is refused, disapproved or counter-claimed by the other party. At the point when a difference includes parties in various parts of the world, the debate is said to be global. The oil and gas industry has been acquainted with question as far back as the initially bored oil well in 1859 in Pennsylvania, when Colonel Drake fell into debate with his nearby providers of products and enterprises.
The business is a worldwide market, as specified above, with those included possibly having resources scattered in a wide range of nations. Large portions of the agreements made are long haul in their temperament, including various partners, and can be especially mind boggling, both in fact and lawfully.
2Authoritative debate can cost oil and gas organizations a huge number of pounds, in their benefit as well as regarding both the harm caused to notoriety and the potential for destroying future joint endeavors. Both these outcomes have more serious, some of the time immaterial, impacts which may all alone constitute obstructions which are hard to overcome.
The oil and gas industry is university in it elements, where dependable connections are favored and arrangements are looked for with least disturbance to existing connections what's more, ventures. Along these lines, debating parties have no craving to end or stop their exercises, and once the question is settled they would regularly wish to proceed with a business relationship.
1Talaat Al-Kawshani, 2003 ( Contracts of Oil and Gas area ), Tehran.p.201.(Persian language)
2It is possible that governments, juristic or private people and institutions are included within disputes
Debate for the most part emerge when an issue happens which has not been establish for and concurred on in the essential understanding between the gatherings, whether this is a postponement in the conveyance of gear, sea limit issues, an issue with an indigenous group or a surprising pipeline occurrence, for example, the late British Petroleum (BP) calamity.
3Oil and gas is a standout amongst the most debate escalated enterprises on the planet and the sorts of question emerging from pertinent contracts incorporate question among administrators, non- administrators and joint ventures in property securing, investigation improvements, suppl y and advertising courses of action and development ventures, among others.
4The potential for question is additionally elevated incredibly by the diminishing oil saves in the shallow seaside waters and the requirement for the business to look for beforehand undiscovered assets encourage away from home, for instance in the Arctic. It in this way turns out to be progressively essential to have clear techniques for question determination which detail the decision of discussion and the decision of law. In the UKCS, there are two main systems to determine legally binding question: casual exchange and formal discourse. The previous procedure happens when the gatherings, normally from senior administration, meet and look to address in compliance with common decency the issues in question with a view to getting early and casual determination. This procedure typically occurs in the early phase of a question, thus the gatherings may inquiry the requirement for an arrangement in an assention which discusses what they may see as a plainly obvious prerequisite.
An arrangement in the agreement to determine question through casual means will once in a while discuss a lot about the way of connection of the component, this is because doing as such is conflicting with the way of such an instrument. Another system, which is formally known, is Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). It is a strategy based on intervention inside an organized
3Talat Al-Kawshani, supra note 1, 207
4www.bp.com/managedlistingsection.do?categoryId=9033573&contentId, Accessed Jun 8, 2016.
procedure, including an outsider regulator with or without a forced result, contingent upon the picked technique. ADR as a rule does not block encourage asset to discretion or prosecution if no settlement is come to between the gatherings and therefore is mainstream. Albeit many questions are these days being settled through arrangement, generally, court case has been the medium of decision to settle debate in light of the estimation of cash included and the suspicion that a court judgment would give conviction. By and by, for the reasons sketched out beneath, case may not be the most appropriate technique to serve the necessities of the business players.
5Gone to the Alternative question Resolution by the method for Arbitration it is the piece of Alternative Dispute Resolution and a matter break down by method for common assent. In numerous a nations they have their own laws with respect to mediation despite the fact that on worldwide level they have their global Arbitration tribunal for the unraveling the question in regards to oil and gas organization.
The portion of the data in regards to Arbitration and contract are as per the following.
The potential for debate happening in the industry of oil and gas stays high. It is not amazing to have the respect towards the bunch authoritative connections as well as the colossal expenses of hydrocarbon investigation and misuse.
This study is going to research the basics of the way of the International Commercial Arbitral process, the importance of assertion to the petroleum business and the utilization of intervention in the distinctive connections and authoritative courses of action in the industry of oil and gas.
This will be followed by taking a gander at the creating types of option debate determination, which is also called "ADR", and its implementations in terms of an apparatus of question determination in the oil business. At long last it will examine some debate minimization and evasion measures at present being used in the business and close by evaluating the difficulties
5Talat Al-Kawshani, supra note 1,p.44.
confronting the Lagos Regional Center in its target of turning into the Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration in Sub-Sahara Africa.
