Decree Law No. 4 of 1977 on Preserving Petroleum Resources

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	Qatar
Year	1977
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?, 1.4a: What proportion of equity shares does the government own in extractive companies?, 1.4.7a: Are there rules that govern how the SOE should select the buyers of its production?, 2.2c: Do rules specify that subnational governments of producing areas should receive a higher share of extractive resource revenues than those of non-producing areas?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
Publisher	Qatar Legal Portal
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Source or API link	http://www.almeezan.qa/LawPage.aspx?id=2716&language=en
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute