Regulation and policy: International trends and issues

• Main Author: Griffin, W.S.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: 42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES;02 PETROLEUM ;03 NATURAL GAS; OFFSHORE PLATFORMS; DECOMMISSIONING; PUBLIC POLICY; OFFSHORE SITES; REGULATIONS; REMEDIAL ACTION; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; WASTE DISPOSAL; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/478100; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/478100

As offshore oil and gas resources become exhausted, the associated production platforms and facilities will be decommissioned. The world-wide oil and gas industry is strictly regulated by global, regional and national guidelines which have been developed by governments to find the most responsible framework to perform the decommissioning. In the summer of 1995, the Brent Spar incident brought uncertainty to decommissioning world-wide. In June of 1995, a moratorium prohibiting sea disposal within the North East Atlantic was imposed by the Oslo Commission, and an unsuccessful attempt was made in December of 1995 to impose a world-wide moratorium on sea disposal at the London Convention.