1.2 Contracts between Oil and Gas Companies
By and large the agreement implies a legitimate understanding between the gatherings which is uphold by the law. Basic sorts of agreements amongst Oil and Gas are Unitization Agreements and contracts allowing Outsider Access to oil handle offices. The Unitization settlement is an assention by the proprietors of a solitary petroleum square which reaches out dividing to more part permit zone to build up that area as a solitary unit. Generally alluded to as "Unit Operating Agreement", the Unitization Agreement typically incorporates every one of the arrangements of a customary JOA, withal extra formerly which are planned to set up the privileges of the individual gatherings to creation from the area. An ordinary condition likewise assention keeps running as takes after:
6the rights and enthusiasm of the gatherings under the licenses are thusly unitised as per the arrangements of this Agreement in so far all things considered rights and intrigue relate to the Unitised Zone and each of the gatherings might possess all unit property and unitised petroleum in unified partakes in extent to its Unit Equity.
1.3 Petroleum Workers and Service Contractors
The rundown of administrations gave by Contractors to Operators in the oil and gas industry is unending, extending from significant development and apparatus renting contracts to minor supply contracts. Mediation conditions are a typical element of agreements in this class, with the Operator regularly giving standard types of agreement.
7However where the Contractor is giving very specific administrations or plant and gear, there is probably going to be extraordinary arrangement between the gatherings on the substance of the
6Otighearney Tony, Strong Contracts for Strong Field,2011,Leeds.p.138.
7www.chevron.com/documents/ ecuador/SDNYRestrainingOrder. [Accessed April 8, 2016].
Arbitration Agreement, for example in Mobile Production Unit Agreements. Portable Production Units (MPUs) i.e. Lift Rigs, Semisubmersible Drilling Rigs and Floating, Production, Storage and Off take offices, are offices which can be quickly prepared and retired requiring little to no effort.These MPUs are regularly the subject of renting game plans between the Contractor/Owner and oil organizations. Against this foundation, as the gatherings are probably going to be ready to go together for quite a while and considering the enormous sums in question, an arbitral procedure is frequently deliberately consulted to determine any debate emerging amid the life of the agreement.
81.4 Alternative Dispute Resolution
The ADR methods have been developed as a part of the thought that Arbitration is considered as a costly reflection of litigation while it could not be successful in terms of its flexibility or speed.
9ADR techniques are shifted and include:
Intercession,
Conciliation
Smaller than expected trial
non-restricting Expert Finding
restricting Expert Determination
Last Offer Arbitration.
The ADR methodology expressed in above is non-authoritative while strategies are official.
9Rigea Autunoma De Electrcitate Renel v. Gulf Petrleom International Ltd (1996) 1 Lloyds Rep. 67.
The developing acknowledgment and significance of non-curial debate determination can't be exaggerated. In the UK, the Woolf Report on access to common equity and the resulting decree of the new polite strategy rules which happened yesterday i.e. Monday, 26 April 1999, is affirmation to the tremendous importance that even the Court structure associates with ADR strategies. The new UK common methodology rules 1999 inclination the court to successfully direct cases and gain ground for"urging the social affairs to use an alternative question assurance strategy if the Court considers that appropriate and empowering the use of such technique"11. the enlightened view today tends towards bringing ADR into the standard of level headed discussion assurance.
Since ADR can provoke to early assurance of verbal confrontation, it might be said that a lawyer who did option question determination methodology if the court believe that appropriate and encouraging the use of such procedure.10. the illuminated view today tends towards bringing ADR into the standard of civil argument assurance. Since ADR can incite to early assurance of civil argument, it might be said that a lawyer who did not give in the gatherings' agreement to ADR to happen preceding the initiation of lawful procedures or case, has done his customer a damage.
In accordance with this approach, discretion foundations, for example, the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chambers of Commerce (the ICC), ICSID and UNCITRAL have all grasped ADR strategy and distributed Conciliation Rules.
111.5 Non-Binding ADR
Mediation – The mediator, whom the parties opt for, is defined as the individual who enables the integrity, has the adequate skills in order to help the parties in a dispute, where a settlement is
10Otighearney , Supra note 6,p.152.
11Consolidation in International Commercial Arbitration - Lara Pair Call Number: Law Main Stacks K2400 .P335 2012 ,Date: 2016-03-28
negotiated. This assistance renders a conflict easier and has a good performance in management of a settlement.
Conciliation – Conciliation, which is a similar concept to mediation, is a way in which a view is suggested to the parties in order to obtain a fair settlement.
Mini-trial – This is the case in which senior executives intend are presented different panels by different parties, involving a neutral chairman with the aim of narrowing the argument and negotiating a settlement.
