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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Decarbonisation and the Energy Industry: Law, Policy, and Regulation in Low-Carbon Energy Markets, Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK (2020).
Regulating Gas Supply to Power Markets: Transnational Approaches to Competitiveness and Security of Supply, Wolters Kluwer International (2018).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Transnational Approaches to Controlling Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations, in Yulia Yamineva, Kati Kulovesi, and Eugenia Recio (eds.) Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Perspectives on Law and Governance (Brill, 2023) pp. 364–391
‘Regulating Gas Flaring Emissions from Upstream Operations on US Federal Lands and in Nigeria’ in Damilola S. Olawuyi and Eduardo G. Pereira (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Natural Gas and Global Energy Transitions, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp.197–225
‘The US Gas Supply Boom under Carbon-Constraints: Examining the Role of Regulatory Institutions’ in Decarbonisation and the Energy Industry: the role of law and regulation in low-carbon and transitional energy markets, Tade Oyewunmi et al. (eds), Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK (November 2020).
‘Decarbonising Gas and Electricity Systems: an outlook on Power-to-Gas and other Innovative Solutions’ in Decarbonisation and the Energy Industry: the role of law and regulation in low-carbon and transitional energy markets, Tade Oyewunmi et al., (eds), Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK (forthcoming fall 2020).
‘Gas commercialisation projects in West Africa: pipelines, LNG and gas-to-power in Routledge Handbook of Energy Law by Tina Hunter et al., (eds), (Routledge, 2020).
‘The Evolving International Gas Market and Energy Security in Nigeria’ in Energy in African Developing Economies: Policy, Management, and Sustainability, Sola Adesola and Prof. Feargal Brennan (eds.), pp. 117-145 (Palgrave Macmillan (2019).
Nigeria: Energy Policy (Sub-Saharan Africa - Energy Policy Section), in Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy, Prof. Peter Cameron et al. eds., Springer (13 September 2017).
‘Security Implications of Conflicts, Crises and Disasters in the International Energy Industry: Legal and Policy Considerations’ in Susan C. Breau & Katja L.H. Samuel (eds), Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, pp. 272-294 (Edward Elgar, 2016)
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND EDITORIALS
OGEL Energy Law Journal Editorials
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Special issue on International Energy and Investment Law Implications of the US Inflation Reduction Act
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OGEL 2 (2022) Law and Policy for Gas Flaring in a Low-carbon Economy
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OGEL 1 (2019) Energy Law and Regulation in Low-carbon and Transitional Energy Market
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OGEL 1 (2017) Oil and Gas Law in West Africa
'Managing Risks and Transactional Issues in CO2 Offtake and Transportation Agreements and CCUS Projects in the US' (OGEL Energy Law Journal, 2024)
'Offtake and Transportation Agreements in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Projects” Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, 6-1 (Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, 2024) (co-authored with Ryan Haddad)
Underground Property Rights for Carbon Capture, (Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Insights Newsletter) June 7, 2023
‘The Regulatory State and the Emerging Offshore Wind Energy Market in the US’ Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy Journal (Fall, 2022) 13(1), pp. 1 – 46.
‘Regulating Offshore Wind Energy Development and Interconnections with Electricity Markets’ ABA's Natural Resources & Environment (Winter 2022 Issue)
Natural Gas in a Carbon-Constrained World: Examining the Role of Institutions in Curbing
Methane and Other Fugitive Emissions, LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources (Volume IX,
Issue I, 2020)
‘Ownership and Utilization of Subsurface Pore Spaces in North Dakota – A Comment on Recent Legal Developments’ Natural Resources Law Insights, December 2022 (also available here)
Resilience, Reliability, and Gas to Power Systems in the US: An Energy Policy Outlook in the Era of Decarbonisation The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, (jwab022, 2021)
An Instrumental Perspective on Power-to-Gas, Hydrogen, and a Spotlight on New York’s Emerging Climate and Energy Policy, 38 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. (2021)
'Emerging Trends in Resource-Rich Sub-Saharan Africa and a Spotlight on the Nigerian Transitional Energy Market' Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol 29, Issue 1, (2021) (co-authored with Ivie Ehanmo)
‘Decarbonization and the Integration of Renewables in Transitional Energy Markets: Examining the Power to Gas Option in the United States’ co-authored with Heather Dziedzic, Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence Journal (OGEL) 4 (2020).
‘International Petroleum Transactions and the Development of Gas-to-Power Markets in West Africa’ Special Issue on Energy Law and Regulation in Low-carbon and Transitional Energy Markets, OGEL 1 (2019).
‘Natural gas in Nigeria and Tanzania: Can it turn on lights?’ (co-authored with Dr. Rahmat Poudineh, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies), Oxford Energy Forum - Electrifying Africa, Issue 115, pp. 14-20 (2018).
‘Examining the Role of Regulation in Restructuring and Development of Gas Supply Markets in the United States and the European Union’ 40(1) Houston Journal of International Law, 191-296 (2017).
‘Regulatory and Policy Issues for Natural Gas Supply to Power Markets: Examining the Energy Supply Crisis in Nigeria,’ OGEL 1, Special Issue on "Oil and Gas Law and Policy in West Africa," (2017).
