The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas. By Alexander G. Kemp. Volume I: The Growing Dominance of the State. Pp. 626; 1 map; 10pp tables. ISBN: 9780415447546 (hbk) £100; 9780203806241 (ebk). Volume II: Moderating the State's Role, pp. 714; 3 maps; 8pp tables. ISBN: 9780415570947 (hbk) £100; 9780203806234 (ebk). London: Routledge, 2011.

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Chris Harvie
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The State ◽  
Official History ◽  
History Of

The history and future of North Sea oil and gas: an environmental perspective

1987 ◽  
Vol 316 (1181) ◽  
pp. 487-493 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Northern North Sea ◽  
Construction Operation ◽  
Biological Environment

The history of the development of the hydrocarbon resources of the North Sea is reviewed in an environmental context. The development of impact assessment techniques and practices and the evolution of monitoring of the physical, chemical and biological environment offshore and onshore, with reference to platforms, subsea pipelines, pipeline landfalls and terminal construction and operation is discussed. A brief account of the development of environmental protection management practices and their application to the design, construction, operation and management of major production projects follows. The paper concludes with a look at the environmental conditions likely to be established as the industry moves into the northern North Sea and areas such as the West Shetland Basin, and their significance for the petroleum industry.

scholarly journals A Problem Lurking Just Below the Surface

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-525
Author(s):  
Terrell Fenner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Oil And Gas Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effective Remedy

A long history of oil and gas development in Texas has made the state the number one energy producer in the United States, and the bulk of that energy is produced from fuels acquired by drilling into the vast natural resources that sit below the state. As a side effect of this long history, it is common for the surface and mineral estates in Texas to be severed, and many severances happened several generations ago. This history has spread mineral interests between dozens of owners in some cases, many who are unknown and cannot be found. Absentee ownership has diluted the value of these fractionalized interests and has made use by their non-absentee counterparts more difficult. Existing laws that have been used in the past to clear absentee owners from title have not been effective in the context of a severed mineral estate, as those laws evolved primarily to address surface interests, or to accomplish other purposes with only incidental effect on land titles. This Comment discusses the inadequacy of the current methods used in Texas to remove absentee owners from mineral titles and illustrates the need for a more effective remedy. It then offers a dormant mineral act that suits the unique cultural and economic needs of Texas and addresses the growing fractionalization of Texas’s mineral estates.

The UK North Sea: a history of oil and gas

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy King
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Partial Reversal

AbstractWith a history spanning over 50 years, the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is one of the most explored and mature basins in the world. Over 44 Bbbl of reserves have been recovered from over 450 fields across the UKCS, enabled by continuous improvement in seismic, drilling and development technologies. Starting in 1965 with BP's West Sole discovery in the Southern Gas Basin, every sector of the UKCS has since opened up. But it is not just the discoveries that have characterized this ultra-mature region. It has weathered a turbulent history of oil prices, fiscal changes, an ever-changing corporate environment and the industry's worst offshore disaster, which serves as a reminder of the uncompromising conditions of the North Sea.Production peaked at the turn of the millennium, and it is only since 2013 that there has been a partial reversal of the declining trend. With discoveries getting scarcer and smaller, maintaining the trend will not be easy, especially with the number of companies exiting the region for more prospective global opportunities on the rise. However, with an estimated 10–20 Bbbl yet to find in the basin, there is still a lot to play for in the coming years.

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

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