Decommissioning in the UK Continental Shelf: a Litigator's Perspective

Squire Patton Boggs’s Michael Davar and 4 Pump Court’s Gideon Shirazi consider the commercial opportunities offered by the need to decommission offshore oil and gas platforms in the UK continental shelf, including outlining the regulatory framework on decommissioning and the liabilities arising from being served a notice under the Petroleum Act 1998 in the International Energy Law Review.

This material was first published by Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Limited, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, Friars House, 160 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8EZ, in International Energy Law Review as Michael Davar and Gideon Shirazi, “Decommissioning in the UK Continental Shelf: a Litigator’s Perspective” [2015] I.E.L.R. 192 and is reproduced by agreement with the publishers. For further details of Private Client Business, please see the publishers’ website.