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Decommissioning Defaults: The risks of late-life oil and gas assets
International case studies of systemic failure in how oil and gas decommissioning liabilities are allocated and enforced. They evidence the need for robust financial assurance frameworks that ensure oil and gas companies cannot walk away from their clean-up responsibilities.
Running on Empty: The decline of California’s oil and gas industry and the true cost and scale of decommissioning
This study confirms prior findings that California’s oil and gas industry still cannot fund its own decommissioning. And when understanding the causes of decline for state’s upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors, it’s clear that geology, and not regulations, have driven production declines in California and across the US.
Redwater Insights’ response to Australia's consultation on Offshore decommissioning and financial assurance reforms
The central purpose of any offshore decommissioning regime is simple in principle but difficult in practice: to ensure that oil and gas operators, rather than taxpayers, bear the full cost of decommissioning infrastructure at the end of its productive life.
Report: Lessons from California’s new financial assurance transfer rules
It all begins with an idea.