Non-binding Expert Finding – The technical and non-binding issues of a dispute is appraised by different parties by an expert. This non-binding ADR have various outcomes such as a creative ‘win/win’ settlement, it is fast, less expensive, relationships are better preserved and more trustworthy, at the same time arbitration and litigation are available during the process.
121.6 Binding ADR
Expert Determination – Asking for an advice from an expert regarding the dispute is accepted by the parties so that the issue can be finalized and binding on contract, similar to arbitration.
1.7 Scope of Study
The long haul and capital escalated nature of speculations describing the abuse of non-renewable regular assets (oil, gas and minerals) influences the adjust of arranging force of the contracting parties after some time. Changes in conditions, including vacillations of expenses and costs together with financial and administrative dangers, have suggestions for the nonstop suitability of the venture all through its cycle.
In the present situation of declining ware costs, there is a solid request crosswise over governments and speculators to see how to structure contracts and configuration arrangements
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that save the monetary balance of the agreement and that can work for every one of the gatherings all through the venture life-cycle.
This review will basically concentrate on the idea of "Oil and Gas Contract" and the diverse essential rights emerging out of it, Specifically, Contract. As the Study manages a few issues identified with Oil and Gas Contract in Kurdistan , the Scope of the review is restricted to Kurdistan and International and different countries just and its relative examination with different laws on these concerned Arbitration. The impact of jurisdictional forces of the Courts and their choices are broke down with a specific end goal to concentrate the compelling execution of Contracts and assurance of rights emerging out of it of the partners.
1.8 Aims and Objective of Studies
1. To Study the Meaning and Concept of Contract 2. To Study the Laws relating to Contract
3. To Analyzing the International Authorities relating to Contract 4. To Study the Meaning and Concept of ADR
5. To Analysis the various mechanism relating to ADR 6. To study the Meaning and Arbitration
7. To analysis the International Arbitration
8. To Study the Various laws relating to Arbitration 9. To study the procedure followed by the Arbitration 10. To Study the oil and gas contract
11. To analysis the various rules and laws on Oil and Gas on the International as well as national level
12. To Define the Oil and Gas management
13. To analysis ‘ how the method of Arbitration method is useful for the resolving the matter
relating to gas and oil contract.
14. To analysis the law and procedure for the comparing Kurdistan oil and gas law and contracts with some other countries which they has best type of contracts.
15. To the study the relation between the government and private entities relating to Oil and Gas Contract
16. To study the corruption and other illegal things in Oil and Gas Contract.
1.9 Hypothesis
1. The ADR system is Ineffective in nature for the Oil and Gas Management
2. The Kurdistan oil and gas law and contracts with some other countries which they has best type of contracts.
3. The Arbitration method is an method in which the dispute resolve by way mutual consent.
1.10 Research Methodology
The strategy for research to be utilized by the analyst is Purely Doctrinal Research Methodology.
As the analyst would allude to different UN controls, worldwide bargains and other important global reports identified with Contract as the essential wellspring of data. The optional information to be alluded would be the different articles from diaries, course readings.
Additionally as auxiliary source official sites worried of United Nations and of other Subsidiary organs of the UN and further online information of administrative organizations of States in gathering data about the Oil and Gas Contract have been alluded. to gather important information and reports and so on research subject with the end goal of satisfaction of present doctrinal research. The specialist has received after research models under this doctrinal review, they are:
• Evolution demonstrate – this model is utilized to concentrate the authentic
improvement of Contract particularly, Oil and Gas, globally and in India and
foundation of related bodies, for example, ADR
• Explanatory model – it is utilized to clarify the auxiliary constitution and courses of action different authorizing systems constituted under the pertinent laws managing Oil and Gas
• Evaluation display – this model is utilized to concentrate the critical pretended by the Indian Courts and semi legal bodies, made under the significant laws, through its distinctive decisions to accord assurance and viability to concerned Oil and Gas .
• Explicative model – it is utilized to concentrate the nature and reason for different arrangements gave under Oil and Gas Contract and the forces and elements of the specialists constituted under these laws. Likewise to concentrate the cures put forth accessible in defense of encroachment.
1.11 Scheme of Chpterization Chapter I – General Introduction
This chapter includes general introduction of the research, meaning and definition of what is Contract, Impact of contract, Significance of the Study, Scope of Study, Objectives of Study, Hypothesis, and Research Methodology.
Chapter II – Meaning and Concept of Oil and Gas Contract:
This chapter will include _ what is contract? What is an oil and gas contract? How to make it? ,
best types of oil and gas contracts, different sides of contract, who gets more benefits of the
contract ( government or companies ?, mistakes in the making contracts, corruption in oil and
gas contracting, some countries contracts ( best once ), Kurdistan oil and gas contracts and laws,
clauses for contract, examples of contracts.
