Introduction

This paper attempts a legal-empirical analysis of production sharing contracts in the Indonesian petroleum industry. In common with numerous other outsiders who have explored the labyrinths of the petroleum industry, the present author disclaims the expertise necessary for a genuinly complete survey of even this limited portion of the industry. A wide variety of people were interviewed because the industry is so vast that very few individuals even those in its daily employ, have either the time, inclination or opportunity to learn intimately all its parts. To this end, in excess of 400 ...