Finders keepers? : how the law of capture shaped the world oil industry - Daintith, Terence (Washington, DC : RFF Press, 2010)
The rule of capture : naming and blaming -- The leading cases and their legal background -- Practice and belief in the early petroleum industry -- The mineral water industry in France : protection and competition -- Asphalt in Trinidad : digging your neighbour's pitch -- America's early oil rivals : petroleum and property rights in Galicia, Romania and Russia -- Correlative rights and the beginnings of conservation -- Oil and gas in the public lands -- Conservation regulation and the institutionalization of capture -- Securing unified national control of petroleum resources -- Capture revivified? Competitive acreage allocation by governments -- The cross-boundary petroleum deposit as a federal and international issue -- The least worst property rule?
Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-480) and index.
Keywords: Petroleum law and legislation; Rule of capture