Study on American oil and gas resources regulatory methods and benefited from US experience

By the study on the regulatory practices of US Bureau of Land and the Texas Railroad Commission, it’s summarized of the main characteristics of supervision regulatory of oil and gas resources in US:to clearly found oil-gas regulatory evidence and standards by formulating special oil-gas regulations and laws; to has relatively independent, law enforcement, and professional regulatory institutions; to implement the whole process regulatory during operations of exploration procedure; to be highly socialization regulated.Based on the actual situation of China, and learning the successful experience of American oil-gas regulatory, it’s proposed that we should study and establish the operations standards of oil and gas exploration and development; study the promulgation oil and gas resources supervision procedures and operational guidelines; strengthen the regulation of exploration process after the mining right approval; strengthen oil-gas resources information disclosure and promote social supervision.