Requirement and Present Situation of the Oil and Gas Resources in China -- Main Fields of Oil and Gas Exploration and Problems -- Prediction of Development Objectives in Scientific Field on Oil and Gas Resource in the Future -- Primary Scientific Research Orientations in Terms of Oil and Gas...

A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious to obtain the greatest benefits for their economies from the extraction of these exhaustible resources by designing appropriate policies to achieve desired goals....

1. Introduction: Ghana’s Petroleum Industry in Transition -- 2. Examining Ghana’s New Exploration and Production Act and Other Legislative Developments -- 3. The Ghana-Cote-d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute and Transboundary Resource Management in the Gulf of Guinea -- 4. Upstream Petroleum...

Introduction and Overview -- Part 1: A history of mistrust and struggle: -- Oil and geopolitics in the 1970s and 1980s -- OPEC and the Roaring 1990s -- The 2000s: The Boom and Bust Cycles -- Part 2: OPEC and the New Reality -- A false dawn: Myths and Realities of OPEC’s power -- Technology and...