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Law No. 84/2018 - Transparency in the Petroleum Sector

Establishes transparency and disclosure duties for petroleum-sector institutions and participants.

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Official recordLaw No. 84/2018 - Transparency in the Petroleum Sector
Legal characterSector-wide transparency law
Current readingOperative
Scope and applicability

Transparency, integrity and disclosure across the petroleum value chain.

Why it matters

It supplies an accountability layer for licensing, contracts, revenues and sector governance.

Core provisions

The operative ideas to understand before reading the full text.

  1. 01

    Applies transparency duties across the petroleum value chain.

  2. 02

    Extends from exploration through development, production and decommissioning.

  3. 03

    Adds an accountability layer to licensing, contracts, revenues and institutional conduct.

Engineering lens

  • Makes project, environmental and operational records part of accountable sector governance.
  • Requires document controls that support publication without compromising protected information.

Economic and investment lens

  • Improves scrutiny of awards, contracts, ownership and state revenues.
  • Reduces information asymmetry but depends on implementing disclosure practice.

From text to operation

Implementation gates

These conditions must be evidenced before treating the instrument as operational for a project, tariff or market transaction.

  1. 1Public registers and disclosure procedures
  2. 2Conflict-of-interest and anti-corruption controls
  3. 3Accessible contract and revenue information

Documented relationships

  • This instrument adds disclosure duties OPR Law
  • This instrument reinforces public ownership disclosure through Petroleum Register

Primary sources

  1. Legislative Framework Lebanese Petroleum Administration · Publication date not stated · English · Accessed 16 August 2026Official consolidated overview; page has no stated publication date.
  2. Petroleum Register - legal framework and public records Lebanese Petroleum Administration · Publication date not stated · Arabic · Accessed 16 August 2026Official register created under Law 132/2010 and regulated by Decree 9471/2022.