A Critical Evaluation of The Petroleum Regulatory Framework in The Context of Environmental Issues of South Sudan:

Abstract

This research paper makes an in-depth analysis of policy, oil and gas laws. Since South Sudan (SS) is an independence nation whose legal frameworks feature some few international treaties including regional conventions in correlation with regulatory mechanisms for mining sector, the paper attempts to approach petroleum issues in correlation with environmental protection in such context. Against this backdrop, the focus is on identifying and make comparative approach of different petroleum laws that regulate and protect the environment in the course of extracting oil and gas in Unity State of SS. The paper goes ahead to provide an analysis of the existing literature on legislation for environmental regulation in the oil and gas industry of SS. The research paper delves into the challenges being faced in environmental protection given the destruction caused by the oil and gas industry. It looks at the serious impacts oil and gas exploitation in SS has had on the soil, human and animals.

In its narrow sense, the paper is intended to examining factors that contribute to environmental pollution in the process of oil and gas extraction in the youngest nation, SS, and calls upon all involved in petroleum operation to avert such dangers associated with this resource extraction.

This study also makes a comparative analysis of how environmental regulation in the oil and gas industry is being ensured in other oil extracting jurisdictions. The paper concludes with a number of recommendations on how a sustainable environmental regulation in the oil and gas industry of SS can be best achieved.