The Preservation of Petroleum Resources (Abu Dhabi, Law No. 8, 1978) in English

Law No. 8 of 1978 concerns the preservation of petroleum resources in Abu Dhabi. It forms part of the emirate petroleum legislation of the 1970s — the decade in which Abu Dhabi took control of its oil industry — and addresses the conservation and proper exploitation of petroleum, obligations that sit alongside the concession agreements and the ADNOC framework.

The usual readers are energy and regulatory lawyers advising on Abu Dhabi upstream operations, where conservation obligations feed into field development decisions, and researchers reconstructing the emirate petroleum law framework as it developed between the first concessions and the modern regulatory structure.