"This book focuses on the history, key industry and policy actors, and political economic outcomes in oil-producing African states, filling a gap in the literature on resource-abundant countries by providing an optimistic assessment of circumstances in contemporary Africa. John R. Heilbrunn's...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Turning Oil and Gas Wealth into Sustainable and Equitable Development -- 2 Managing the Extractive Resource -- 3 Revenue Management in the Oil...

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 --...

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The challenges facing developing countries with new-found natural resource wealth are generally understood in terms of whether they have the institutions of ‘good governance' required to avoid the resource curse. New insights from a political settlements perspective show how deeper forms of...