scholarly journals Legal form and independence of specialist regulators: the case of the Oil and Gas authority

Amicus Curiae ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Terence Daintith
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Law And Legislation

In this paper based on a presentation given at an IALS lunchtime seminar, Professorial Fellow and former Director of the Institute Terence Daintith explores the form, governance and remit of the Oil and Gas authority. As this legal form had never before been used for a specialist regulator in the UK, he suggests it is worth asking: why this was done; what government companies normally do; what were the closest precedents; what were the effects of the choice in relation to the control, accountability, and independence of the regulator; and what might be the implications for the future.   Index keywords: Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum law and legislation, Oil and Gas Authority, United Kingdom

Initiatives in UK Offshore Decommissioning Following the Wood Review: Applicability for Decommissioning in Norway

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rune Vikane ◽  
Jon Tømmerås Selvik ◽  
Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Cost Estimates ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Gas Recovery ◽  
The Uk

Abstract The 2014 Wood Review is a report reviewing UK offshore oil and gas recovery and its regulation, led by Sir Ian Wood. The report identifies and addresses key challenges in the UK petroleum industry, among them the lack of a strong regulatory body and a decommissioning strategy. The UK petroleum industry is mature, and Norway may benefit from UK's experiences in decommissioning. The article investigates the applicability of the Wood Review recommendations for decommissioning in Norway. The analysis of the recommendations in the Wood Review is carried out by a SWOT-analysis of the general recommendations with a high potential impact on decommissioning as well as the five recommendations specific to decommissioning. The recommendations in the Wood Review were broadly accepted by UK authorities and formed the basis for numerous initiatives aimed at improving policies and practices in UK decommissioning. The key initiatives are presented to illustrate how the Wood Review recommendations has been interpreted. A summary of the key differences between the petroleum industries and the regulatory authorities in Norway and the UK is provided for background. Decommissioning in Norway face similar challenges to those identified in the Wood Review. The analysis indicates that several of the UK initiatives following the recommendations in the Wood Review has the potential of improving decommissioning in Norway. Differences in regulatory regimes between the regions may complicate the implementation of some of the initiatives following the Wood Review in Norway. In most cases only minor changes to regulations and/or practices are required. Recent UK initiatives with a high impact on decommissioning include increased focus on sharing of information and lessons learned, increased collaboration, the development of a decommissioning strategy, benchmarking of decommissioning cost estimates for all projects and the development and publishing of annual UK decommissioning cost estimates. There are indications that the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) are falling behind their UK counterparts in key areas. Norway has limited experience with decommissioning, and scrupulous analysis of lessons learned in other regions is essential. Decommissioning of Norwegian offshore infrastructure is a major undertaking and even minor improvements may have a substantial impact on personnel risk, risk to the environment or the total decommissioning expenditure. The Norwegian regulatory regime has been an integral part of the Norwegian petroleum industry's success in previous decades, and changes to the regime require careful deliberation. The recent implementation of initiatives aimed at improving decommissioning regulations and practices in the UK represents a unique learning opportunity for Norwegian authorities. The analysis suggest that Norway may benefit from adopting some of the UK initiatives following the Wood Review recommendations.

scholarly journals Paying for Our Periods: The Campaign to Tackle Period Poverty and End the Tampon Tax in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. Only
Author(s):  
Laura Agyropulo Coryton ◽  
Lucy Marie Russell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Movements ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Activist Movements ◽  
Law Making ◽  
The Way

Tampon tax and period poverty activist movements are growing in tandem worldwide. These movements are reshaping the way we think about menstruation and what governments can do to tackle period-based injustices. Through this Essay, two United Kingdom (UK) period activists will explore how these UK movements were erected, how they interact with the global movements, and how Brexit has impacted UK menstruation activism and law-making. Finally, they will look ahead to discuss what they believe the future of period activism might look like.

scholarly journals Chemotherapy: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines

2016 ◽  
Vol 130 (S2) ◽  
pp. S71-S74 ◽  
Author(s):  
C G Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck Cancer ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Neck Cancer ◽  
Cancer Management ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThis is the official guideline endorsed by the specialty associations involved in the care of head and neck cancer patients in the UK. This paper summarises the role of chemotherapy in head and neck cancer management, recent advances and what the future holds for this modality.

25 years of UK North Sea exploration

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The North ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Shallow Wells ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Gas Fields

Any attempt to summarize 25 years of exploration for petroleum in the UK sector of the North Sea must be a daunting task. The outcome, in terms of the oil and gas fields discovered, is the subject of this volume. This introduction will attempt to outline, very briefly, some of the ups and downs of the exploration history which has led the industry to where it stands today, 25 years on (Fig. 1).When the author was at university in the early 1950s the very idea the the United Kingdom would be likely to become a significant, let alone major world producer of petroleum would have been viewed as utterly ridiculousIt is true that oil and gas indications had been encountered in wells and mines in such disparate areas as sussex, the west Midlands and the Midland Valley of Scotland and as seepages in Dorset, Lancashire and West Lothian, but these had been thoroughly investigated without the discovery of any economically significant oil or gas fields. Indeed, the only economic production at that time came from BP's small east Midlands fields based on Eakring where the first discovery had been made in 1939The first Serious attempt to explore for oil in the United Kingdom was initiated in 1918 for strategic reasons, when 11 relatively shallow wells were drilled on anticlinal features in various parts of the country. of these only one, Hardstoft-1 in Derbyshire, discovered producible oil, but attempts to follow up the discovery were unsuccessful.Exploration then

