Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice & Emerging Trends
Greg Gordon, John Paterson, and Emre Usenmez
Abstract
This highly successful bookbrings together academic and practicing lawyers to consider the key legalissues facing the United Kingdom as it becomes a progressively more mature hydrocarbon province. The book, now in its second edition, considers and analyses the petroleum licence and fiscal regime. It also discusses the offshore oil industry’s dedicated regulatory regime (health and safety and environmental regulation are both considered, alongside the decommissioning regime on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf) as well as considering the key commercial and contractual issues facing the indus ... More
This highly successful bookbrings together academic and practicing lawyers to consider the key legalissues facing the United Kingdom as it becomes a progressively more mature hydrocarbon province. The book, now in its second edition, considers and analyses the petroleum licence and fiscal regime. It also discusses the offshore oil industry’s dedicated regulatory regime (health and safety and environmental regulation are both considered, alongside the decommissioning regime on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf) as well as considering the key commercial and contractual issues facing the industry after forty years of oil and gas production on the UKCS.
Keywords:
Oil,
Gas,
Oil and Gas Law,
Regulation,
Licensing,
Offshore Health and Safety,
United Kingdom Continental Shelf (“UKCS”),
Joint Operating Agreement (JOA),
Mutual Indemnities
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781845861018 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2015 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781845861018.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Greg Gordon, editor
University of Aberdeen
John Paterson, editor
University of Aberdeen
Emre Usenmez, editor
University of Aberdeen
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