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Articles:

The Political Settlement and Decision making in Ghana's Energy Sector

Direct Challenges Against EU Acts and Standing Requirements for Private Persons - Order of the General Court on 20 May 2020 in Case T 526/19, Nord Stream 2 v Parliament and Council

Moving the Goalpost? Policy and Regulatory Issues Concerning Ghana's Renewable Energy Integration Targets

Quest for Energy Transition - The Role of Renewable Energy Development in Ghana

Ghana's Changing Electricity Supply Mix and Tariff Pricing Regime: Implications for the Energy Trilemma

In Memoriam Yamani. A Symbol of the Oil Age... Who Predicted its Demise... Has Passed Away

Learning from Best Practice: Contextualisation of Regulatory Principles in the Evolving Upstream Health and Safety Regulation Sphere in Ghana, with Hindsight from the United States of America Outer Continental Shelf and the United Kingdom Continental Shelf

Estimating Fair Market Value of Nigerian Petroleum Assets: A Risk-Based Approach

Good Oil, Clean Waters? Ghana's Oil Decade and Environmental Protection

The Hydrogen Hope? Challenges and Opportunities for an Australian Hydrogen Industry

Taxonomy Regulation, Principle of Technological Neutrality and Delegated Acts - Does the Draft Screening Regulation Comply with EU Law Requirements?

Now available in OGEL 5 (2020): What Should be the ESG Preconditions to Development of the Cyprus Gas Fields?

Well-Trodden Path for International Arbitration Use in Ukrainian Gas Transportation Sphere

Addendum OGEL 5 (2020) - The Legal, Environmental and Social Prospects of the Term 'Good Oilfield Practice' within the Onshore Upstream Oil Industry: Law in the Making?

Evolutive Interpretation of Treaties - The Case of Green Hydrogen under the Energy Charter Treaty

How Will EU Policies Shape the Clean Hydrogen Funding Landscape?

Virtuous or Vicious Circles? The Assessment of the Newly Adopted Angolan Local Content Decree for the Petroleum Sector

Rebuilding the Texas Railroad Commission

International Oil Spill Disputes

Long-Term Sales and Purchase Contracts: To Be or Not To Be?

The Inevitability of Legal Flexibility over Certainty - the Case of Local Content Requirements in the Upstream Petroleum Sectors

Harnessing Stand-Alone Bio-Energies in Nigeria: Some Policy and Regulatory Considerations

Addendum OGEL 5 (2019) - The Baltic Pipe in Context: The Geopolitical and Normative Analysis

Policy Shift to Impact Renewable Energy Projects in Mexico

Can the New Algerian Hydrocarbon Law Revitalise the Oil & Gas Sector?

State Immunity and UK Legal Actions Involving Kurdish Oil and Gas

Long-Term Take-or-Pay Agreements in Natural Gas Industry: Past, Present and Future

Brentrification: Modifying the Brent Crude Oil Model to Create a Global LNG Pricing Benchmark with Standardized Contract Terms

LNG Contract Adjustments in Difficult Times: The Interplay between Force Majeure, Change of Circumstances, Hardship, and Price Review Clauses

The Portfolio SPA: A Tool of Portfolio Marketing

"Try to be more like Norway on a Sunny Day!" Regulatory Capitalism and the Challenges of Combatting Corruption in Indonesia's Upstream Oil and Gas Sector Supply Chains

Examining the Legal Framework Guaranteeing Discharge of Decommissioning Liabilities by Insolvent Oil Companies in Nigeria: Lessons from Canada's Regulatory Regime

Now available in OGEL 1 (2020): Tracing Social Licence to Operate in the Mining Sector of Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Addendum OGEL 5 (2019) - Heading Towards a New Era of Natural Gas Market Regulation in Greece: Licensing Framework in a Transitional Period for the Natural Gas Market

Energy Security Along the New Silk Road. Energy Law and Geopolitics in Central Asia by Anatole Boute - Book Review

Now available in OGEL 1 (2020) - Examining Legal, Regulatory and Social Risks to Investment in the Energy Sector

Fate and Reform Catalyze Expansion of the Brazilian Natural Gas Market and Open Up Opportunities to LNG

Carbon Barriers to Trade: WTO Law Issues

The 2019 Norwegian Snow Crab Case: Any Implication for Arctic Natural Resources?

Now available in OGEL 5 (2019): Need for Long-Term Commitments in Cross-Border Gas Pipeline in Europe

Now available in OGEL 1 (2020): A Review of the Social Licence to Operate (SLO) in East Africa's Extractives Sectors

Legal Evidence of an Oil Supply Monopsony: The U.S. and Saudi Arabia before 1974

Addendum OGEL 5 (2019) - EU Gas Market Regulation of Offshore Transmission Lines: The Derogation for Completed Projects (Art. 49a of Directive 2009/73)

Addendum OGEL 3 (2019): The Controversial Case of Hinkley Point C: A Straw on the Back of a Sustainable Energy Union?

Sustainability Provisions in Canadian Investment Agreements with African LDCs: A Social Licence to Operate?

Decarbonization and the Integration of Renewables in Transitional Energy Markets: Examining the Power to Gas Option in the United States

Understanding the Energy Transition Terrain in Kenya

Foreign Control in the Energy Charter Treaty: A Company for All Seasons?

Relationships Between Mining Companies and Local Communities under the 2011 Guinean Mining Code: An Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing LDAs and LEDFs

Looking at Environmental Impact Assessment from a Transnational Petroleum Company's Perspective

Book Review Philip Andrews-Speed & Sufang Zhang, China as a Global Clean Energy Champion—Lifting the Veil, Palgrave-Macmillan 2019 (Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies)

The EU-Energy Package WTO Panel Report: Systemic Implications for EU Energy Policy on Pipelines Transportation of Natural Gas

Canadian Experience with Social Licence to Operate

The Law of the Land. Practices, Policies and Regulations Regarding Access to Lands for Energy Projects in Mexico

Hardship in the Energy Sector

The Social License to Operate in the OHADA Zone: Mapping an Emerging and Fragmented Concept in an Integrated Legal Space

Getting a Social License: Enough to Catch the Elusive Ghost in Town?

Social License to Operate (SLO) in the Shale Sector: A Contextual Study of the European Union

Wind Energy, Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Southern Mexico

Legal Status of Offshore Drilling Units - An Iranian Perspective

Book Review: Agricultural Land Use and Natural Gas Extraction Conflicts: A Global Socio-Legal Perspective by Madeline Taylor and Tina Soliman Hunter

The Moral Case Against Social License to Operate

Groningen Gas: The Loss of a Social License to Operate

Range of Disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty

The Impact of Force Majeure and Economic Sanctions on Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Financing (EPCF) Contracts - An Examination of Contractual Liabilities

The External Effects of the Energy Union Strategy on Trade and Investment in Renewable Energy from the EU to Vietnam: an Initial Assessment

EU Gas Market Amendment - Despite of Compromise, Problems Remain

From Total Immunization to an Economic Balancing Act: The Trajectory of Stabilization Clauses in Ghana's Petroleum Agreements

Addenda OGEL 3 (2017) - The Risk in Bank Charges Mechanism of Iranian Petroleum Buyback Contract; and Commentary ...

Now available: Final Award in Mobil Cerro Negro, Ltd. v. Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. et al. (ICC Case No. 15415/JRF, December 11, 2011) - (Alvarez, Salàs and Böckstiegel, Chair).