Petroleum Act 1969

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	Trinidad and Tobago
Year	1969
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?, 1.1.9a: Is the government required to publicly disclose all signed licenses/contracts with extractive companies?, 1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?, 1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?, 1.3.7a: Are there rules governing compensation to landowners or land users when project development interferes with their access to or use of land?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
Publisher	Trinidad and Tobago
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Source or API link	http://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web2/revision/bytitle?max=30&q=p&format=&offset=90
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute