Auteurs : Derrouis Salima . Lahlou Chérif .
The inquiry starts from a practical question: can a petroleum agreement show how public resource governance connects with governance inside petroleum companies? A seven-part grid examines institu-tions, contract design, fiscal rules, accounting, corporate governance, distribution and feedback. Alge-ria is the focal case; fifteen producing countries widen the documentary comparison from 1963 to 2026. Eight cases contain sufficient evidence for exploratory classification and dimension-by-dimension coding on a 0–3 ordinal scale. The purposive selection captures institutional and contractual variety, not statistical representativeness. The claim remains limited: the agreement is a documentary lens for tracing sovereignty, corporate governance and petroleum-rent distribution.
systemic articulation of governance ; petroleum agreement ; assessment grid ; petroleum taxation ; rent sharing