The Oil and Gas Law Committee focuses on issues such as:

• Exploration and production for all forms of hydrocarbons
• Onshore and offshore oil and gas
• Joint Operating Agreements and other usual contracts used by the industry
• Financing and insurance
• Comparative tax regimes
• State participation and national oil companies
• Trans-national pipelines storage and refining
• Sales and shipping agreements
• Alternative dispute resolutions
• Exploration and production
• Licensing, PSA, other regimes
• Downstream issues
• Oil and Gas trade and marketing
• Natural Gas Transportation and Distribution
• LNG chain
• Hydrocarbons regulatory bodies and agencies

Additionally, the Oil and Gas Law Committee works with the following committees to form the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law:

• Environment, Health and Safety Law
• International Construction Projects
• Mining Law
• Power Law
• Water Law

The IBA Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) normally offers a scholarship each year for a young lawyer, who would not normally be able to owing to financial constraints, to attend the IBA Annual Conference. Scholarship details are available here. The IBA Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL), together with its Academic Advisory Group (AAG), are delighted to announce that they are again accepting applications from students requiring funding for advanced studies or research in the fields of energy and natural resources law. The scholarships and research grants, up to a total of £18,000 a year, and is open to students at any institution where at least one member of the faculty is an IBA/SEERIL member.