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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what procedures he has in place to ensure continuous risk assessment and monitoring to prevent serious oil pollution incidents in UK waters arising from oil extraction activities. - Inc ref to Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation Convention)...
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what procedures he has in place to ensure continuous risk assessment and monitoring to prevent serious oil pollution incidents in UK waters arising from oil extraction activities. - Inc ref to Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation Convention)...
Asked by
Joan Walley
(Labour)
Answered by
John Battle
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
17 November 1998
For answer on
19 November 1998
Answered on
19 November 1998
Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what procedures he has in place to ensure continuous risk assessment
and monitoring to prevent serious oil pollution incidents in UK waters arising from oil extraction activities; and if he will make a
statement. [60808]
Mr. Battle: The recently implemented Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation Convention)
Regulations 1998 require that for each installation involved in oil extraction activities a plan is submitted, which includes an
assessment of the risk of spills. These plans must be reviewed every 5 years, or earlier if there are any major changes which may
affect the validity or effectiveness of the plan.
DTI inspectors travel offshore to inspect installations on a regular basis to ensure that operators are in compliance with any
legislative requirements. In addition, all offshore installations are routinely over-flown by the anti-pollution surveillance
aircraft. Operators are obliged by law to report all spills of oil resulting from their activities.
Subjects
Inspections; Environment protection; Exploration; Oil; Pollution; Offshore structures
Date
19 November 1998
Reference
319 c885W; 60808
House
House of Commons
Supplementary on plans to develop offshore wind power.
Supplementary on plans to develop offshore wind power.
Asked by
Lord Whitehead
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
29 October 1998
Subjects
Offshore structures; Wind power
Date
29 October 1998
Reference
318 c446
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Kim Howells
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Oral answers to questions
Subjects
Offshore structures; Wind power
Date
29 October 1998
Reference
318 c446
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Type
Treaties;
Command papers
Author
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Laid on
18 October 1998
Coming into force
7 August 1998
Notes
Received 16.10.98; Received 16.10.98
Subjects
Decommissioning; Environment protection; Offshore structures; Norway; Brent Spar
Date
18 October 1998
Reference
Cm 4070;Treaty 46 (1998)
House
House of Commons
Statement on his objectives at the forthcoming OSPAR convention in Lisbon.
Statement on his objectives at the forthcoming OSPAR convention in Lisbon.
Asked by
Joan Walley
(Labour)
Answered by
Michael Meacher
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
2 July 1998
For answer on
17 July 1998
Answered on
17 July 1998
Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on his
objectives at the forthcoming Oslo-Paris convention in Lisbon. [49322]
Mr. Meacher: The main purposes of this first Ministerial Meeting of the Commission established by the 1992 OSPAR Convention for the
protection of the marine environment of the North East Atlantic are to round off certain aspects left unresolved by the 1992
Convention and to set the strategies for the Commission over the next generation.
When the OSPAR Convention was negotiated in 1992, the then French and UK Governments insisted that the Convention should preserve a
potential future option for France and the UK to re-start the dumping at sea of low-and intermediate-level radioactive waste. Last
September the UK and France announced that they would give up that option. The Ministerial Meeting is expected to approve a formal
instrument to terminate the option. There will thus be a complete ban on dumping radioactive waste.
In 1992, there was insufficient support for extending the competence of the OSPAR Commission beyond land-based discharges, dumping,
the offshore oil and gas industry and the monitoring and assessment of the marine environment. Largely as a result of UK
initiatives, the Ministerial meeting is expected to approve a new Annexe to the Convention on the protection of marine wildlife and
habitats. This will fill an important lacuna.
The Ministerial Meeting will also aim to adopt new rules on the disposal of disused offshore installations. The UK is committed to
returning all disused offshore installations to land wherever it is safe and practicable to do so. The problem is to settle how to
deal with the exceptions.
There is substantial agreement to a regime which would provide for a general ban on dumping such installations or leaving them in
place, subject to:
a. derogations for some large steel installations, all existing concrete installations and exceptional and unforseen circumstances;
and
b. an assessment framework and consultation procedures before such derogations can be allowed.
The definition of the category of large steel installations where derogations are to be allowed remains to be agreed. There is also
a question about future concrete installations.
The UK is making a new proposal on large steel installations. We have already accepted that it will generally be safe and
practicable to return all topsides to land. Discussion of large steel installations has therefore been about the substructures. So
far, all parties have considered these substructures as a whole. We now think that it would be helpful to distinguish between the
footings of the substructures and the rest of them.
In order to help achieve consensus, the UK is now prepared to accept a general obligation to return all the parts of all large steel
structures above the footings to land for recycling or final disposal. My hon. Friend the Minister for Science, Energy and Industry
has played a large part in developing this idea. This would mean that there would be a complete ban on dumping steel installations,
which is what many have sought. Such a ban would also prohibit the toppling of all steel installations. Footings will be considered
on a case by case basis but with a presumption that they will be removed wherever practicable and safe to do so.
