About OGEL (ISSN 1875-418X)

Oil, Gas, Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL, ISSN 1875-418X) started publishing in January 2003 and has since gained popularity with a large number of (international) energy companies, governmental organisations, law firms (mainly those with a claim to special competence in international oil, gas and energy regulation), international agencies, academic and think-tank institutions in the field of energy policy and various NGOs. To get an idea of our current readership you can find some of them here.

You can use the menu on the left to learn more about our contributing authors, published issues, special features or browse through our OGEL Legal & Regulatory material.

If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us.

Why OGEL - an Oil, Gas, Energy Law Intelligence Service?

Oil-gas-energy law (OGEL) has over the last two decades transcended national borders. With privatisation, restructuring, the emergence of competitive markets, cross-border energy trade and regional integration, legal instruments from one jurisdiction (countries; international organisations; professional and industry associations; civil society forums, internal corporate codes) have a bearing on others - they provide a model, a legal precedent, a directive, standard or guideline for further regulatory implementation.

Providing a global overview

There are challenges from human rights, the environment, extraterritorial application; agreements with or between regulatory agencies, international 'technical' standards of an increasing 'legal' relevance, a combination of regulatory economics with the design and application of legal instruments. In 2003 OGEL was launched in order to offer a global overview, and to provide more detailed identification and analysis of specific instruments that have a wide relevance.

Other information sources

Information on such developments is currently available from a number of sources: academic / professional journals (such as the OUP / AIPN Journal of World Energy Law and Businesss, the International Bar Association's Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law or the International Energy Law and Taxation Review); high-quality newspapers (such as, in particular, the Financial Times or the Wallstreet Journal); legal information services (eg Lexis-Nexis), occasional and sometimes excellent newsletters produced by international law firms; the petroleum trade journals (Oil & Gas Journal; Petroleum Review; Petroleum Economist and others) or region-focused services (Russian Petroleum Investor; MEES etc).

If one follows the internet and subscribes to special regional services, one can also keep abreast of developments. Official reports - by the IEA, the EU, the OECD, the World Bank, the UN, APEC, OLADE and other international agencies - are a useful source, but they are often too long and detailed, and not easily available in a 'digest' format.

Adding value

OGEL desires to add significant value to all of these sources. It uses the full potential of the internet and web-based data management to provide both a concise overview, but also access to an extensive, and rapidly growing, database of 'primary legal/regulatory' materials. It includes short notes and Summaries - but with access to more comprehensive, in-depth studies and relevant primary material. The emphasis is not on a compilation of 'clippings' from newspapers, trade journals and the internet - as valuable as these are as a rapid item of information, but rather on 'intelligence', ie comment on the true significance, the essential elements and the wider implications of current developments written by oil-gas-energy lawyers and regulation specialists with an in-depth understanding of what a new development means - rather than just the reproduction of a press release.

OGEL will also include a selection of what we think are the most relevant recent publications (articles, notes, case reports, official international agency reports).

OGEL is linked closely to the internet forums established and moderated by Thomas Wälde, in particular the 2008-established OGELForum, OGEMID (TDM) and ENATRES (CEPMLP).

Open to all to read and to contribute

Since the start of its publication OGEL has become the hub of a global professional and academic network. We therefore invite all those with an oil-gas-energy law and regulation interest to contribute. We are looking mainly for short comments on recent developments of broad interest. We would like where possible such comments to be backed-up by provision of in-depth notes and articles (which we will publish in our OGEL Journal) and primary legal and regulatory materials in the OGEL Legal & Regulatory database.

Contribute

If you would like to contribute to our OGEL Journal you can find more information here.

ISSN 1875-418X

The Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence ISSN number: 1875-418X

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