oil-gas-management

Unitisation in Oil and Gas Industry: Issues and Challenges

Course fees for tuition, materials and certification: $5900.00 (Excl. VAT) per delegate for 1 week.

7th-11th April 2025 (London, UK),

Course Overview

    As part of ongoing processes of managing oil and gas reserves, it is important for investors, operators and host governments to develop strategies for dealing with discoveries that extend beyond certain operational or geographical boundaries.

    This course will be suitable for those responsible for joint management of oil and gas reservoirs with multiple owners of rights in the discoveries.

Learning Outcome

    Participants will have better understanding of:
      - Fundamentals and goals of unit formation
      - The rule of capture and boundary determination
      - Extant laws regulating pooling and unitisation
      - Unit operating agreements and accounting procedures
      - Governments’ regulations and statutory agencies
     

Indicative Contents

    - Overview of unitisation
      - Understanding the rule of capture
      - Pooling and unitisation regulatory framework
      - International legal principles, joint and cross boarder unitisation
      - Unit negotiations, determination and revision of unit factors
      - Unit operating agreements, laws and  regulatory authorities
      - Fundamentals & goals of unitisation – correlative rights (the “fair share” doctrine)
      - Pooling  – voluntary v. compulsory unitisation
      - Participation and investment factors
      - Reservoir definition & well production
      - Relationship to license & production sharing contract
      - Inclusion of other interests (royalty & overriding royalty)
      - Inclusion of non-straddling reservoirs & facilities
      - Lifting, balancing & associated agreements
       - Licenses & extensions
      - Assignments & fractional interests

More Detail
Duration This is a one week programme spread over 5 working days.
Certification A certificate of completion is granted on successful completion of the programme.
Location (London, UK)
Travel and accommodation Travel and accommodation to be paid for at source by delegates
Fees

Course fees for tuition, materials and certification: $5900.00 (Excl. VAT) per delegate for 1 week.