Preliminary Proposal On Construction Of Chinese Petroleum Law System

The petroleum that is regarded as important strategic resources has the great significance of economy and policy with the development of economy. It increasingly aggravated that the supply and demand contradiction of petroleum resources. Recently the trend of countries all over the world is a fight for accopying the petroleum resources maximumly and a law, as a kind of effective means of adjusting social relationships, already has been applied into the field of petroleum resources. The subject of this paper is to establish a thorough petroleum resource law system , which can adapt to development requirement of our country, provide reasonable utilization and protection of our precious oil resource and maintain the safety of our petroleum system.The paper starts from current situation of world petroleum resources and briefly introduces the current legislative situation and latest legislative trend of the world. Then it analyzes the current petroleum resources of our country as well as the management and legislative situation in petroleum industry. Finally, it concludes the existing problems and proposes the fundamental ideas for our country's oil resource law system.The essential problem to be solved in this paper is how to construct the petroleum resource law system. Basing on the current situation of our country, summing up the existing problems in the legislation, and utilizing the past experience of foreign legislation, we propose the following legislative suggestion in terms of the depth and breadth of the subject. To expand on the depth of the subject, we propose to adopt a uniform legislative mode for the whole field, which establishes the "petroleum law" as the basic law and complements it with other petroleum-specific administrative codes, local codes, departmental regulation, and internal management criterion. To expand on the breadth of the subject, we propose to establish a well-rounded law system which includes a property right system for petroleum resources, a petroleum storage system, a government supervisory system, and a safety early-warning and emergency response system. This system also encompasses the survey and exploration, process and refinement, transportation and storage, sales and distribution of petroleum resource. Through this, a well-organized, synergistic, and complete law system is formed to coordinate and merge with our basic law system.