Chapter III – Conceptual Analysis of Arbitration
This chapter will include Arbitration, what is arbitration ?, best place for oil and gas dispute resolution ( arbitration courts ), differences between arbitration and government courts for dispute resolution, what is required to do when made a contract for arbitration, cases for oil and gas dispute resolution.
Chapter IV –Comparative Analysis of Legal Regime Of Oil And Gas – Kurdistan, China And India
This chapter will include the various mechanism for the resolving the Oil and Gas Dispute in Kurdistan and their relation to the other countries. This chapter also deals with the various other local and national laws in relation to contract on Oil and Gas Industries.
Chapter V – Conclusion and Recommendation:
This chapter will include a brief conclusion and recommendation of the research.
CHAPTER TWO
MEANING AND CONCEPT OF OIL AND GAS CONTRACT 2.1 Introduction
There is doubt Lesley petroleum impacts on the economy of the county weather they have the Gas and Oil or a buyer. There are countries they have no sufficient fuel where they need natural resources there for they have to buy it from other countries, as an example India thereafter few nations prompted to an insurgency in the level of expectations for everyday comforts. In some oil delivering nations, petroleum turned into the essential wellspring of salary. For instance, the Arab Gulf nations were previously reliant on the fare of rural yields and the exchange marine pots wage as their profitable income, these countries were underdeveloped prior to discovering their natural resource, then it was a main source of income therefore it becomes a fast wellspring for their modernisation and more developed, most of oil creating nations attempt to secure this riches, which rules their economies. The disclosure of petroleum has not just affected the economy of the oil-delivering nations; it has additionally assumed an imperative part in reshaping the historical backdrop of these nations.
13Obviously, there must be an interest for a product with the end goal for it to be significant. Buyer nations look for approaches to pick up and to protect transportation, industrial facilities and their military forces. Natural resources deal widely among the nations, and the fare of petroleum have ascended subsequently of rivalry amongst clients and expense income of block gold has been component. nations are competing as for profit between each other who are a buyer of their oil. The nations who are a customer for natural resource are making efforts to restraining and overpower the oil. Rivalry likewise developed between oil delivering nations themselves war and promote the conflict among each other the best example can be listed is Iraqi government and
13Khaldoun Hassan Al-Nafeez, Society and State in the Gulf and Arab Lands: A Different view (Routledge 2012) 169.
Kuwait. Therefore the confrontation delivering nations as well as exists inside the oil creating nations, and has prompted to debate, for example, the question among the central government and the Kurdish government Question and secure this essential material to maintain their industrial facilities, transportation and military power.
The interest for petroleum from these nations has significantly expanded. Oil costs have ascended subsequently of rivalry amongst clients, and expense income from oil has additionally been a component.
14Question dispute is a huge part of any legally binding relationship, especially in universal petroleum assertions.
15This is on account of, from one perspective, a lot of capital is put by the universal petroleum organization in such an understanding and, then again, the subject of the petroleum assentation speaks to the normal assets of the host country and rules its economy. A lot is on the line for both parties. It is a circumstance in which neither one of the party’s needs to hazard losing, and in this way picking an appropriate technique for settling question emerging from such assertions is viewed as crucial in deciding any understanding between the gatherings.
16There is distinctive method for settling the question: the gatherings can consent to response to intercession, arrangement, suit or mediation. Discretion is a well-known method for settling question in business matters. It has turned into the essential and best framework for settling business question. In any case, the states of mind to assertion are diverse as to petroleum debate. While worldwide petroleum organizations incline toward this choice, oil delivering nations, among them Iraq, take a suspicious perspective of discretion as a method for settling question.
17Some oil delivering states trust that presenting a petroleum question to mediation is an infringement of power. What's more, the dissimilarity between the financial limits of the authoritative gatherings, which is reflected in the petroleum understanding
14 Bahrkay Jafar, Iraq and Policy of United State and United Nations’ Diplomacy (2009).Hashmi publish.
Baghdad,p.129.
15 The war between Iraq and Iran (1980-1988); the first Gulf War 1991: the second Gulf war 2003.
16Khana Rasul, ‘The legend of International Contract Law’ (1991) 17 Journal of Trade Law 139.
17Ibid 19.
terms, obliges the creating nations to take an extreme position with a specific end goal to shield their interests from the staggering monetary force of these organizations. Mediation focuses specifically don't have any significant bearing the national laws of the host states and these assertion chambers have a tendency to settle in the petroleum organizations' advantage. In light of these conditions, many host states have proclaimed that the national court has select expert to settle question emerging from petroleum contracts.
