Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

  The Louisiana State University (LSU) Journal of Energy Law & Resources is organising a conference on comparative offshore oil and gas law regimes between the United Kingdom, Norway and the United States . The conference will take place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA , on 12-13 March 2015 . It is structured around four topics : licensing systems , third party access to offshore infrastructure , license (lease) terms , and environmental, health and safety .   I am glad to be associated to this project and will be presenting the Norwegian licensing regime . See you in Baton Rouge?   More information on the event on the LSU website: http://www1.law.lsu.edu/cle/seminars/jelr/ And  brochure : http://host.law.lsu.edu/lsucle/15JELR.pdf    

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has released two interative maps based on the data collected from its atlases for potential CO 2 storage sites (CO 2 Atlases): one is an interative CO 2 Atlas, so-called "CO 2 FactMap" , check here ; the other one present general data and called "CO 2 StoryMap" , check here .

The specially appointed Commission on Productivity ( Produktivitetskommisjonen in Norwegian) has submitted its first report to the Norwegian Finance Minister on 10 February 2015 .   The first report looks at the basis for Growth and Welfare ( Produktivitet – grunnlag for vekst og velferd   , NOU 2015:1) and covers all sectors including petroleum and energy. The full document is available here (in Norwegian).   Website of the Productivity Commission: http://produktivitetskommisjonen.no/   A thorough comment of the Commission's report will be published on this blog in the coming days.

  The European Commission announced on 4 February 2015 that it has officially launched work on the Energy Union , which was one of the initiatives promoted by President Juncker in his Political Guidelines .   Here is the link to the Commission's press release: IP/15/4103 .   For comments on the earlier versions of the concept of Energy Union, see previous post here  (paragraph on "resilient Energy Union").   Picture: Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President of the EC in charge of Energy Union (c) European Union, 2015