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Welcome to the 2025 edition of ICLG - Oil & Gas Regulation. Ashurst LLP is delighted
to serve as the Guide's Contributing Editors and authors of two chapters.
As we near the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, we can reflect on how the
oil and gas industry has changed in nearly two and a half decades. In some ways, the
factors influencing the oil and gas industry have not changed that significantly: for
example, it is telling that while the International Energy Agency's recently updated
"Shared Goals" give prominence to energy security and the energy transition, the
earlier 1993 version of these Shared Goals also referenced energy security, diversification
and environment sustainability. These themes are not new. But perhaps the
biggest shift is in terms of how the oil and gas industry perceives itself and its role.
This shift is epitomised by the fact that many oil and gas companies now consider
themselves to be "energy companies", reflecting the focus on the energy transition
and also the role that oil and gas, often in association with decarbonisation technologies
(such as CCS), plays in the wider energy industry.
The management and regulation of oil and gas is a complex area (perhaps more so
now than ever before), balancing such diverse and sometimes conflicting issues as
generating national wealth, energy security, environmental protection and, increasingly
in recent years, the need to address climate change. It is a vastly important,
fascinating and ever-changing area. It is also very much an international area, with
governments, regulators, oil and gas companies and their advisors alike looking
beyond the confines of national boundaries to consider the oil and gas regulation
landscape across different jurisdictions.
As well as considering oil and gas regulation, we also continue to track developments
in the key decarbonisation technologies relevant to the oil and gas sector, such as clean
hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, in the jurisdictions covered by this Guide.
This Guide follows a practical Q&A format, which allows for easy navigation of
the many different facets of oil and gas regulation, and facilitates comparing and
contrasting specific areas in different jurisdictions.
Contents
Hydrogen - Disputes on the Horizon? Tom Cummins & Matthew Harnett, Ashurst LLP Argentina Bernardo Bertelloni, Martelli Abogados Bolivia Pablo Ordoñez & Carola Soruco, PPO Abogados Brazil Julia Barker & Mariana Saragoça, Stocche Forbes Advogados Canada Evan Herbert & Max Ettinger, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Chile Juan Carlos Valdivieso, Rodrigo Delaveau, Constanza Araya & Fernando Villanueva, Morales & Besa Croatia
Josip Marohnić, Marin Curić & Jan Petričević, Marohnić, Tomek & Gjoić France Emma George, Sarah Assayag & Thomas Vacher, Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I Ghana Lucie Ekeleba Blay & Davidina Nana Aba Dadson, Blay & Associates Greece Yannis Seiradakis & Eleni Stazilova, Bernitsas Law India Anuja Tiwari, Mallika Anand, Aditya Pandey & Shikhar Thukral, AZB & Partners Iran Anahita Asgari Fard & Behnam Molavi, Asgari Law Firm Japan Adrian Joyce, Hiroyasu Konno, Alexander Woody & Scott S. K. Alper, Nishimura & Asahi (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo) Lebanon Jean Baroudi & Nadine Allam, Baroudi & Associates Nigeria Ayuli Jemide, Anthony Ezeamama, Ayobami Kolawole & Moyogbemi Nesiama, DETAIL COMMERCIAL SOLICITORS Norway Bjørn-Erik Leerberg & Gunnar Espeland, Advokatfirmaet Simonsen Vogt Wiig AS Oman Charles Dolphin, Sarah Al Hinai & John Geddes, CMS South Africa Nkonzo Hlatshwayo, Phuti Mashalane & Dale Adams, Werksmans Attorneys Togo Edouard-Robert Aquereburu & Moamar Tidjani, AQUEREBURU & Partners United Kingdom Julia Derrick & Justyna Bremen, Ashurst LLP USA John P. Cogan, Jr., Cogan & Partners LLP Venezuela Miguel Rivero, Carlos García & José Alberto Ramírez, LEĜA
