This book focuses on the main legal issues within the oil and gas industry today in Uganda and beyond. It helps one to understand and the skills to deal with a wide range of oil and gas legal issues. Helps to Develop a sound knowledge of the main legal, regulatory and contractual issues pertinent in the oil and Gas industry in the Uganda, Regional and international level both upstream and downstream operations; it gives an understanding of the operation of some key legal principles in the context of non-contractual issues in the oil and Gas industry; and legal jurisprudence in Oil and Gas law in Uganda. The book recognizes the lack of rigorous academic publications in the oil and gas law field in Uganda. It further recognizes that the terms oil and gas have been occasionally intertwined by most writers all over the globe but the writer is awake to the underlying distinctions between them which would warrant that a deeper, more specific legal body be arraigned to capture the natural gas sector per se. by this book, Uganda is honored to be availed a number of legal and institutional reforms to guide its oil and gas utilization at this infancy stage.
The book to gives a broad and clear insight into relevant legal, political and economic issues related to oil and gas law at national, regional levels; it Critically appraises and discusses the legal structure and regulatory matrix of the oil and gas sector in Uganda it also Critically appraises contractual frameworks, environmental concerns, dispute resolution mechanisms as used in the oil and gas industry. The book uses legal reasoning, analysis and research by critically analyzing the broad principles and practical implementation of oil and gas law and policy in Uganda and various regions of the world. The intention is to Exhibit full understanding of legal issues covering finite resources and incorporate them into the decision-making process.