‘Energy Security and Gas Supply Regulation in the European Union’s Internal Market’ (2015) 3(3)
European Networks Law & Regulation Quarterly 187 – 202
‘Natural Gas Exploration and Production in Nigeria and Mozambique: Legal and Contractual Issues’, Special Issue on Natural Gas Developments: An International and Challenging Legal Framework OGEL (2015)
‘Regulatory Issues in the Downstream Gas Sector and Emerging Electricity Supply Industry in Nigeria’, Fourth Quarter International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Energy Forum 33-37 (2014)
‘Examining the Legal and Regulatory Framework for Domestic Gas Utilization and Power Generation in Nigeria’, (2014) 7(6) Journal of World Energy Law & Business 538 - 557
'Legal and Policy Issues for Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms in the Evolving European Internal Energy Market', 23(3) European Energy and Environmental Law Review 76–88 (2014) (co-authors- Kaisa Huhta, James Kroeger, and Piti Eiamchamroonlarp)
'International Best Practices and Participation in a Private Sector Driven Electricity Industry in Nigeria: Recent Regulatory Developments', 8 International Energy Law Review 306 - 314 (2013)
‘Examining the legal and regulatory framework for domestic gas utilization and power generation in Nigeria’ 7(6) Journal of World Energy Law & Business, pp. 538–557 (2014).
'Stabilisation and Renegotiation Clauses in Production Sharing Contracts: Examining the Problems and Key Issues' OGEL 6 (2011)
'Emissions Trading Scheme and Gas Flaring in the United Kingdom Continental Shelf: A Comment', 5 (2011) International Energy Law Review 193-199
SEMINARS & CONFERENCES
Emerging Legal and Regulatory Developments in the Commercialization and Use of Underground Pore Spaces for Energy Decarbonization Operations, 2023 North Dakota Law Review Energy Law Symposium, Thursday, March 23, 2023, Bismarck, ND
‘Transnational considerations arising from the EU's security of energy supply crisis’ webinar hosted by the Centre for American and International Law's Institute for Energy Law (IEL) on December 14, 2022
'Rationality, Public Choice, and the Energy Policy Dimensions of Offshore Wind Developments in the Northeast US Coastal Area' working paper presented at the Natural Resources Law Teachers Institute, June 3-4, 2021 hosted by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the Institute for Energy Law, the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, and the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.
Regulatory Incentives, Tax Credits, and Carbon Capture and Utilisation Projects in the US, Congressional Staff Briefing on the Repeal of Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Congressional Staff Briefing on Fossil Fuel Subsidies (April 16, 2021)
Resilience, Reliability, and Gas to Power Systems in the US: an Energy Policy Outlook in the Era of Decarbonisation, Faculty Workshop paper at Saint Louis University School of Law, Missouri, US, March 24, 2021.
A webinar presentation on 'Power-to-Gas, Hydrogen, and a Spotlight on New York's Emerging Climate and Energy Policy, at the Maryland/Pace Law School Climate Change Seminar, October 12, 2020 (Forthcoming in Pace Environmental Law Review, Spring, 2021)
Panel Moderator, 11th Annual Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship, Vermont Law School, (September 26, 2020)
‘Decarbonization Options for Gas and Electricity Systems: Power-to-Gas (P2G) and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)’ at the University of Houston Law Center’s 1st Annual Conference on Global Energy Transition Law And Policy, 2020
‘Methane Emissions and the International Gas Industry’ AIPN International Scholars Workshop, Houston, TX, USA (May 24, 2019).
'OPEC and the International Oil Markets- Evolution and Contractual Issues' Guest Lecturer, Louisiana State University Law School, Baton Rouge, LA, April 5, 2019
‘Reforming Gas-To-Power Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy and Regulatory Challenges’ 41st I international Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) International Conference in Groningen, Netherlands (June 10–13, 2018).
‘International LNG and Gas Commercialisation Arrangements’ at the University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) Energy Seminar Series, Houston, TX, USA (November 16, 2017).
‘Property Rights and Domestic Gas Supply Obligations in the International Gas Industry’ the Land and Resources Law Colloquium, College of Law, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA (October 20, 2017)
Stabilisation and Investment Protection in International Gas Commercialisation Arrangements, (2017 UEF Law School’s “Energy Transitions” Conference, Joensuu, Finland)
The International Gas Industry: Energy Security and Policy Considerations, (2016, 1st Italian Association for Energy Economics Energy Symposium on “Current and Future Challenges to Energy Security” Millan, Italy)
Gas Supply to Power Markets in Nigeria: A Regulatory and Economic Assessment, (2016, 9th NAEE/IAEE International Conference on “Energising Emerging Economies: The Role of Natural Gas and Renewable Energy,” Abuja, Nigeria)
Security of Gas Supply and Energy Market Regulation: Outlook and Implications in the EU, (2015, 33rd USAEE/IAEE North American Conference, “The Dynamic Energy Landscape” Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
The Evolving International Gas Market and the Security of Gas Supply to Power Markets in Nigeria, (2015, Thurgood Marshall School of Law Energy Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA)
Domestic Gas Utilisation and Power Generation in Nigeria: Examining the Legal and Regulatory Framework, (2014, 7th NAEE/IAEE International Energy Conference on “Energy Access and Economic Development, Abuja, Nigeria)