Iraq has one of the world's biggest stores of petroleum. Its cutting edge history has been formed by petroleum. In the most recent three decades, Iraq has persevered through three progressive wars, and additionally the financial assents forced by the Security Council (hereinafter the SC), which proceeded for over 13 years.
These approvals did not permit Iraq to make any business exchanges or remote speculations,
aside from trading a restricted measure of petroleum. Whatsoever is gained out of the Iraqi
petroleum is subject to supervision of united nations .The income returned to the Iraqi
Government for its needs and its development where it require, hence it has effected economy of
Iraq specially on its oil marketing feild, in 2003 onward the central Government has tried its best
to take over its economy and eradicate all defects within the country by bringing financial
specialists and organizations to put resources into Iraq, particularly in the petroleum area which
is the primary source of the economy of country. It was thought to make an Iraqi Government
among the world's richest petroleum nations. The creator regards discretion strategy for settling
question as a key instrument for pulling in remote financial specialists, particularly in an intricate
circumstance, for example, the one confronted by Iraq. It ought to be viewed as a standout
amongst the most vital ensures given by host states with a specific end goal to pull in outside
financial specialists, especially in post-struggle states in which speculators will be aware of the kind of gathering that will embrace to determine petroleum debate.
182.2 What is meant by a contract?
An agreement, or understanding, between gatherings makes a common arrangement of commitments to do or not to do certain things, which the gatherings are bound, at law, to complete. To be legitimate an agreement must comprise of specific components, for example, an offer an acknowledgment and in a few purviews, thought. At the end of the day, an agreement is a lawfully official assention between at least two people. For instance, in the event that you buy any merchandise; on the off chance that you purchase a house; on the off chance that you connect with a developer to do chip away at your home; on the off chance that you obtain cash;
on the off chance that you arrange products or apparatus from a producer, these are a wide range of agreements. The law of agreements is fundamental to the law, which influences purchasers. It is an unpredictable zone and is administered both by the "general law" – that is, laws which have advanced from choices made throughout the years by Judges in connection to contract question and also, "enactment" or "statutory law" – laws presented by government.
19An agreement includes certain essential components. They are:
• Agreement (emerging from an offer and an acknowledgment);
• Consideration – a trade of some advantage or something of significant worth by the gatherings, for instance a gathering pays a total of cash for products provided by another gathering, or cash is paid for work did by the other party.
18Bahrkay, supra note 14,p.136.
19Faily Karokh, Contracts and Kinds, 2000.Abdo media publishes. Oman. P.76.
• An expectation to go into lawful relations – that is, the gatherings proposed to go into a legitimately official assentation (in spite of the fact that this is frequently not particularly expressed, it is generally inferred).
2.3 What is an oil and gas contract?
Petroleum contracts including the host state together with petroleum organizations as parties are a basic legitimate instrument overseeing the investigation and misuse of petroleum riches. In spite of the significance of petroleum in universal governmental issues and financial aspects, petroleum contracts marked proceeding a complete ignorance of WW-II regarding the relations among premiums makers and conjecture organizations22 that was because of an absence of capital and specialized ability with respect to the delivering nations and the more noteworthy level of financial and political control practiced by the multinational organizations. These variables permitted petroleum organizations to acquire an agreement to have all the detail of the deal with each other. The scenario was the extreme effect to the oil marketing with oil receivers, that was denial and to benefit out of gain of the natural resources of the Iraqi petroleum for their basic development. The World War-II changed the basis of contracts, because of developing remote interest in petroleum nations and challengers before having control over organizations. New sorts of concession sho[wed up, bearing names, for example, benefit contract, generation sharing contract and interest assention.
202.4 Traditional Concession Contracts
Concession assentions initially developed toward the region only after twentieth century among the Middle East countries.
21The petroleum companies come in to Middle East during Anglo- Persian Oil Company, on 28/8/1901 Government of Iranian with William Knox D'Arcy an English man confess the detail discussion with regarding of petroleum abuse in Persian Gulff or
20Al-Kawshani, supra note 1,p.201.
21Al-Kawshani, supra note 1,p.351.
the first time in six decade. Consequently sixteen for each penny of the organization's benefits were to be paid to the Iranian government. This was the best known concession of the time. At that point in 1933, Saudi Arabia gave an admission to the Standard Oil Company of California got more and stronger range than what D'Arcy from Iranian Government petroleum market of middle east was under the control of few companies before the world war second and was specifically the Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobile,Exxon, Gulf, British Petroleum, Standard Oil of California ,Royal-Dutch, and Texaco.
