Offshore energy law : challenges and opportunities for renewables and hydrocarbons /

Examines the regulatory, environmental, financial, socio-legal, and safety aspects that shape offshore energy infrastructure projects and their operation.

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Další autoři: Herrera Anchustegui, Ignacio, 1984- (Editor), Taylor, Madeline (Editor), Pereira, Eduardo G., 1984- (Editor), Wifa, Eddy (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
Vydáno: Oxford : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025
Edice:Global energy law and policy ; volume 11
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Příbuzné jednotky:Tištěná verze:: Offshore energy law
Obsah:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • PART I: OFFSHORE ENERGY: FOSTERING ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
  • 1. Introduction to Offshore Energy Law: Challenges and Opportunities for Renewables and Hydrocarbons
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Part I - Offshore Energy: Fostering Environmental Stewardship and Community Collaboration
  • 3. Part II - Offshore Energy: Business and Financing
  • 4. Part III - Offshore Energy: Complex Infrastructure and Overarching Conclusions
  • 2. Multiple Use in the North Sea: Evolving Towards a New Legal Framework? - A Case Study Based on the Belgian and Dutch Examples
  • 1. Introduction, Aim and Structure
  • 2. From Integrated Maritime Policy to Maritime Spatial Planning and Coexistence
  • 3. Defining Multiple Use, Associated Concepts and the Growth and Importance of a Multiple Use Policy
  • 4. Different Types of Multiple Use According to Belgian Law in the Offshore Energy Zones
  • 5. Regulating Multiple Use in Energy Zones
  • 6. Conclusions and Recommendations
  • 3. Balancing Environmental Protection with Offshore Wind and Petroleum Development: Two Peas in a Pod?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Adverse Environmental and Ecological Impacts of Offshore Petroleum and Wind Energy Development and Conflicts with Other Sea Uses
  • 3. The UK Offshore Wind and Petroleum Planning, Licensing and Leasing
  • 4. Environmental Impact Assessment for Offshore Energy Development in the UK
  • 5. Reconciling Maximising Offshore Energy Resources and Protection of the Environment: Criticisms of the Current UK Regulatory Strategy
  • 6. Conclusion
  • 4. Avoiding (Offshore) Renewable and Critical Mineral-Based Resource Curse in Africa: The Role of a Continent-wide Legal Regime
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. (Offshore) Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals-Based Resource Curse in Africa and Energy Transition.
  • 3. The Role of Policy and Law in Avoiding a Renewable Energy and Critical Mineral-Based Resource Curse in Africa
  • 4. Conclusion and Recommendations
  • 5. Health and Safety Regulation in the United Kingdom's Offshore Hydrocarbon and Wind Energy Industries: Similarities, Differences, Reforms
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Offshore Oil and Gas: Evolution of the Health and Safety Regime
  • 3. Health and Safety in Offshore Wind
  • 4. Conclusion
  • 6. Beyond Social Licence to Operate: Charting 'Social Gaps' and the Social Contract in the Emerging Australian Offshore Wind Sector
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. From the Social Licence to Operate to the Social Contract: Addressing 'Social Gaps' in the Australian Offshore Energy Transition
  • 3. Addressing Democratic Deficit: Community Consultation and Empowerment
  • 4. Creating Legal Conditions: Citizens Cooperatives and Social Impact Assessments
  • 5. Proactive Place Protection: Marine Spatial Planning and Environmental Impact Assessments
  • 6. Conclusion
  • PART II: OFFSHORE ENERGY: BUSINESS AND FINANCING
  • 7. A Double-Edged Sword: Alignments and Conflicts in the International, Regional, and Domestic Governance of Offshore Energy Projects
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Interplay between International, Regional, and Domestic Laws Governing Offshore Energy Projects
  • 3. Incentives
  • 4. Conclusion
  • 8. Energy Transition and Tax Considerations for Oil, Gas, Wind Projects, and Carbon Taxation for Offshore Energy - Focus on the Brazilian Experience
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminary Aspects Regarding Energy Transition: World Context vis-à-vis the Brazilian Perspective
  • 3. How to Achieve the Energy Transition and the Role of Taxation Policies: Perspectives in Brazil
  • 4. Conclusions.
