Contents List of contributors ix Preface xi Abandoned wells (incl. well plugging) 1 Angus McKay Access arrangements and access regime for infrastructure in Norway 6 Yngve Bustnesli ALARP – as low as is reasonably practicable 10 Keith Anderson Alexander Kielland accident 12 Ernst Nordveit Aquifier 14 Barry P. Setterfield Arbitration in gas disputes 16 Kim Talus Award of oil and gas licences 19 Tina Soliman Hunter Baseline 23 Marianthi Pappa British Petroleum (BP) 26 Angela Dobb Carbon capture and storage (CCS) 32 Tina Soliman Hunter Cessation of production 36 Ruth Thomas Climate change and oil and gas production 40 Daria Shapovalova Coal bed methane (aka coal seam gas) 43 Stewart Henderson Competition law 47 Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Leigh Hancher Continental shelf 52 Abdullah Al Arif Conventional petroleum 55 Angela Dobb Decommissioning of offshore installations 56 Alexandra Wawryk Deep water and ultra deep water drilling 60 Angus McKay Deepwater Horizon 64 Andrew Hopkins Drilling (incl. directional and extended reach) 69 Angus McKay Drilling best practice 73 Arthur Dacre Drilling fluids 80 Keith Anderson Drilling rigs 86 Keith Anderson Ekofisk 89 Tina Soliman Hunter Electrification of oil and gas operations 92 Siv Elén Årskog Vedvik and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui Energy security 97 Vlado Vivoda Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) 100 Angela Dobb Environmental protection in oil and gas activities 101 Daria Shapovalova Equinor 103 Knut Høivik Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) 108 Ernst Nordtveit Exploration, appraisal and development 110 Gillian M. Sykes Field abandonment and decommissioning 116 Ruth Thomas Field Development Plan 124 Angela Dobb Foreign investment and participation 128 Moritz Wüstenberg Gulf of Mexico 131 Richard J. Fox Hydraulic fracturing 137 Angela Dobb Hydrocarbon Licensing Directive 141 Ernst Nordtveit Impact benefit agreements in the petroleum sector 143 Solomon Nwaulikpe Obulor International oil companies 148 Tina Soliman Hunter International treaties and conventions 150 Abdullah Al Arif Joint development agreements 153 Constantinos Yiallourides Joint Operating Agreement: Norway 157 Ernst Nordtveit Joint ventures (commercial agreements) 159 Tina Soliman Hunter Law of the Sea 163 Marianthi Pappa Liability and insurance 167 Kristoffer Svendsen Licensing and concession system 172 Tina Soliman Hunter Logging (incl. mud, wireline and while drilling) 175 Andrew M. Davies Make good provisions 180 Madeline Taylor Marker crudes and oil trading 183 Emre Üsenmez Maximising economic recovery 188 Judith Aldersey-Williams and Valerie Allan National Data Repository (NDR) UK 192 Simon Churchfield National interest 197 Ahad Al-Yahyai National oil companies 201 Michael LaBelle and Felizberto Antonio Mulhovo Natural gas liquids (NGLs) 206 Angela Dobb Norm price for oil and gas 207 Ernst Nordtveit North American system 210 Tina Soliman Hunter North Sea system 213 Tina Soliman Hunter North Sea Transition Authority (Oil and Gas Authority) 218 Angela Dobb Norwegian petroleum model 223 Ole Gunnar Austvik Offshore petroleum 228 Angela Dobb Oil and gas in the European Union 230 Kim Talus Oil pricing 1950–85 233 Emre Üsenmez Oil sands 238 Michael Livingstone Oil spills and oil pollution 242 Daria Shapovalova OPEC 245 Alanoud Khalid Albargan Operator 250 Stewart Cunningham Orphan wells 254 Ruth Thomas Ownership of oil and gas 258 Ernst Nordtveit Petoro 260 Torbjørn Mæland Petroleum 264 Graeme W. Will and Angela Dobb Petroleum (hydrocarbon) accumulation 267 Gillian M. Sykes Petroleum geology 271 Rachel E. Brackenridge Petroleum value chain 275 Tina Soliman Hunter Piper Alpha 278 John Paterson Platforms, installations and subsea infrastructure 281 Gillian M. Sykes Porosity and permeability 286 Barry P. Setterfield Production 290 Angela Dobb Production sharing contracts 295 Ahad Al-Yahyai Recovery 300 Graeme W. Will Regulation and regulators 304 Jordie Pettit Reserves and resources 308 Graeme W. Will Reservoir 312 Gillian M. Sykes Reservoir fluids 313 Graeme W. Will Resource curse 316 Nnennaya J. Nwali and Eddy Wifa Resource management 320 Henrik Jorem Rule of capture 323 Owen L. Anderson Russian petroleum system 327 Irina Fodchenko Safety case regulation in the offshore oil and gas industry 334 Andrew Hopkins Saudi Aramco 338 Alanoud Khalid Albargan Seismic surveying 342 Aaron Lockwood Shale gas and oil 348 Angela Dobb Shell and the Royal Dutch Group 349 Angela Dobb Social licence to operate 354 Madeline Taylor Sovereignty and sovereign rights 358 Marianthi Pappa State Direct Financial Interest (SDFI) Norway 362 Torbjørn Mæland State participation and intervention 366 Tina Soliman Hunter Stratigraphy 370 David A. Southwood Taxation and royalties 375 Tina Soliman Hunter Technology and innovation 377 Iain Lees and Emma Lees Territorial sea 383 Abdullah Al Arif Third party access to infrastructure 386 Mary Wallace Tight gas and oil 390 Angela Dobb Transportation of oil and gas 391 Tina Soliman Hunter Ultra deep water drilling 395 Angus McKay Unconventional oil and gas 396 Angela Dobb Unitization of oil and gas fields 398 Ernst Nordtveit Well integrity 401 Arthur Dacre Worker participation and safety: tripartite approach 408 Ole Andreas Engen and Preben H. Lindøe