The Changing Face of Regulation in Australia's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: An Analysis of Post Incident Regulatory Reform From Piper Alpha to Deepwater Horizon
Article from: OGEL 2 (2013), in Risks and Responses to Risk in the Energy Sector
Overview
Offshore oil and gas production facilities pose a real threat to the marine and costal environments in which they operate. Increasingly, large oil spills and natural gas explosions rank among the highest impacting major human-caused environmental disasters, despite a long evolution of industry practice, technological development and government regulation. Major offshore oil and gas disasters incite catastrophic repercussions on marine species, coastal environments and the social, political and economic interest of governments and the wider community. In the highly complex and ...