Summary, 1st Part

The study deals with the mining factor in delimitations of State's territory, both on land and offshore. In so doing, it makes clear the concept of plurilinear boundary in order to explain the idea of Joint Development Zone (JDZ). The bringing together of legal categories, onshore delimitation and boundary legal category and offshore delimitation and boundary legal category, is scrutinized in order to show the existence of six basic territorial formulas, common to onshore and offshore State territories.

Plan, 1st Part

First part
TERRITORIALITY OF THE UNITY OF DEPOSIT

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Summary, 2nd Part

The study opposes the idea of "no rule of international law" on petroleum cross-boundary fields question. It investigates customary international law on mining and petroleum rights, and it points out and deals with international responsability of States in the matter of divided hydrocarbon deposits.
The study intends to lay greater stress on the need for complementary notions from internal law to be included up in the making of the unity of deposit concept, showing how a complementary notion does play an important role in making it practical.
This is why the basic material concept proposed in the study is "gisement divisé" (divided deposit). It should be emphasized that this is done in order to show that the unity of deposit concept does not deal only with economic considerations but has to do also with security considerations, such as protection of human life on mining sites.
The study takes on interest in technical aspects regarding production of hydrocarbon reservoirs and mining exploitation, both divided by international boundaries. It comes close to relations between law and engineering.
Models of production for hydrocarbon divided deposits in international law and models of ownership formulas for reserves in such situation are determined.

Plan, 2nd Part

Second part
NORMATIVITY OF THE UNITY OF DEPOSIT

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Schedules

Appendices : no documents (treaties) enclosed. A special Bibliography relating to treaties and other diplomatic documents appears under the title REPERTOIRE DES TRAITES (RdT).

Bibliography : 4 lists of books and articles appear, in the matter of 1/ International Law, 2/ Petroleum and Mining Law, 3/ Petroleum Production Engineering and Mining, and 4/ General Knowledge on Oil and Gas.

Indexes : the 10 indexes (included in the complete original manuscript) are not published.

List of Treaties

308 international treaties and declarations are listed in the REPERTOIRE DES TRAITES. A number of bibliography references are indicated and a special focus about the text used in the book L'UNITE DE GISEMENT is pointed out.

ILLUSTRATIONS (foreword)

BOOK : no sketchmaps enclosed within, except theoretical plans and diagrams regarding delimitations inside mining territories and petroleum production.

SKETCHBOOK : vulume formed with 4 Series of sheets showing maps (CAHIERS DE CROQUIS) on lands and submerged lands, delimitations of territories and mineral exploitations (Not published).

FILES : 2 different collections of separate Booklets (GISEMENTS & FRONTIERES), with short treaties added to sketchmaps included (Not published).