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Law and Policy in Petroleum Development

Law and Policy in Petroleum Development

By Kamal Hossain

Nichols, 1979, 284 pp.

To find and produce oil, developing countries usually need the help of foreign companies. To suggest what legal and organizational arrangements will both encourage exploration and give the government the largest possible return is the purpose of this study by a former Cabinet Minister of Bangladesh who is now at Oxford. His work, supported by the Commonwealth Secretariat, draws on the experience of ten quite diverse countries.