U.N. ISSUES REPORT ON NATURAL GAS CLAUSES

  The U.N. Centre on Transnational
  Corporations has issued a report containing guidelines and
  recommendations for negotiating natural gas clauses in
  agreements between transnational petroleum corporations and
  host countries.
      The U.N. said the report was aimed at promoting petroleum
  exploration in areas perceived as being gas prone. The 49-page
  report contains an in-depth examination of the problems of gas
  developoment and looks at different ways in which contractual
  terms might deal with the risks in gas development associated
  with pricing, marketing and volume.
  

