Nigeria the political economy of oil - Ahmad Khan, Sarah (Oxford Oxford University Press for the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 1994)
Introduction -- The political and institutional environment -- Politics and the Nigerian Oil Industry. The legal Framework. Oil-Producing Companies and the Evolution of the concession pattern -- NNPC -- Structure and place in the Nigerian oil industry -- Nigeria and OPEC -- The Nigerian upstream sector -- Producing areas and oilfields -- Reserves -- Exploration and Development -- Crude oil production -- Types of crude oil -- Nigerian concessions and equity Producers -- Oil Company Participation. Joint ventures -- Production-sharing contracts -- Risk-service contracts -- The fiscal regime -- Production costs - -Producing companies and investment plans -- Problems of and prospects for government-oil company relations -- The international trade and pricing of Nigerian crudes -- Nigerian pricing policies -- Price formulae -- The marketing of Nigerian crude oil -- International trade in Nigerian crude oil -- Crude oil loading terminals and storage facilities -- The Nigerian downstream -- Domestic product pricing -- The domestic supply and demand imbalance in refined products -- Nigerian domestic refineries -- The distribution and storage of petroleum products -- The Nigerian Petrochemicals Industry -- Outlook for the Nigerian downstream sector -- The Nigerian natural gas industry natural gas reserves, exploration and production -- Gas flaring -- Domestic gas use and supply systems -- New projects -- LNG projects: past and present -- Issues and future prospects in natural gas utilization -- Oil and the economy -- Oil Revenues and Government Expenditure -- The agriculture sector. The Introduction of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). Nigerian External Accounts -- Policy failure and the lack of public accountability.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-229) and index.
Keywords: Petroleum industry and trade -- Nigeria