To provide for orderly development of petroleum resources; to provide for equitable access to, and sustainable development of, the nation's petroleum resources; to provide for active State and black persons' participation in the development of the nation's petroleum resources; to provide for a petroleum right that integrates the right to explore and to produce; to provide for the facilitation of acquisition of petroleum geo-technical data; to provide for a controlled application system through licensing rounds; to create an enabling environment for the acceleration of exploration and production of the nation's petroleum resources; to provide for third party access to upstream petroleum infrastructure; to provide for a petroleum right holder to sell a percentage of petroleum to the State for strategic stocks requirements; to designate a state-owned company as an entity responsible for managing the State's carried interest in petroleum rights; to provide for the advancement of national developmental imperatives by the state-owned company through the development of petroleum resources; to provide for the holder of a petroleum right to retain its empowerment status after the exit of black persons under circumscribed circumstances; to provide for local content as a development strategy to enable skills development, local recruitment and national participation through supply of goods and services; to designate the Petroleum Agency of South Africa as the regulatory authority for the upstream petroleum sector; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Bill