Managing the Risk of Offshore Oil and Gas Accidents

Edited by Günther Handl, Eberhard Deutsch Professor of Public International Law, Tulane University Law School, US and Kristoffer Svendsen, Post-doctoral research fellow, K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, The Arctic University of Norway and visiting scholar, Tulane Maritime Law Center, Tulane University Law School, US

‘The editors and authors are to be applauded because they succeed in furnishing any reader with a manageable shortcut to achieve a better understanding of how risks in the offshore oil and gas sector should be addressed (”managed”) properly in the twenty-first century.’

• Contents:IntroductionThe EditorsPart I Prevention and Minimization of Harm1. Corporate Governance and Risk Management Michael Bothe2. Regulating the Safety of Offshore Oil and Gas Operationsa. Performance-Based Regulation and the Development of International Regulatory Uniformity in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Michael Tsimplis and Wassim Dboukb. Managing Offshore Safety in the United States after the Macondo DisasterJacqueline L. Weaver3. The International Regime of Oil Spill Contingency Planning and ResponseErik Røsæg4. Regional Arrangements for Contingency Planning and Responsea. Oil Spill Response in the EU Maria Gavounelib. Oil Spill Response in the Arctic: the Norwegian-Russian ExperienceMaria Sydnes and Are Kristoffer Sydnesc. Oil Spill Response in the North American Arctic: Canada, the United States, and GreenlandMichael LeVine, Andrew Hartsig, Louie Porta, Chris Debicki, and Amanda Joyntd. Oil Pollution Prevention and Response: The Mediterranean and Other Regional Arrangements Tullio Scovazzi5. Managing Environmental Risks Through the Terms of Maritime Delimitation and Related Agreements Nigel BankesPart II Liability and Compensation of Loss6. Allocating Transboundary Loss from Offshore Oil and Gas AccidentsGünther Handl7. Damage Compensablea. The Recovery of Pure Economic Loss under the Oil Pollution Act: A Unified Test of CausationVernon Valentine Palmer and Kristoffer Svendsenb. Pure Environmental Damage Peter Wetterstein8. Punitive Damages Martin Davies9. The Role of Insurance in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Özlem GürsesPart III Claims Processing 10. The CLC/Fund Experience Måns Jacobsson 11. Specific Oil Spill Incidentsa. The BP-Deepwater Horizon Claims ProcessEdward F. Shermanb. Compensation Claims arising from the Montara Oil SpillShane Bosma and Josh Underwood12. Other Mass Tort Claim Perspectives: Mass Tort Settlements in a European Context Harald Koch and Joachim ZekollIndex