Assessment of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico-U.S. Virgin Islands Exclusive Economic Zone, 2013

The decision of the Nigerian Supreme Court in the case of the Attorney General of the Federation v. the Attorney General of Abia State & 35 Ors. was delivered on 5 April, 2002 in respect of the proviso to section 162(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which incorporates what is popularly known in Nigeria as the “derivation formula”. It brought to the forefront the need to determine (especially as regards revenue derived from the oil and gas resources) whether the offshore bed of the territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Nigeria should be regarded as part of the littoral states of the federation or not? This article critically examines the decision of the Supreme Court as it relates to the “ownership” of the offshore seabed as between the federal Government and the littoral states in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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International Legal Security of Offshore Oil and Gas Installations within the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf

Actual Problems of Russian Law ◽

10.17803/1994-1471.2019.109.12.134-144 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (12) ◽

pp. 134-144

Author(s):

N. S. Abramov

Keyword(s):

Continental Shelf ◽

International Law ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Optimal Solution ◽

Exclusive Economic Zone ◽

The Arctic ◽

Economic Zone ◽

Legal Security ◽

Offshore Oil And Gas ◽

Offshore Oil

The purpose of the paper is to assess the effectiveness of international legal means of preventing modern threats aimed at offshore oil and gas installations, and to find the optimal solution to eliminate the identified shortcomings. The stated goal determines two key tasks — an analysis of the applicable norms of international law and an analysis of the practice of their implementation. The first part of the paper discusses the development of the concept of security zones as the main international legal means ensuring the protection of installations within the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf. The second part examines the practice of states in enforcing laws and regulations aimed at organizing the safety of facilities in the context of the conclusions reached by international judicial authorities in the case of the Arctic Sunrise vessel. Based on the results of the study, the author concludes that there is some insufficiency and inefficiency of security zones to prevent modern threats. As a solution to this problem, the author proposes to establish “warning zones”, i.e. an additional international legal means to ensure the safety of offshore oil and gas installations.

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Environmental Assessment for Exclusive Economic Zone Mineral Development Activities; the Lessons Learned from Offshore Oil and Gas Development

Ocean Resources ◽

10.1007/978-94-009-2131-3_26 ◽

1990 ◽

pp. 321-330

Author(s):

Jeffrey P. Zippin

Keyword(s):

Environmental Assessment ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Exclusive Economic Zone ◽

Oil And Gas Development ◽

Mineral Development ◽

Economic Zone ◽

Offshore Oil And Gas ◽

Offshore Oil

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ZONA EKONOMI EKSLUSIF (ZEE) DALAM POROS MARITIM DAN TOL LAUT

JURNAL SAINS DAN TEKNOLOGI MARITIM ◽

10.33556/jstm.v0i1.183 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Joko Dwi Sugihartono

Keyword(s):

Deep Sea ◽

Exclusive Economic Zone ◽

National Unity ◽

Logistics Cost ◽

The Earth ◽

Sea Bed ◽

Sea Transportation ◽

Economic Zone ◽

The Law ◽

Lack Of Knowledge

in Indonesia is a region bordering the sea region of Indonesia determined by the law which included sea bed, land under it and water above it with the limit of 200miles. This is measured from Indonesian line of the sea.This whole time a lot of people see the shoreline as the sea border. This perspective makes us alienated and lack of knowledge to take advantage of the sea. This understanding also conjures the idea sea toll, to confirm that Indonesia is maritime country. Sea toll means building sea transportation with ships or sea logistic system which will serve nonstop back and forth from Sabang to Merauke. One of the factors to support this is by building ports (deep sea port) order to give faraway to big ships. A course that spreading as far as 5,000 kilometers or an eighth circumference of the earth One of the purposes of sea toll is to move the economy as efficient and evenly as possible. With the hope that, there will be ships back and forth on Indonesian water, so logistics cost will be cheap. That is why; sea toll is one of President Joko Widodo’s priorities which are also meant to develop Indonesia as maritime country and develop Indonesia as national unity. In addition sea toll can also be affirmation, that Indonesia is in every regions even if it is through ships.Keywords : Exclusive Economic Zone (ZEE) , Sea Toll , The Shaft Maritime, A Seaport

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