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Finders keepers? : how the law of capture shaped the world oil industry /
Since the beginnings of the oil industry, production activity has been governed by the 'law of capture, ' dictating that one owns the oil recovered from one's property even if it has migrated from under neighboring land. This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
RFF Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since the beginnings of the oil industry, production activity has been governed by the 'law of capture, ' dictating that one owns the oil recovered from one's property even if it has migrated from under neighboring land. This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated by foreign critics as a 'law of the jungle' and identified by American commentators as the root cause of the enormous waste of oil and gas resulting from U.S. production methods in the first half of the 20th century. Yet while in almost every other country the law of capture is today of marginal significance, it continues in. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 500 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781936331765 1936331764 9781933115832 1933115831 9781933115849 193311584X 9781136522840 1136522840 9786612789984 6612789980 |