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Non-renewable Natural Resources in Federations

March 3–4, 2010
World Bank Headquarters
in Washington, D.C.:

Forum co-organizes
Washington Conference

Conference on Oil and
Gas in Federal Systems

The Forum of Federations proposes to conduct an initial scoping project to collate base-line or scoping information on oil and gas arrangements and issues in selected federations.

Given the complexity of these issues, the Forum proposes to engage experts knowledgeable about the oil and gas arrangements in each of the federations studied with a view to having them answer a series of questions about their respective countries. The objective is to have completed country reports by the end of March, 2009. Once the initial papers are complete, the Forum will consider, in consultation with potential partners and the authors contributing to the project, what further work might be done in this area. This staged approach is being adopted as a way to help define what might be the most promising issues for focus in further work. It is expected that the next stages of the project will involve one or more workshops or conferences, as well as an eventual publication. Eleven countries have been selected for the initial phase: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, the United States, and Venezuela.

Collaborators

Argentina: Juan Antonio Zapata, University of Mendoza
Australia: Michael Crommelin, University of Melbourne
Brazil: Helder Q. Pinto Junior
Canada: André Plourde, University of Alberta
India:
- Ligia Noronha, Director, Resources and Global Security, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
- Nidhi Srivastava
Malaysia: Wee Chong Hui, Professor Universiti Teknologi MARA
Mexico: Victor Carreon, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
- Juan Rosellon, Visiting Researcher, Dpt. of Business Management and Economics, Dresden University of Technology
Nigeria: Wumi Iledare, Director, Energy Information Division, Louisiana State University
Russia:
- Galina Kurlyandskaya, Centre for Fiscal Policy
- Mikhail Subbotin, Russia, Director, PSA-Expertise, Advisor, Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources
USA:
- Peter Mieszkowski, Rice University
- Ronald Soligo, Rice University
Venezuela:
- Francisco J. Monaldi, Director, International Center for Energy and the Environment (IESA)
- Osmel Manzano, Senior Research Economist, Inter-American Development Bank
- Jose Manuel Puente, Professor of Economics, International Center for Energy and the Environment (IESA)
- Stephanie Vitale, Researcher, International Center for Energy and the Environment (IESA)