Assessing the Impact of the Brent Spar Incident on the Decommissioning Regime in the North East Atlantic
The advent of deep-water oil exploration has increased concern for the impact of oil activities on marine environment, especially regarding disused or decommissioned facilities offshore. Before the Brent Spar incident, which galvanised international efforts to protect the environment, international...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:5c7fe2d1553b4a3d96837eb5ad8b69e6 2023-05-15T17:38:24+02:00 Assessing the Impact of the Brent Spar Incident on the Decommissioning Regime in the North East Atlantic Ngozi Ole Hemen Philip Faga 2017-08-01 https://doi.org/10.20956/halrev.v3i2.1075 https://doaj.org/article/5c7fe2d1553b4a3d96837eb5ad8b69e6 en other eng Hasanuddin University 2442-9880 2442-9899 doi:10.20956/halrev.v3i2.1075 https://doaj.org/article/5c7fe2d1553b4a3d96837eb5ad8b69e6 undefined Hasanuddin Law Review, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 141-147 (2017) Brent Convention Decommissioning Facility International Law Oil droit hist Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.20956/halrev.v3i2.1075 2023-01-22T19:36:19Z The advent of deep-water oil exploration has increased concern for the impact of oil activities on marine environment, especially regarding disused or decommissioned facilities offshore. Before the Brent Spar incident, which galvanised international efforts to protect the environment, international and regional legal instruments on decommissioning of offshore oil installations was weak and ineffective in protecting the environment from the effect of disused facilities. This paper examined the efforts made by international and regional actors to remedy the lapses of the pre-Brent Spar legal instruments on decommissioning of offshore oil facilities, especially regarding the new provisions on environmental protection. The paper concluded that the supplementary legal instruments made post-Brent Spar have not radically transformed the legal regime on decommissioning of offshore oil facilities because contracting states still reserve the discretion to permit abandonment of disused facilities. Article in Journal/Newspaper North East Atlantic Unknown Hasanuddin Law Review 3 2 141 |
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The advent of deep-water oil exploration has increased concern for the impact of oil activities on marine environment, especially regarding disused or decommissioned facilities offshore. Before the Brent Spar incident, which galvanised international efforts to protect the environment, international and regional legal instruments on decommissioning of offshore oil installations was weak and ineffective in protecting the environment from the effect of disused facilities. This paper examined the efforts made by international and regional actors to remedy the lapses of the pre-Brent Spar legal instruments on decommissioning of offshore oil facilities, especially regarding the new provisions on environmental protection. The paper concluded that the supplementary legal instruments made post-Brent Spar have not radically transformed the legal regime on decommissioning of offshore oil facilities because contracting states still reserve the discretion to permit abandonment of disused facilities. |
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Assessing the Impact of the Brent Spar Incident on the Decommissioning Regime in the North East Atlantic |
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