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After weathering the storm that was the price collapse of 2014, the oil industry has again been hit in recent months by two new blows almost simultaneously: oversupply (caused by the failure of negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Russia to agree on production cuts and the aggressive response of the…
This blog post builds on Prof Tina Soliman Hunter's post titled “Shell decommissioning of the Brent Platform - haven’t we been here before?” (18 April 2017). I suggest that it might be helpful to read that post prior to reading this one.
If we thought the Brent Spar incident in…
As a current PhD student, here at the School of Law, I am in the process of completing my PhD on the U.K Health, Safety and Environmental Risk Governance Regime for Offshore Marine Renewables. My recent blog post expands on aspects of my thesis, an earlier version of which…
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
I had been very eagerly anticipating the 7th Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructures at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR #CRI18) for weeks. On the day of departure, that…
Crofting is a quirky type of landholding that exists in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Born out of 19th century land politics and indeed land agitation, the crofting system is now regulated by statute, namely the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 and some later amending legislation. The system is regulated…
In February 2017 Shell lodged plans to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) to undertake the decommissioning of offshore petroleum installations in the Brent Field, located in the North Sea, north east of the Shetland Islands. The Brent field is an iconic field, having commenced production in…
This is a guest post by Professor Andrew Serdy of the The Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Southampton. It builds on a guest lecture he gave to the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. Robert Veal, Senior Research Assistant at the Institute of Maritime Law, contributed to…
This post is about a fundamental problem for offshore wind energy. A critical evaluation of offshore wind energy development through its life cycle reveals that there are significant health and safety risks to both workers and other users of the marine space, as shall be explained below. Therefore the offshore…
Today some of us will go to the movies. A few of us will see the new action thriller called Deepwater Horizon. The movie is the ultimate action thriller, starring Mark Wahlberg as the action hero. However it is no Hollywood tale; rather it is a real-life story, and one…
The last few years has seen the British public turn its attention to the alleged evils of shale gas extraction in the countryside. Community concerns include the contamination of ground water, the impact of the activity on the local environment, inability of shale gas extraction and agriculture to coexist, and…
