The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2007

Nigeria's Oil & Gas Legal System

22 March 2010 to 26 March 2010
Lagos, Nigeria

Nigeria's Oil & Gas Legal System Programme

Below is approximate programme timings for our courses:

  • 08:00 Registration (day 1 only)
  • 08:30 Morning coffee
  • 09:00 Start of course
  • 10:30 Mid-morning refreshment break
  • 12:30 Lunch
  • 15:00 Mid-afternoon refreshment break
  • 17:00 End of day (last day finishes around 16:30)
To receive a PDF brochure with the full agenda of this course, please contact Barri Sassa, tel: +44 20 7978 0007

MONDAY 22 March: DAY ONE

REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE

08:00

SESSION 1
  • Introduction
  • The structure of a petroleum regime
  • Applicable law
  • Ownership of mineral rights
  • Nigeria's petroleum law & regulations
  • Host government petroleum regimes: Petrol

09:00 - 17:00

Tuesday 23 march: DAY two

MORNING COFFEE

08:30

SESSION 2:
  • Host government contracts
  • Why petroleum regimes fail

09:00 - 17:00

wednesday 24 maRch: DAY three

MORNING COFFEE

08:30

SESSION 3
  • Upstream petroleum economics: a primer
  • Nigeria's petroleum industry bill

09:00 - 17:00

thursday 25 march: DAY four

MORNING COFFEE

08:30

SESSION 4:
  • Award systems
  • Natural gas issues
  • Administration of a petroleum regime
  • Joint development & operations

09:00 - 17:00

Friday 26 March: DAY five

MORNING COFFEE

08:30

SESSION 5:
Guest speaker: Professor Yinka Omorogbe, Company Secretary, NNPC

The Petroleum Industry Bill - The implications for the perspectives of NNPC
  • The "Resource Curse": Can the legal regime help?
  • Petroleum regimes issues for Nigeria

09:00 - 17:00