22In the conventional sessions it mentioned in the agreement in two different gathering one was state host and the other was companies with regard to petroleum , thereafter the host state empower the petroleum companies for more precaution , investigate ,and extraction within the land of host state
for a broadened timeframe. It is finished up straightforwardly including the host state together with petroleum organizations as parties looking to get the grant, a decade later the grant framed three structures
23. 28 The concession was cooperated among host state which produces oil and the company from abroad. Once the petroleum is discovered in large amounts to be commercially marketed, a state that produces it could form a company after finding the concessionaire. The capital cities of the companies also aid the host states in achieving this. The concession is made among the host state and two parties, which are composed of the national company and the concessionaire. Two parties make a concession, by signing it between a company that belongs to the state and the concessionaire.
242.5 The Modern Concession Agreement
The grant understanding comes into picture after second world that was included various political and monetary occasions and conditions that added to the advancement of this sort of
22Assad Anosh, System of the Petroleum Agreement in Arabic Countries (Iskandariyah University 1970) p.321.
23Otighearney,supra note 6, p.342.
24Anosh, supra note 22.p.333.
agreement as far as differing qualities of frame and substance. Creation share in the agreement was included and to confirm clarity for administration assention. Additional time, the delivering nations get to be distinctly mindful of the significance of natural resources within and outside the country at large to benefit the economy and improves the cost of petroleum, for instance training ,transport, and industry to increase output though both the ways to regain their wealth to start with by nationalization of the petroleum business secondly by compromising of the contract with foreign companies.
25For some of reasons Gas and oils companies was under pressure to admit and re generate for a visible cost increase in petroleum product. Various new companies comes up with new and much better opportunities and better advantages put in front of the natural resources nations, at the result its caused for the establish of OPEC .Which had an impact in obliging petroleum organizations to renegotiate concession terms. OPEC induced another sort of relationship between delivering nations and petroleum organizations that fortified the creating nations' dealing position. It likewise assumed a vital part in setting petroleum costs and encouraged the trading of data between OPEC individuals, who could finish up assertions that offered more ideal terms to the host states.
26Their illustration urged other delivering states to scrutinize the terms of their own concession understandings.
A pattern towards nationalization was another explanation behind petroleum organizations to be troubled about their concessions. Iran, for instance, nationalized its petroleum industry in 1951.
An essential part was additionally played by a United Nations determination 1803 that perceived the privilege of each state to have sway over its own regular assets. These resolutions were received by different distinctive states and incorporated into their constitutions. Such were the general conditions adding to the presence of new sorts of petroleum understanding. With respect
25Andirson, AReMCO, The United States and Saudi : An view of the Dynamic of Oil Foreign Policy 1933-1950 (Princetun University 1982)
26N. C. Vassily, The Alphabet of the Petroleum Industry (Guiden Serieos) (Scarecrou Pres, Inc 2008.p.284
to Iraq, there were extra calculates included its choice to receive this cutting edge type of concession assention. In view of the nationalization of Iran's petroleum industry in 1951, production in that nation diminished. Therefore, the petroleum organizations looked to extend their exercises to Iraq and Kuwait to build the generation of petroleum and furthermore to upset the program of nationalization in Iran. There was likewise an expanded worldwide interest for petroleum after World War II because of development and reproduction in many states, and there was additionally an extension of military enterprises. Present day concessions have qualities not the same as those of customary concession. As a matter of first importance, the budgetary advantages in present day concessions are shifted, and incorporate sovereignties, expenses, lease and rewards.
Royalty: Production determines the royalty payment, in which the companies of petroleum adopt all the obligation, without depending on the profit. A certain sum of money is kept separately than the profit, which is paid to the host state for its each stage of production. This amount does not include the fees and leases because this amount is paid after a certain amount of petroleum is produced to be used for commercial purposes. 1974 has been the year when 20% of royalty interests were improved by the member countries of OPEC. Certain countries, including the United Kingdom, Norway, and Denmark, did not accept the royalty as a regime. According to the Article 34 of the DLOG, it was decided that the gross production should have been the basis for the royalty percentage and it was decided to be 12%. The situation in Iraq was slightly different, which was determined based on oil and Gas No. 22 of 2007 from law of Kurdistan through a density criterion. On the basis of the article 37/E, the royalty was determined to be between 7.5%-10% in terms of heavy crude oil, based on the heaviness, varying between light and medium.
2727Nicholas M., ‘Concession Contracts Policy’s (Chawi Shin 2007) Cihan Law. p.510.
