2000: Conference Proceedings
Articles

Decommissioning of Offshore Structures

Published 2000-08-05

Keywords

  • offshore structures,
  • decommissioning offshore structures,
  • offshore oil platforms,
  • decommissioning regime,
  • UNCLOS 1982,
  • London Dumping Convention 1972,
  • Oslo Paris Convention on Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic 1992 (OSPAR),
  • dumping,
  • Petroleum Act 1998 (UK),
  • security,
  • resource exploration,
  • Protocol to the Dumping Convention 1996,
  • Health and Safety in Employment (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 1999 (NZ),
  • UK Continental Shelf
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Abstract

This paper contains the slides for Teagle's presentation on the Decommissioning of Offshore Installations. Teagle provides an overview of recent legal developments in respect of this topic, with particular reference to the UKCS (UK Continental Shelf), and discusses the relevance of the UK regime to the New Zealand situation.