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Conference on Comparative Offshore Oil & Gas Law: UK-Norway-USA, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, 12-13 March 2015

  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    

Potential CO2 storage sites on the Norwegian continental shelf: the Petroleum Directorate publishes two interactive maps

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 .

Expert Commission assesses conditions for increased productivity in Norway (report)

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 officially launches works on the Energy Union

  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