Throughout the history of the North Sea as an oil province, the regulation of health and safety at work has proved both difficult and contentious. Successive regulatory approaches have been introduced ranging from an initial formal system in which there was no substantive state intervention, thr...
The present report is a preliminary analysis of compliance of the existing situation regarding external offshore emergency response plans with the requirements of Article 29 and Annexes VII and VIII of the Offshore Safety Directive. This report will be the basis for the next phase of the project...
The SCHEER was requested to assess public health risks resulting from onshore oil and gas exploration and extraction activities on a commercial scale in the EU, and to identify knowledge gaps. Onshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation can induce increased human exposure to biocides, scale...
Ensuring high levels of safety in the European offshore oil and gas industry is of paramount importance to the European Commission and to the Member States. To this purpose, Directive 2013/30/EU (also known as Offshore Safety Directive) introduced new safety requirements, and imposed additional ...
This Final Report is an assessment of the entire UCG&CO2 STORAGE project (the project). It describes the scientific and technical work during the 2.5-year study, the objectives under the grant agreement and results obtained during the period 1 July 2010 to 31 December 2012. The main subject of t...
During the year 2019 the DG Joint Research Centre offered scientific support to the Cities of Northern Netherlands in their transition towards the closure of the Groningen gas field. This study reports on the assessment of the regional socio-economic impacts deriving from the closure of the gas ...
