Managing the risk of offshore oil and gas accidents : the international legal dimension /: the international legal dimension. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited b Gunther Handl and Kristoffer Svendsen.
• Editors: Handl, Günther; Svendsen, Kristoffer
• Contents: Introduction -- The editors -- Part I: Prevention and minimization of harm -- 1. Corporate governance and risk management / Michael Bothe -- 2. Regulating the safety of offshore oil and gas operations: A performance-based regulation and the development of international regulatory uniformity in offshore oil and gas operations / Michael Tsimplis and Wassim Dbouk -- B. Managing offshore safety in the United States after the Macondo disaster / Jacqueline L. Weaver -- 3. The international regime of oil spill contingency planning and response / Erik Røsæg -- 4. Regional arrangements for contingency planning and response -- A. Oil spill response in the EU / Maria Gavouneli -- B. Oil spill response in the Arctic: The Norwegian-Russian experience / Maria Sydnes and Are Kristoffer Sydnes -- C. Oil spill response in the North American Arctic: Canada, the United States, and Greenland / Michael LeVine, Andrew Hartsig, Louie Porta, Chris Debicki, and Amanda Joynt -- D. Oil pollution prevention and response: The Mediterranean and other regional arrangements / Tullio Scovazzi -- 5. Managing environmental risks through the terms of maritime delimitation and related agreements / Nigel Bankes -- Part II: Liability and compensation of loss -- 6. Allocating transboundary loss from offshore oil and gas accidents / Günther Handl -- 7. Damage compensable -- A. The recovery of pure economic loss under the oil pollution act: A unified test of causation / Vernon Valentine Palmer and Kristoffer Svendsen -- B. Pure environmental damage / Peter Wetterstein -- 8. Punitive damages / Martin Davies -- 9. The role of insurance in offshore oil and gas operations / Özlem Gürses -- Part III: Claims processing -- 10. The CLC/fund experience / Måns Jacobsson -- 11. Specific oil spill incidents -- A. The BP-Deepwater Horizon claims process / Edward F. Sherman -- B. Compensation claims arising from the Montara oil spill / Shane Bosma and Josh Underwood -- 12. Other mass tort claim perspectives: Mass tort settlements in a European context / Harald Koch and Joachim Zekoll -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 467 pages)
• Subjects: 622/.33819; Offshore oil well drilling -- Risk management; Offshore gas well drilling -- Risk management; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1786436744; 9781786436740
• Related ISBNs: 9781786436733; 1786436736
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 16, 2019).
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