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....

Introduction (Valery Salygin) -- Part 1. Governing Energy Projects in the Russian Artic -- Chapter 1. International Legal Framework of Arctic Exploration (Igor Shulyatyev) -- Chapter 2. Russia’s Chairmanship in the Arctic Сouncil: In Search of Balance? (Dmitryi Yakovenko) -- Part 2. Energy...

pt. 1. Turning oil and gas wealth into sustainable and equitable development -- pt. 2. Entrenching transparency and stakeholder engagement -- pt. 3. Effective management of the oil and gas sector -- pt. 4. Safeguarding security and the environment -- pt. 5. Country-specific models and lessons...

chapter 1 Oil and gas in Africa -- chapter 2 Nigerian oil and gas industry -- chapter 3 Petroleum geology of Nigeria -- chapter 4 Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) -- chapter 5 Upstream sector -- chapter 6 Marginal field development -- chapter 7 Oil field service companies --...