Offshore Petroleum Resources Law

This document is part of the source library for NRGI's 2021 Resource Governance Index, a comprehensive measure of the quality of natural resource governance in oil, gas and mineral-rich countries. To access the full dataset and all other index resources, visit https://resourcegovernanceindex.org.

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Sector Oil and Gas
Country Lebanon
Year
RGI Edition Year 2021
Topic Contract transparency and monitoring, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, Revenue management, Sovereign wealth funds, State-owned enterprises, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type PDF
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RGI Questions 1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?,
1.1b: Who is the licensing authority (i.e. who has the authority to grant exploration and extraction rights to companies)?,
1.1.3d: Is the licensing authority independent from the SOE?,
1.1c: What licensing process does the licensing authority follow?,
1.1.3a: Is the government required to set pre-defined criteria by which companies become qualified to participate in a licensing process?,
1.1.3c: Prior to each license process, is the licensing authority required to disclose the rules governing the licensing process, such as auction or negotiation rules?,
1.1.10d: Is the legislature required to ratify licenses/contracts?,
1.1.2a: Does a government agency maintain a publicly available registry of rights and license details (i.e. a cadaster)?,
1.1.2b: Is the publicly available registry of licenses/contracts available online, offline or in paper?,
1.2a: What is the fiscal system for extractive resources?,
1.2.5c: Do rules specify the level of state equity (or options for state equity such as carried interest) in extractive companies ?,
1.2.6a: Is the government required to make all payments to the national treasury or deposit them into a national resource account, aside from amounts legally retained by SOEs?,
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?,
1.3.7b: Are there specific procedures governing the resettlement of land users when project development interferes with their access to or use of land?,
1.3.5b: Are there rules governing rehabilitation and closure of extractive projects?,
2.3a: Does the country have a natural resource fund which is funded by extractive resource revenues?,
4.2.1a: Does the state-owned enterprise publish information on expenditure for exploration and appraisal of new upstream projects in that reporting year?,
4.2.1b: Does the state-owned enterprise publish information on expenditure for development of new upstream projects in that reporting year?,
4.2.1c: Does the state-owned enterprise publish information on it's projected future expenditure on exploration, appraisal and the development of new projects?,
4.2.1d: From 2019 onwards, has the government or a state-owned enterprise disclosed estimated break-even prices for current or projected future upstream projects?,
5.6b: Do existing rules governing the compensation and resettlement process include the following principles: - principle of consent of affected persons - principle of replacement cost for compensation - the right to be assisted for the restoration of livelihoods - the right to appeal against decisions on compensations.,
5.6c: Are there rules requiring the disclosure of the Resettlement Action Plan or the Livelihood Restoration Plan, in the event that they are required when a project interferes with people's livelihoods?
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Source or API link https://www.lpa.gov.lb/Library/Assets/Gallery/asdasdas/Laws/OPRL%20-%20English.pdf
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
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