The Surinamese Production Sharing Contract: Legal, Fiscal, and Policy Foundations

This course explains how Suriname’s Production Sharing Contract (PSC) governs its offshore oil and gas sector. Based on the book The Surinamese Production Sharing Contract by Siegfried G. Kenswil LL.M., it explores the PSC’s legal origins, fiscal design, and stabilisation guarantees under State Decree 2018-52. Participants learn how royalty, cost recovery, profit oil, and taxation interact within Suriname’s hybrid public-private model. The course also compares Suriname’s regime with Indonesia, Ghana, and Norway, and outlines the path toward a codified Petroleum & PSC Act. Ideal for lawyers, policymakers, Staatsolie staff, and energy professionals seeking to understand Suriname’s petroleum framework.

Course•By Siegfried Kenswil