Know your JOA: top 10 tips for anxious partners in upstream oil and gas joint ventures
A year dominated by the story of low oil prices is drawing to a close amid predictions that the pressures […]
Oil and Gas
Published at last – a winning strategy for the UK Continental Shelf?
Finally, we have the missing piece of the jigsaw. The current reforms to the UK’s regulatory regime for the offshore […]
The Offshore Safety Directive (6) – offshore operatorship
On 19 July 2015, a raft of legislative amendments and new regulations came into force implementing the Offshore Safety Directive […]
Global perspectives on the energy sector
What is the future for traditional power utilities? What can Europe learn from the US experience of capacity markets? What […]
This is not another article about Macondo: no, I want to know why people even bother with Gross Negligence in Joint Operating Agreements?
Judge Barbier decided that BP was grossly negligent in relation to the blowout, explosion and fire abroad the Deepwater Horizon […]
UK fracking: the pursuit of safety
Further changes to the Infrastructure Bill have now addressed the potential problems for the UK unconventionals industry introduced by a […]
Oil Price Crash (1): Options for North Sea oil and gas: shut-ins and taxation relief
Companies involved in oil and gas activities globally are tightening their belts. The decline in the price of Brent crude […]
UK Parliament votes against moratorium on fracking – but there may be a catch
Perhaps unsurprisingly, yesterday afternoon’s House of Commons debate on the Infrastructure Bill did not result in the introduction of the […]
Clearing the way for UK shale (and deep geothermal) exploitation: Infrastructure Bill Update (2)
In the previous post we looked at the new right to exploit deep-level land for petroleum extraction and deep geothermal projects that […]
Clearing the way for UK shale (and deep geothermal) exploitation: Infrastructure Bill Update (1)
A new stage in the UK Government’s campaign to remove potential obstacles in the way of shale gas developments was […]
A strategy for the UK North Sea oil and gas industry: work in progress
Following the recommendations of the Wood Review of the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry, and an initial debate in […]
The Offshore Safety Directive (5) – Government consultations
On 28 July 2014, the Government launched two consultations in parallel on the implementation of the Offshore Safety Directive (the […]