In This Issue:

- TRANSACTIONAL:

- Transactions/Russia: Russia: Expanding Opportunities for Foreign Investment in Major Oil and Gas Deposits

- Corporate/London: Focus on Shale Gas in the UK: Current Developments and Regulatory Considerations

- Project Development/Middle East Finance: Project Bonds - An Option For Project Finance in the Middle East?

- Transactions/Latin America Practice: The Impact of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Sanctions on PDVSA

- REGULATORY:

- Environmental: EPA Releases Final Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan

- Government Relations/Latin America Practice: Evolving Energy Relations between the United States and Brazil: Actions and Expectations from the Presidential Visits

- DISPUTE RESOLUTION:

- International Arbitration: Energy Trading Disputes: Accompanying a Revolution

- In The News:

- European Commission Issues Guidance on How to Comply with EU Competition Law

- Excerpt from - Transactions/Russia: Russia: Expanding Opportunities for Foreign Investment in Major Oil and Gas Deposits:

Amendments to Russia’s Strategic Investment Law take effect in mid-December and should ease some of the current restrictions on foreign investment in the oil and gas superpower...