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Joint Development As An Appropriate Legal Response To Overlapping Maritime Claims, Kingsley Sawyerr Mr, Chisom Udechukwu Miss

Kingsley Sawyerr

There is much ado about the significance of natural resources, particularly hydrocarbons, perceived as vital to States for strategic, economic and environmental reasons. Consequently, inter-State disputes are inevitable where hydrocarbon resources are located in areas without clear boundary delimitations. Disputes can also occur as a result of the possibility of hydrocarbon resources straddling boundary lines due to its fugacious character.

Land boundaries are pretty much easily defined, with each State restricted to its territorial sovereignty. Maritime boundaries on the other hand are not always clearly defined. Although the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provide some examples of bilateral treaties establishing …

Nigeria's Abundant Gas Reserves And Shortfall In Electricity: An Apparent Case Of Under-Utilization, Kingsley Sawyerr

Kingsley Sawyerr

It is common knowledge in the international oil and gas industry that gas is gaining significant share in the global energy mix, and the World Bank estimates that the global demand for gas will outstrip oil by the year 2025. Global demand for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is set to rise by 9 % a year during the next decade with Nigeria playing a key role in supplies. According to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011, Nigeria has an estimated 187 Trillion Cubic Feet (Tcf) of proven natural gas reserves as of December 2010, making it the ninth …