Legal Research Quarterly

Legal Research Quarterly

Origins, Causes and Typology of Disputes in Petroleum Contracts

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Ensieh Mohajeri 1
Mahmoud Reza Firoozmand 2
1 PhD candidate, Petroleum Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
2 , Assistant Professor of Energy and Petroleum Law, Petroleum University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
10.29252/jlr.2021.221413.1891
Abstract
The adverse impacts of disputes on performance and economic of petroleum projects as well as the social costs of disputes for the parties necessitate the application of dispute avoidance strategies in petroleum contracts. In this regard, understanding the origins and causes of disputes is of great importance. Studying the disputes arisen out of petroleum contracts identifies that the disputes originate from the nature of petroleum contracts as an Economic Development Agreement (EDA); special features of these contracts or the industry, such as: uncertainties inherent in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas, vast area of the projects, social and political sensitivities toward petroleum industry specially in the oil producing countries, and the multiplicity of the contributors of petroleum contracts. Hence, concentrating on the constituent elements of contracts, disputes are attributed to either the subject matter of a contract or the specific nature of the parties to a contract.
Keywords
Petroleum Contracts
Risks
Disputes
Causes of Disputes
Subjects

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  • Receive Date 13 April 2021
  • Revise Date 31 October 2021
  • Accept Date 07 November 2021