Finders keepers? : how the law of capture shaped the world oil industry

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Finders keepers? : how the law of capture shaped the world oil industry

Terence Daintith

RFF Press, 2010

  • : hardback
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references [p. 439-480] and index

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Since the beginnings of the oil industry, production activity has been governed by the 'law of capture,' dictating that one owns the oil recovered from one's property even if it has migrated from under neighboring land. This 'finders keepers' principle has been excoriated by foreign critics as a 'law of the jungle' and identified by American commentators as the root cause of the enormous waste of oil and gas resulting from US production methods in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet while in almost every other country the law of capture is today of marginal significance, it continues in full vigour in the United States, with potentially wasteful results. In this richly documented account, Terence Daintith adopts a historical and comparative perspective to show how legal rules, technical knowledge (or the lack of it) and political ideas combined to shape attitudes and behavior in the business of oil production, leading to the original adoption of the law of capture, its consolidation in the United States, and its marginalization elsewhere.

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Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginnings of the Rule of Capture in the United States 1. Naming and Blaming 2. The Leading Cases and their Legal Background 3. Practice and Belief in the Early Petroleum Industry Part II: Alternatives and Parallels 4. The Mineral Water Industry in France: Protection and Competition 5. Asphalt in Trinidad: Digging your Neighbour's Pitch 6. America's Early Oil Rivals: Petroleum and Property Rights in Galicia, Romania and Russia Part III: Modified Capture: The United States in the 20th Century 7. Correlative Rights and the Beginnings of Conservation 8. Oil and Gas in the Public Lands 9. Conservation Regulation and the Institutionalization of Capture Part IV: Evading Capture? 10. Securing Unified National Control of Petroleum Resources 11. Capture Revivified? Competitive Acreage Allocation by Governments 12. The Cross-Boundary Petroleum Deposit as a Federal and International Issue Part V: Conclusion 13. The Least Worst Property Rule? References

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