Tax: In the 1950s, the agreements started to include the taxation concept of concession, which had a meaning of profit, is among the concessionaire and host nations. The amount of the concession depended on the amount of the revenue and the profit. This was the notion determining whether it was tax or royalty. The companies selling petroleum were not paying tax to the host states, but after the Second World War, they started to pay due to the increase in the crude oil prices and increase in the profits of the companies.
28However, the income for the host state decreased. This is the reason why the host state started to fight against the oil companies and implement new legislations in terms of making them pay higher amounts of tax based on the revenue of the companies. In that way, the countries were earning trough the payments of the oil companies, which led to an economic improvement in the petroleum producing countries based on various contracts they made on oil. In the end, the host states began to take part in the decisions made on oil, which rendered them efficient and influential.
Bonus: The oil producing companies usually pay the concept of bonus to the host state. It can be divided into three, which are the ones right after signing the contract, the ones in the beginning of the production phase and the ones as a part of exploring.
Rent: Oil companies pay a rent to the host state based on their profit, so it can be called the money taken based on the owning of the land by the host state. Accordingly, the producing companies pay this amount in order to use that land, whose size and location are used in determining the amount.
29In addition, recent contracts contain a limited concession compared to the previous ones and they also intend to include all the areas in the field so that different companies do not compete against them.
28Nicholas M, supra note 27,p.29.
29Sliva Bewar, Exploration and Production of Petroleum and Rights: Allocation plan.2013.Barcelona.p.41.
2.6 The Production Sharing Agreement (PSA)
This agreement so called (PSA) work with support of imperative rules where petroleum is under supervision of host nations with full privileges to send natural resources. The rule is of no change over the characteristic assets.
30As per this understanding host nations provided with certain power to investigate and condemn oil and gas for a specific range to constrained length.
Consequently the organization recovers the costs acquired amid its investigation exercises and mutual agree on the price of petroleum according to the contract. The assenting with support of thinking of danger , the organization can investigate their operation space which is just equivalent desire of revelation, or in the places where the amount doesn’t comply to business ratifications. The nation should endure the cost review along other unearth which is fundamental with a specific end goal to achieve the petroleum supplies. The petroleum organization attempts that in leading investigation exercises and with paying amount to organization won't take place from hot nation unless petroleum disclosure. The organization identifies oil in business amounts;
it will set up another authoritative relationship amongst itself and the host nation. This agreement appears as a PSA. In any case, where the organization is unable to reach a sufficient and adequate quantity and host state is under no obligation to pay to the organization for any of the charges
31.
Beforehand, Saddam marked these agreements with the point of drawing in speculation from outside oil organizations, and utilized these organizations to as a method for pressurizing the worldwide group to lift authorizes on Iraq.
The KRG finished up a generation imparting consent to Nirwegian firm in the year of 2006 that was marked as a second creation sharing agreement after Gulf war and confined twake field.
Hence, the KRG marked arranged and marked contracts with an assortment of petroleum
30Ibid 52.
31Vassily, supra note 26, at 287.
enterprises of different nationality some are known as: Canadian organizations, Western Sands, Reliance Oil from India, Heritage Oil, a British organization, Dana Gas from the UAE.
Irrespective to government in Baghdad and lawful contract was made, hence Kurdistan region has revoked formally and consented seven arrangements with various petroleum organizations.
32The KRG contended that the understandings marked with the universal petroleum organizations were substantial as per the constitution of Iraq 2005 there articles 110,114 and 115 that distinguish choice and shared forces of the Iraqi financial government and the Kurdistan region yet did not advert expressly to one side to furthest point of oil and gas generation to government of Iraq. There are well known associations influenced Iraqis environment and introduced creation share as the best type of contract to drawing in outside venture organizations, in perspective of the precarious security circumstance. In the present creator viewed to Iraq not to use this kind of agreement to start up petroleum firms with Iraqi resources. This kind of agreements are illegitimate when nation have no complete knowledge of its resources of petroleum, so far Iraqis situation is not stable as such even though Iraq is the among third biggest store in the world, in fact Iraq is perfect to have creating state and there is a capacity of having resource stores. The petroleum costs a single dollar single dollar per barrel in Iraq even though the circumstance is shaky because of the measure of savagery and annihilation in the nation. The Iraqi government shall make atmosphere to petroleum organizations with protection
and it is possible that to be provided with a special protection or the organization themselves have own security for their operations, over charges of petroleum can be cute off by the Iraqi Government so that the Iraq will have its creation share and continue with its buyers.
3332Karwan Kamaran, Kurdish Oil, Roxana Press published,2011.Erbil,p,38.
33Kamaran, supra note 32, at 46.
