Handbook of Shale Gas Law and Policy Energy & Law Series, Vol. 18

Petroleum law and policy in the UK to date has focused on the oil and gas resources in the North Sea, and their regulation over the last fifty years. However, a new source of petroleum in the UK is emerging - that of the unconventional petroleum resource of shale gas.

This book will be a thematic book considering the shale gas law and regulation. Whilst there will be a focus on the UK, the book will place it within a wider global context.

Rather than a theoretical focus, the book aims to have a practical, applicable focus, so that the reader can apply the legal principles and policies to their jurisdiction.

It will focus on five major themes: overview and introduction to shale gas activities; shale gas economics and energy security; access to shale gas resources; shale gas law and regulation; and the future of shale gas.

Tina Hunter is reader in Energy Law and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. She has a background in Geology and Geomorphology, research and comparative Petroleum Law. She has a PhD entitled “Legal regulatory framework for the sustainable extraction of Australian offshore petroleum resources: a functional analysis” (2010) at the University of Bergen, Norway; a Juris Doctor (Hons) (2006); M. App. Sc. (Dist) (2000); G. Dip A (1993) (Information Science) and a BA (Hons) (1989) (Marine Geology and Sedimentology).

She was previously Director of the Centre for International Petroleum, Minerals and Energy Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. She teaches and researches in the area of upstream petroleum law (both onshore and offshore), resources law in the Arctic and shale gas law, and continues to teach in Australia and Norway.