Setting appropriate compliance standards is the first step in establishing the conditions for successful decommissioning. This involves balancing the minimisation of environmental impact against the cost, technical, and health and safety risks of operations.
RESL has extensive experience in assisting regulators in setting suitable standards and guidelines to provide a flexible approach that allows specific project challenges to be managed without additional unnecessary costs. This often has benefits for the operator, the local legislator, and the economy. We also assist operators, partners, service companies and other stakeholders in understanding the Legal and Regulatory framework for decommissioning. Due to our global experience, we offer comparisons between regions and provide recommended best practices from a sound basis of alternatives.
Services include:
- Asset-specific legal and regulatory reviews
- Comparative legal and regulatory assessments
- Gap analysis
- Regulatory interpretation
- Negotiations with regulators
- Regional Decommissioning and Well P&A guideline development
- Decommissioning Plan preparation and submission
- Regulator training
Examples of our work:
- Wrote decommissioning guidelines for the 10 ASCOPE countries in Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
- Developed decommissioning guidelines for South Africa as part of the work undertaken for South Africa’s national oil company, PetroSA
- Prepared lawyers for negotiation with the US Department of the Interior, BOEMRE, on the decommissioning costs and bonding for onshore facilities in California related to the Carpinteria field for Pacific Operators Offshore, Inc.
- Wrote a position paper on taxation guidelines for worldwide decommissioning in the extractive industries for the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- View the list of Decommissioning and Well P&A training courses and workshops conducted here