2.7 Service Agreements
As per this type of understanding the host nation concedes the petroleum organization rights to mining and investigation in return for instalment, already concurred between the gatherings of the assention. Subsequently the worldwide petroleum organization with their employee's management from petroleum organization and petroleum trading nation. To end expenses weather by companies or host states to be compelled and followed as agreed in the mutual agreement with the lowest cost, the relation among remote organization and all ground sources of petroleum is not legitimate, the assets becomes the property of the national oil companies, as a result it has raised tensions among host nations and outside organizations in with regard to business, it has also known as petroleum asset of sovereignties that too caused a tensions among petroleum creations and organization.
The basic and clear view was occurred in Middle East in the year of 1966 in Iran, which was the date when the National Oil Company of Iran marked an administration contract with the French organization ERAP. A few creators see this as the principal benefit assention on the planet; in the year of 1974 Iran managed and administered its seven agreements.
The basis administration agreement in arab nation was furnished among INOC and ERAP on 3/2/1968 in Iraq and also two more agreement was sign by Iraqi Government first was with Petro bras oil company of brazil and secondly with India oil and natural gas company.
34With any consideration to 1973 declaration Iraq got no share in the universal petroleum organization. This type of arrangement made Iraq not to have universal oil organization and to loss hope towards the world press in 1973 declaration, with all remarkable irritations made forward with all possibilities to put it to an end and to deprive Iraq from universal oil organizations and the global organizations coming about because of nationalization was presented by the European Companies Group after the marking of the 1973 tradition, yet was dismisses by the Iraqi
34Nishakant Adav, Oil company in India, Jaipur books, Pune,2000.p.56.
government. Be that as it may, Iraq contracted for a moment time in 2008 concerning some petroleum fields. There are three sorts of administration get: the unadulterated administration assention, the hazard benefit understanding, and the specialized help contract. The immaculate administration understanding is regular in the United States.
35It doesn't offer rights to generation, that doesn’t attract foreign organization , with an oil firms the positive management takes all the expenses and also it becomes an important step towards the development and also it causes attraction of oil organization inside the state. Most of the nations tried to have unrefined oil as their charge which was called buyback mutual agreement and it's been used by few organization in Iran. The danger profit of this contract is not easily reaching the Latin America, along with this foreign organization they mostly gives and important to the area , In the event that it discovers petroleum in business sums, the firm embraces to create it and consequently has a privilege to lien, which would either be as trade or out kind, by taking unrefined petroleum at a lessened cost. Assuming, be that as it may, the organization neglects to discover petroleum, it would in any case bear every one of the expenses and furthermore would have no investigation rights.
The third kind of administration contract is a specialized help contract. It is regular in Arab Gulf nations and is viewed as more progressed than different sorts of administration assention. As indicated by this agreement, the petroleum organization supplies the host state with specialized help with all investigation operations, and some of the time in refining petroleum. The petroleum organization's administrations may incorporate providing hardware and preparing staff.
Consequently, the host nation is obliged to pay the organization's expenses. The administration contract is in some routes like the creation sharing assention. The organization's petroleum investigation is constrained both in zone and in term. The contractual worker attempts to hold up under the entire cost and to convey every one of the dangers emerging from investigation
35Ibid 438.
operations, and furthermore consents to apply a surrender term. The contractual worker frequently embraces to finance the advancement and investigation operations in the wake of discovering petroleum in business amounts.
36In any case, benefit contracts contrast from different sorts of oil understandings. In this sort of agreement, the oil delivered has a place with the host state, which has a privilege to discard the oil and is resolved to pay every one of the costs accumulated by the temporary worker. The host nation either pays in real money, or in kind, as a share of the oil delivered, and either without the instalment of premium, or with premium paid ahead of time. The temporary worker's commitment to the administration of investigation operations in the wake of the disclosure of petroleum is set up in the understanding. The host nation has an extensive part of the duty regarding administration, more so than the temporary worker be that as it may, preceding the disclosure, the administration of operations is shared between the state and the contractual worker
37.
2.8 The Participation Agreement
It is the agreement on which the host state and the producing company are in partnership, thus they share the work in searching the oil. However, foreign partners constitute risks for them. This means that it would not be possible to find out the economic loss in terms of oil in case the foreign partner pays the entire whole for the search. In the case whether the oil is discovered, it will turn into a contract of development. This agreement can be considered as a joint venture with the host state or oil producing company. The host country has an important part, particularly in preserving the sovereignty. A partnership forms between the host state and the foreign
36Adav, supra note 34, at 77.
37Akram Al-Hayawi, The community of Arab Petroleum release states: rules of the Oil and Gas manufactuer(2001, Nasriyah) p.26.
