Table of Contents

Preface 5
Callum Falconer
Marathon Oil Decommissioning Services LLC

Part A: Decommissioning and the offshore oil and gas life cycle

Decommissioning and the offshore oil and gas life cycle 7
Callum Falconer
Chris Wicks
Marathon Oil Decommissioning Services LLC

Part B: International legal frameworks

UN law on decommissioning offshore installations 21
Leon Moller
Robert Gordon University

OSPAR’s decommissioning policy 33
Luisa Rodriguez-Lucas
OSPAR Commission

Part C: Decommissioning in the UK North Sea

Introduction to UK petroleum law and practice 45
Nicholas Antonas
Marc Hammerson
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Decommissioning reform in UKCS 67
Jill Reid
Maclay Murray & Spens LLP

Decommissioning and the joint operating agreement 73
Nicholas Ross-McCall
CMS Cameron McKenna

Decommissioning security 87
Judith Aldersey-Williams
CMS Cameron McKenna

International taxation 99
Robert Hodges
EY

Environmental law 117
Alexandra Gordon
Adam Hedley
Nicholas Rock
Reed Smith LLP
Maricela Robles
HP Inc

Decommissioning contracts 141
Simon Moore
Stephenson Harwood LLP

Health and safety during decommissioning 151
John Paterson
University of Aberdeen

Decommissioning disputes 177
Michael Davar
Ben Holland
Squire Patton Boggs

Part D: International trends and developments

Angola 225
Rui Mayer
Bruno Neves de Sousa
Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira
João Oliveira
BP

Australia 239
Sam MacGibbon
Minter Ellison

Brazil 275
Eduardo G Pereira
University of Eastern Finland; Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva (MLGTS)

Canada 287
Alan Harvie
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP

Denmark 301
Clara Greve Brett
Laurits Schmidt Christensen
Accura

Indonesia 315
Irina Akentjeva
Herbert Smith Freehills
Mira Fadhya
Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung
Jessica Raza
Axiom Global Ltd

Malaysia 333
Faizah Jamaludin
Skrine

Mexico 351
Iván Aleksei Alemán Loza
Aleman y Asociados, S.C. Energy & Financial Legal Strategies

Namibia 359
Leon Moller
Robert Gordon University

New Zealand 373
Sean Rush
Spindletop Law Limited

Nigeria 387
Oluwadare Agbelese
Folake Elias-Adebowale
Franklin Onwuzu
Sally Udoma
Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie

Norway 401
Erlend B Bakken
Michelet & Co
Merete Kristensen
Karl Erik Navestad
Arntzen de Besche

United States 415
Eduardo Canales
Steven P Otillar
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

About the authors 447