Offshore Energy Law

This book examines the regulatory, environmental, financial, socio-legal, and safety aspects that shape offshore energy infrastructure projects and their operation. The marine environment holds vast resources to provide energy solutions for humankind. The sustainable development of such offshore energy resources is one of the most pressing challenges posed by the energy transition. Whereas offshore hydrocarbons have been explored and extracted for more than a century, the offshore renewable industry is rapidly expanding, with lawmakers increasingly looking to the oceans for significant energy development. Offshore spaces now amalgamate mature and emerging energy industries, creating a pressing need to identify synergies and regulatory challenges. However, and despite the pivotal role offshore energy is to play in the future, the interaction, synergies and conflicts arising between these regulatory, socio-legal, environmental and financial dimensions of offshore energy are often not discussed within the energy law scholarship. This book aims to fill this evident gap in existing energy law research to distil critical legal lessons from traditional offshore energy sectors to encourage best practice regulation of offshore energy net zero industries. Offshore Energy Law provides a functional analysis that covers the life cycle of offshore energy developments, including renewable and hydrocarbons, within the broader context of the energy crisis and energy transition debates. Written and edited by leading global offshore energy experts, the book brings together a global and sectoral comparative perspective to central offshore energy topics such as licensing, socio-legal challenges and opportunities, safety and ecological governance, and the use of marine/maritime spatial planning.>

Auteur
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway. Madeline Taylor is Associate Professor of Energy Law and Director of Research Training at Macquarie Law School, Co-Lead at Transforming Energy Markets Research Centre, and Australian Research Council Industry Fellow.

Her award-winning research focuses on navigating complex energy regulatory systems to develop legal instruments that support the effective, sustainable, and justice-driven scaling of innovative energy technologies. She has published extensively in leading journals including Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Q1, Impact Factor 15.9, Cite Score 26.3), Energy Policy (Q1, Impact Factor 9, Cite Score 15.2), and Energy Economics (Q1, Impact Factor 14.7, Cite Score 14.7). Her ARC ECR Industry Fellowship (2025 2028). Her ARC ECR Industry Fellowship focuses on designing a solar energy legal framework to meet Australia's renewable energy goals, advance agrivoltaics adoption, and bolster decarbonisation and agricultural resilience. Eduardo G Pereira is Professor at the Siberian Federal University and Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.Eddy Wifa is Lecturer in Energy Law at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Contenu
Part I - Offshore Energy: Fostering Environmental Stewardship and Community Collaboration 1. Introduction to the Offshore Energy Law: Challenges and Opportunities for Renewables and Hydrocarbons, Madeline Taylor (Macquarie University, Australia), Eddy Wifa (University of Aberdeen, UK), Eduardo G Pereira (University of São Paulo, Brazil), and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (University of Bergen, Norway) 2. Multiple Use in the North Sea: Evolving Towards a New Legal Framework? - A Case Study Based on the Belgian and Dutch Examples, Angelo Goethals (University of Ghent, Belgium), Frank Maes (University of Ghent, Belgium), and Frederik Vandendriessche (University of Ghent, Belgium) 3. Balancing Environmental Protection with Offshore Wind and Petroleum Development Two Peas in a Pod? Eddy Wifa (University of Aberdeen, UK), Daria Shapovalova (University of Aberdeen, UK), and Pedi Obani (University of Bradford, UK) 4. Avoiding (Offshore) Renewable and Critical Mineral-Based Resource Curse in Africa: The Role of Continent-wide Legal Regime, Solomon N Obulor (City of Edinburgh Council, UK), Joy A Debski (Robert Gordon University, UK), and Nnennaya J Nwali (University of Aberdeen, UK) 5. Health and Safety Regulation in the United Kingdom's Offshore Hydrocarbon and Wind Energy Industries: Similarities, Differences, Reforms, John Paterson (University of Aberdeen, UK) and Eddy Wifa (University of Aberdeen, UK) 6. Beyond Social Licence to Operate: Charting 'Social Gaps' and the Social Contract in the Emerging Australian Offshore Wind Sector, Madeline Taylor (Macquarie University, Australia) 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, Catalin-Gabriel Stanescu (University of Southern Denmark, UK) and Cristian Rubanovici (Poul Schmith / Kammeradvokaten, Denmark) 8. Energy Transition and Tax Considerations for Oil, Gas, Wind Projects and Carbon Taxation for Offshore EnergyFocus on Brazilian experience, Diana Rodrigues Prado de Castro (Tauil & Chequer, Brazil) 9. Risk vs Rewards between Oil, Gas and Wind Investments: Dealing with Business, Finance and Economic Issues and How to Attract Invest in these Industries, João Oliveira (BP, UK) 10. Building Local Capacity and Expertise via Local Content Rules and Transferring Skills and Knowledge between Offshore Developments, Elena I Athwal (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar), Eduardo G Pereira (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Opeyemi Omotuyi, and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (University of Bergen, Norway) 11. The Prospects for Offshore Wind Investment in the Global South Lessons from the Offshore Oil & Gas Sector? Reg Fowler (Calyx Global Inc., UK) 12. Offshore Energy Financing: Trends, Opportunities and Hurdles, Cameron Kelly (Australian Renewable Energy Agency) 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, Keith B Hall (Louisiana State University, USA) 14. Coupling of Petroleum, Offshore Wind, and CCS: Scopes, Interfaces, and Coordination of Licensing Regimes The Norwegian Experience, Knut Høivik (University of Bergen, Norway), Heidi Eikenes Seglem (Equinor ASA, Norway), Sondre Dyrland (University of Oslo, Norway), and Camilla Grytten (Schjødt AS, Norway) 15. Three Parts to the New Offshore Economy: Integrating Offshore Wind Energy with Hydrogen Electrolysis on Repurposed Oil and Gas Installations, Rudiger Tscherning (University of Calgary, Canada) 16. Circular Economy in the Decommissioning of Oil and Gas Platforms: Costs, Legislation, and Importance for Energy Transition, Eduardo G Pereira (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Ana Carolina Marins de Carvalho (Mattos Filho Advogados, Brazil), and Aurelia Reid (Griffin Chambers, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago) 17. Joint Development in the Energy Transition: From Joint Petroleum Zones to Joint CO2 Storage Zones, Constantinos Yiallourides (Macquarie University, Australia) 18. On the Future of Offshore Energy, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui (University of Bergen, Norway), Eduardo G Pereira (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Eddy Wifa (University of Aberdeen, UK), and Madeline Taylor (Macquarie University, Australia)