Offshore Energy Law : Challenges and Opportunities for Renewables and Hydrocarbons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anchustegui, Ignacio Herrera, editor.

Pereira, Eduardo G, editor.

Taylor, Madeline, editor.

Wifa, Eddy, editor.

Series:

Global Energy Law and Policy.

Global Energy Law and Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy conservation--Law and legislation.

Energy conservation.

Energy policy.

Renewable Energy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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

Contents:

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?

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

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

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

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

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

2. Interplay between International, Regional, and Domestic Laws Governing Offshore Energy Projects

3. Incentives

8. Energy Transition and Tax Considerations for Oil, Gas, Wind Projects, and Carbon Taxation for Offshore Energy - Focus on the Brazilian Experience

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

16. Circular Economy in the Decommissioning of Oil and Gas Platforms: Costs, Legislation, and Importance for Energy Transition

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

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

18. On the Future of Offshore Energy

5. Final Words

Index.

ISBN:

1-5099-6441-X

1-5099-6442-8

1-5099-6440-1

OCLC:

1515461777