CHAPTER 9. Civil Liability for Exploration and Exploitation of Offshore Oil and Gas in the Arctic: the situation in the Barents Sea

• Main Author: Svendsen, Kristoffer
• Other Authors: The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø, Norway (UiT), The work leading to this invention has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007/2013) / ERC Grant agreement No. 340770, Patrick Chaumette, European Project: n°340770,Human Sea
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Civil Liability; Exploration; Exploitation; Offshore; Oil; Gas; Arctic; Barents Sea; Responsabilité civile; pétrole; gaz; Arctique; mer de Barents; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; [SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law; Arctique*; Mer de Barents
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01983712; https://hal.science/hal-01983712/document; https://hal.science/hal-01983712/file/Cap.%209%20%28280618%29%20def.pdf

International audience Abstract: This chapter shows that there is an inconsistency in the enforcement of compensation claims from Russian injured parties, injured on the Russian side of the Norwegian-Russian sea border by a Norwegian oil company on the Norwegian side of the sea border. This inconsistency puts Russian injured parties in an position where Russian injured parties in an position where Russian injured partiesthey cannot legally enforce compensation claims against Norwegian oil companies (harm-doers) outside of the Russian jurisdiction. Résumé : Ce chapitre montre qu'il y a une incohérence dans l'exécution des demandes d'indemnisation des parties lésées russes, victimes du côté russe de la frontière maritime norvégienne-russe par une compagnie pétrolière norvégienne du côté norvégien de la frontière maritime. Cette incohérence place les parties lésées russes dans une situation où elles ne peuvent légalement faire valoir des demandes d'indemnisation contre les compagnies pétrolières norvégiennes (parties responsables) en dehors de la juridiction russe.