On: THE ROLE OF THE SURFACE ELECTRICAL METHODS OF GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY

Geophysics ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-396
Author(s):  
S. H. Yungul
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Geophysical Prospecting ◽  
Eastern Hemisphere ◽  
The Future ◽  
Major Break ◽  
Electrical Methods ◽  
The U.S

Those who have broad backgrounds in exploration geophysics have been saying that the electrical methods in general could be profitably employed by the petroleum industry, that they promise major break‐throughs in the future, and that it is regrettable that we are not making use of them in the U.S. The surface electrical activity for petroleum in the U.S. is so small that it does not make its way into the statistics. It is appreciable in the eastern hemisphere. Outside the USSR, in the eastern hemisphere, the electrical activity in 1958 and 1959 was of the order of 150 crew months per year (The Oil and Gas Journal, 1959; Patrick, 1960).

scholarly journals Konsekwencje brexitu w dziedzinie prawa prywatnego międzynarodowego

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-158
Author(s):  
Sylwia Majkowska-Szulc
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Member State ◽  
International Law ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Brexit is a unique phenomenon as no Member State has ever expressed the will to leave the European Union. Never before had the in-depth impact of a Member State withdrawal been analysed. The issue has started to be analysed after the referendum in which the British voted in favour of leaving the European Union. The topic of the potential consequences of Brexit in the field of private international law concerns, inter alia, national jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters, mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments, specific procedures of EU uniform law, judicial cooperation between Member States or the functioning of the e-Justice Portal and dynamic forms. Before a given Member State withdraws from the EU, interested parties should have been informed, inter alia, of how pending proceedings will be conducted starting with the withdrawal day, what about proceedings initiated at the date of withdrawal or later on, and what about the rulings of the courts of the applicant state covered by the exequatur procedure before the withdrawal. Therefore, the primary purpose of the article is to determine the framework for the future relationship between the EU and the UK in the field of private international law. An additional aim of this paper is to better prepare natural and legal persons for the new post-Brexit reality. European integration has brought Europe peace and prosperity and enabled unprecedented cooperation in all areas of common interest. Following the withdrawal decision, the state and its citizens cease to benefit from the acquis communautaire. In fact, the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020. As far as private international law is concerned, the United Kingdom has become a third country. Subsequently, on 1 February 2020 a transition period has started and it aims to provide more time for citizens and businesses to adapt. The negotiations on the future partnership between the EU and the UK has started in March 2020, but they were postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union is sometimes compared to love that has passed away, but former lovers must continue to meet from time to time to manage certain common affaires. The analysis of the topic leads to the conclusion that, in fact, Brexit is a unique phenomenon that has no added value.

scholarly journals About this title

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. NP-NP ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Moray Firth ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration And Production ◽  
Gas Fields

The United Kingdom Oil and Gas Fields has been produced to commemorate the first 25 years of hydrocarbon exploration and production in the United Kingdom North Sea. The result of this exploration has produced many benefits for the UK, its government and industry but above all for geologists and geophysicists, Articles on the 64 oil and gas fields discovered on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf are given in a standardized layout to provide easy to use databook for the petroleum geologist and geophysicist. The producing oil and gas fields have been arranged into:the Viking Graben, the Central Graben and Moray Firth, the Southern Gas Basin and Morecambe Basin. Also included are two introductory articles, the first sets the fields in a historical perspect!ve and the second places them in a stratigraphic framework.

Brexit and the Future of the European Union

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Fabbrini
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Member States ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This book examines how the European Union has changed during Brexit and because of Brexit, while also reflecting on the developments of the EU besides Brexit and beyond Brexit. It argues that the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU—the first ever case of disintegration since the start of the European integration process—creates an urgent need to reform the EU. In fact, while the EU institutions and its Member States have remained united in their negotiations vis-à-vis the UK, Brexit has created transitional problems for the EU, and exposed other serious fissures in its system of governance which need to be addressed moving forward. As the EU goes through another major crisis in the form of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the case for increasing the effectiveness and the legitimacy of the EU grows stronger. In this context, the book analyses the plan to establish a Conference on the Future of Europe, considering its precedents and discussing its prospects.

scholarly journals Continuity, Convergence and Change in Environmental Law and Governance in Scotland – an Assessment of Recent Developments and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-341
Author(s):  
James Harrison
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

There was a concern following the 2016 Brexit referendum that environmental standards in the United Kingdom (UK) may be lowered unless action was taken to address gaps in environmental governance that would be caused by leaving the European Union (EU). Debates over the nature of those gaps and how to fill them have continued over the years since the referendum and it is only recently that the emerging picture of post-Brexit environmental governance in Scotland has been revealed, allowing a preliminary study of the future for environmental standards in the jurisdiction. This article aims to provide an overview and analysis of recent legal developments which are likely to influence the future of environmental law in Scotland, including the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the United Kingdom Internal Market Act, the incorporation of environmental principles into Scots law, new powers to align Scottish environmental standards with EU law, and the new institutional framework to oversee compliance with environmental law in Scotland. The article considers the impact that these new arrangements will have on the development of Scottish environmental law and in particular the implications for Scottish institutions in deciding whether to promote ongoing continuity with EU law, promote convergence with other parts of the UK, or strike out on their own path of environmental law reform.

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