Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (Australia) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Compliance Measures) Act 2013 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Compliance Measures) Act 2013 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Compliance Measures) Act 2013 (Australia) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Act 2003 (Australia) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section
This paper traces the development of the Australian offshore petroleum legislative framework, which is comprised of Commonwealth and State acts, regulations and administrative guidelines. First this paper looks at how the present arrangements have been arrived at, touching on major developments including the Offshore Petroleum Agreement of 1967 and the Offshore Constitutional Settlement of 1979, through to recent reforms to the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 (Cth) (OPGGS Act), with a focus on the Montara Commission of Inquiry and its Report. This paper also examines the interplay between the States and Commonwealth in implementing the legislative framework, including the mirror legislation arrangements. The paper focuses on the introduction of a new national regulator, to take effect from 1 January 2012. This entity will replace, in part, the Designated Authorities established under the OPGGS Act and will include an expanded role for the existing National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA). Recent reviews of the regulatory framework, and investigations of the 2008 Varanus Island pipeline explosion and the 2009 Montara incident highlighted inadequacies in the Australian offshore petroleum regulatory regime. This paper looks at the findings from those reports and focuses on the recent reforms. At the time of the blowout from the Montara oil field on 21 August 2009, reform was already underway on the Australian offshore petroleum regulatory framework. Changes to the OPGGS Act had been recommended by several reviews. The Montara incident and the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Macondo oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico brought the safety and environmental aspects of offshore petroleum regulation into public focus, and provided further impetus for reform.
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in Australia. The book describes the administrative organization, regulatory framework, and relevant case law pertaining to the development, application, and use of such forms of energy as electricity, gas, petroleum, and coal, with attention as needed to the pervasive legal effects of competition law, environmental law, and tax law. A general introduction covers the geography of energy resources, sources and basic principles of energy law, and the relevant governmental institutions. Then follows a detailed description of specific legislation and regulation affecting such factors as documentation, undertakings, facilities, storage, pricing, procurement and sales, transportation, transmission, distribution, and supply of each form of energy. Case law, intergovernmental cooperation agreements, and interactions with environmental, tax, and competition law are explained. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for energy sector policymakers and energy firm counsel handling cases affecting Australia. It will also be welcomed by researchers and academics for its contribution to the study of a complex field that today stands at the foreground of comparative law.
Cooperation across borders requires both knowledge of and understanding of different cultures. This is especially true when it comes to the law. This handbook is the first to comprehensively present selected legal cultures based on a very specific set of structural elements which can be found in all such cultures. Legal cultures are a product of and impacted by certain fundamental and commonly shared ideas on and expectations of the law. In all modern societies these ideas are to a certain degree institutionalized or at least embedded in institutionalized practices. These practices determine the way lawyers are educated and apply the law, how they engage with the ongoing internationalization of law and what kind of values they adhere to. Looking at these elements separately enables the reader to identify similarities and differences and to explain them contextually. Understanding these general features of legal cultures can help avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations of foreign law and its application. Accordingly, this handbook is a necessary starting point for all kinds of legal comparative studies conducted by academics, students, judges and other legal practitioners.
This innovative book explores the legal character of petroleum licences, a key vehicle governing the relationship between oil companies and their host states. Examining the issue through the lens of legal culture, it illustrates why some jurisdictions exert strong state control and others only minimal.
Petroleum Resource Management offers a thought-provoking examination of how countries manage their offshore petroleum resources by comparing the different approaches to licensing and regulation taken by Australia, Norway and the UK.Based on extensive research into their policies, licensing systems and resource management regulations, including interviews with government regulators and companies, John Chandler explores how these countries all face similar challenges as their offshore petroleum basins mature, including smaller discoveries, marginal production and ageing infrastructure. Identifying further challenges such as climate change and the increasing accountability in relation to sustainability and social issues, Chandler analyses how their petroleum policy, systems of regulation and regulators developed up to the present, and how they are responding to these challenges, as well as how they deal with exploration, development, infrastructure sharing and production.This timely and informative book will be essential reading for those in petroleum policy and governance, including petroleum lawyers, government officials, regulators and analysts. Academics and students on courses relating to petroleum regulation and the governance of resources will also benefit from this engaging book.
