University of Dundee
University of Dundee

University of Dundee

Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4HN, United Kingdom Dundee, United Kingdom Visit web page

International Oil and Gas Law and Policy

Study detals

: Master's degree : LLM (Hons) International Oil and Gas Law and Policy : Full time : 12 Month

Requirements

Your degree should be in law, economics, finance, geology, petroleum, or mining engineering.

English language requirements

IELTS Academic

  • Overall 6.5
  • Writing 6.0
  • Listening 5.5
  • Reading 5.5
  • Speaking 6.0

We also accept other English language qualifications. (TOEFEL iBT, Trinity ISE, LANGUAGECERT Academic..)

Don’t meet the English language requirements?

Pre-sessional English for international students. If you hold a conditional offer and have not yet met the English entry requirements for a degree course at the University, we can help you with our pre-sessional English courses.

Speciality

Pathways Available: Pre-Master's

15 months : 3 months pathway + 1 year degree

18 months : 6 months pathway + 1 year degree

International College Dundee

If you do not meet our academic grade requirements for your chosen course, we can offer you an alternative route to begin your studies. Our international incorporated degrees will develop your subject knowledge, academic English and university level study skills.

Tuition fees for International students will increase by no more than 5% per year for the length of your course.

Additional information

Degree Overview

In this course you will learn how governments regulate the oil industry. You will study the rules and regulations set out by producer governments dealing with oil and gas investors, and how the concerns of investors are dealt with.

You’ll examine the nature of the right to petroleum in the ground onshore and offshore, and the different ways in which governments can transfer or share the petroleum right with investors.

You will also learn about:
comparing the legal structure of each transfer and its practical result, risk sharing mechanisms amongst investors, how a government enforces its policy goals – depletion, safety, and environmental protection, the contractual matrix surrounding oil and gas production projects, the tax structures for resource and corporate taxes, the fundamentals of petroleum economics and the influence of changing oil prices and the nature of decommissioning installations and paying for decommissioning.