Shale: A Guide to Tailoring Legislation, SPAs, Farm-in Agreements and JOAs in Developing Basins
Article from: OGEL 3 (2014), in Unconventional Oil and Gas
Summary
The United Kingdom (UK) Government, with broadly cross-party political support, was quick to seize the initiative in promoting the development of unconventional gas developments. Such initiative was quickly followed by a number of high profile (albeit limited scale) investments in early stage shale developments in the UK, perhaps most notably by the French major, Total. Other developing unconventional gas regimes will, therefore, be interested to learn what, if anything, governments can do to attract a limited pool of international petroleum investors to their fledgling ...