  • 9. Risk vs Rewards of Oil, Gas and Wind Investments: Dealing with Business, Finance and Economic Issues and how to Attract Investment in these Industries
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Risks of Investing in Oil and Gas
  • 3. Risks of Investing in Offshore Wind Energy
  • 4. Opportunities and Rewards of Investing in Oil and Gas
  • 5. Opportunities and Rewards of Investing in Offshore Wind
  • 6. Conclusions
  • 10. Building Local Capacity and Expertise via Local Content Rules and Transferring Skills and Knowledge between Offshore Developments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptualising Local Content
  • 3. Case Studies on the Implementation of LCRs in Building Capacity and Expertise between Offshore Development
  • 4. Building Capacity and Expertise Through Local Content Rules: Drawing Lessons for Policy and Practice Recommendations
  • 5. Conclusion
  • 11. The Prospects for Offshore Wind Investment in the Global South - Lessons from the Offshore Oil &amp
  • Gas Sector?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Offshore Oil and Gas Investment Structures
  • 3. The Importance of Contractual Stabilisation and the Role of Investor-State Agreements
  • 4. Merchant or Offtake Risk - The Analogy of Natural Gas
  • 5. Offshore Windfarm Investment in OECD Countries and China
  • Warnings for Wind Investment in the Global South
  • 6. Recommendations for Offshore Wind Investment in the Global South
  • 7. Generating Cash and Addressing Merchant Risk - Symbiosis of Offshore Wind and Industrial Offtakers
  • 8. Conclusions
  • 12. Offshore Energy Financing: Trends, Opportunities and Hurdles
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bankability
  • 3. Support Mechanisms and Offtake Arrangements
  • 4. Financing Structures
  • 5. Equity
  • 6. Security
  • 7. Financing Offshore Oil and Gas versus Offshore Wind Projects: Trends, Opportunities and Hurdles
  • 8. Conclusion.
  • PART III: OFFSHORE ENERGY: COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE AND OVERARCHING CONCLUSIONS
  • 13. From a Mature Offshore Oil and Gas Sector to an Embryonic Alternative Energy Sector: The US Experience
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. History of US Offshore Energy Production
  • 3. Legal Framework and Agencies
  • 4. Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing
  • 5. Offshore Wind Energy
  • 6. Carbon Sequestration
  • 7. Floating Solar, Tidal, and Wave Energy
  • 8. Ocean Thermal Energy
  • 9. Challenges to Offshore Energy Development
  • 10. Conclusions
  • 14. Coupling of Petroleum, Offshore Wind, and CCS: Scopes, Interfaces, and Coordination of Licensing Regimes - The Norwegian Experience
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Overview of Norwegian Licensing Regimes for Petroleum Activities, CCS and Offshore Wind
  • 3. Offshore Wind as Petroleum Activity
  • 4. CCS as Petroleum Activity
  • 5. Repurposing of Decommissioned Petroleum Facilities for Renewable Energy Production or CCS
  • 15. Three Parts to the New Offshore Economy: Integrating Offshore Wind Energy with Hydrogen Electrolysis on Repurposed Oil and Gas Installations
  • 1. Introduction and Context
  • 2. Rationale for Integrated Offshore Hydrogen Production
  • 3. Part I: Towards Regulatory Certainty to Build-Out an Offshore Wind Energy Industry
  • 4. Part II: Decommissioning and the Idea of Repurposing Existing Offshore Oil and Gas Infrastructure for Offshore Hydrogen Production
  • 5. Part III: Aligning the Complexities from Integrating Offshore Wind with Hydrogen Electrolysis on Repurposed Offshore Oil and Gas Installations
  • 6. Conclusions
  • 16. Circular Economy in the Decommissioning of Oil and Gas Platforms: Costs, Legislation, and Importance for Energy Transition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Where Do We Stand in Petroleum Decommissioning: Jurisdiction, Numbers, Costs and Experiences?
  • 3. Synergies
  • 4. Recommendations and Conclusion.
  • 17. Joint Development in the Energy Transition: From Joint Petroleum Zones to Joint CO Storage Zones
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Offshore Carbon Capture and Storage and the Energy Transition
  • 3. Joint (Petroleum) Development in State Practice
  • 4. From Joint Petroleum Zones to Joint CO2 Storage Zones
  • 5. Conclusion
  • 18. On the Future of Offshore Energy
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Part I - Offshore Energy: Fostering Environmental Stewardship and Community Collaboration
  • 3. Part II - Offshore Energy: Business and Financing
  • 4. Part III - Offshore Energy: Complex Infrastructure and Overarching Conclusions
  • 5. Final Words
  • Index.