With the new Convention, Ministers from the Contracting Parties need to agree the basis on which the officials will work
internationally over the next decades. We want to agree strategies that are demanding but achievable and which will guide the work
of the OSPAR Commission over the next twenty years or more. These strategies need to be acceptable to all the Contracting Parties,
and we shall therefore be considering with our colleagues the various proposals on the table. We must be satisfied of our ability to
deliver on any commitments we enter into. The strategies under consideration are:
a. Hazardous substances: The proposed strategy on hazardous substances represents a major new initiative. The strategy should make a
clear commitment to ultimate goals of reducing concentrations of hazardous substances in the marine environment to background levels
for naturally occurring substances and close to zero for man-made synthetic substances, and to a time frame of moving towards the
cessation of discharges of hazardous substances by 2020. There should also be a mechanism to identify the hazardous substances that
we should be tackling as priorities. This strategy would be a major new step, working in parallel with the EC Framework Directive on
Water. The strategy should also provide for new efforts to identify and tackle endocrine disruptors.
b. Radioactive substances: At the September 1997 meeting of the OSPAR Commission, we restated our wish to make progress on reducing
radioactive discharges to sea and we will fulfil this commitment. To ensure that we are able to foresee and avoid problems related
to radioactive discharges in future, we shall be asking nuclear operators to prepare forward looking strategies for the next twenty
years.
c. Nutrients: The main action to reduce the substances that cause eutrophication comes from the EC Nitrates and Urban Waste Water
Directives. The proposed strategy would complement these by setting up a mechanism to identify eutrophication problem areas and
potential problem areas, and to develop further actions to deal with these where existing programmes are not good enough.
d. Wildlife: To flesh out the new Annexe on Wildlife, the proposed strategy would provide for assessing a wide range of human
activities that may adversely affect wildlife at sea, and the development of measures to address the problems which are identified.
This would represent a new departure in trying to get international agreement on programmes that will protect marine wildlife
outside territorial waters.
e. Offshore oil and gas: Work in this field has been concentrated on the proposed decision on the disposal of offshore
installations. But we will support commitments to develop a long-term strategy to validate environmental management systems and to
set their goals.
Finally, we want to find ways of getting wider membership of OSPAR. The Czech Republic (through the Elbe) and the Russian Federation
are important for OSPAR waters: we would like to open a dialogue with them. We also need to find ways to help the lessons OSPAR has
learnt applied in other regions.
Subjects
Environment protection; Pollution; Offshore structures; Radioactive materials; Treaties; Waste disposal; Seas and oceans; Paris Commission; Oslo Commission
Date
17 July 1998
Reference
316 c325-6W; 49322
House
House of Commons
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, When he expects to have completed the review of taxation of offshore oil and gas production. (Failed OPQ)
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, When he expects to have completed the review of taxation of offshore oil and gas production. (Failed OPQ)
Asked by
Bob Blizzard
(Labour)
Answered by
Baroness Primarolo
(Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
11 June 1998
For answer on
25 June 1998
Answered on
25 June 1998
Mr. Blizzard: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to have completed the review of taxation of offshore oil and
gas production. [46175]
Dawn Primarolo: A consultative document on the North sea fiscal regime is expected to be issued shortly. Industry and other
interested parties will be able to give their views on the options for change.
Subjects
Industry; Oil; Natural gas; Offshore structures; Production; Taxation; North Sea oil
Date
25 June 1998
Reference
46175; 314 c610W
House
House of Commons
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many oil platforms there are in British waters; what is the estimated date of decommissioning for each; what decommissioning options are currently being considered for each oil platform in operation in British waters; and what is the Government's preferred option...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, how many oil platforms there are in British waters; what is the estimated date of decommissioning for each; what decommissioning options are currently being considered for each oil platform in operation in British waters; and what is the Government's preferred option...
Asked by
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor
(Liberal Democrat)
Answered by
Baroness Beckett
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
5 May 1998
For answer on
18 May 1998
Answered on
18 May 1998
Subjects
Decommissioning; Offshore structures; Offshore fixed structures; Tax allowances; North Sea
Date
18 May 1998
Reference
312 c234-5W; 41123;41124;41125
House
House of Commons
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, What recent representations she has received concerning the dismantling and abandonment of redundant off-shore structures and pipeline networks. (Failed OPQ)
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, What recent representations she has received concerning the dismantling and abandonment of redundant off-shore structures and pipeline networks. (Failed OPQ)
Asked by
Norman A Godman
(Labour)
Answered by
John Battle
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
30 April 1998
For answer on
14 May 1998
Answered on
14 May 1998
Dr. Godman: To ask the President of the Board of Trade what recent representations she has received concerning the dismantling and
abandonment of redundant offshore structures and pipeline networks. [40981]
Mr. Battle: I have not received any recent representations under the terms of the Petroleum Act 1987. My Department is currently
considering Shell's revised proposals for the Brent Spar and has had preliminary discussions with a number of operators about their
decommissioning plans.
Subjects
Decommissioning; Offshore structures; Pipelines
Date
14 May 1998
Reference
40981; 312 c185W;312 c185-6W
House
House of Commons
SI 1998/968 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 30 April 1998.
SI 1998/968 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 30 April 1998.
Department
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Statutory instruments
Procedure
Negative
Laid on
7 April 1998
Made on
4 April 1998
Coming into force
30 April 1998
Legislation
European Communities Act 1972; Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1998
Subjects
EU law; Environmental impact assessment; Exploration; Oil; Offshore structures; Production; Pipelines
Commons Library location
UP 1686 1997/98
Date
7 April 1998
Reference
SI 1998/968
House
House of Commons; House of Lords
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, How many abandonment programmes have been approved under the terms of Part 1 of the Petroleum Act 1987, in each of the last eight years. - Ref to Appendix 12 of the Energy Report 1997 Volume II, copy in Lib. (Failed...
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, How many abandonment programmes have been approved under the terms of Part 1 of the Petroleum Act 1987, in each of the last eight years. - Ref to Appendix 12 of the Energy Report 1997 Volume II, copy in Lib. (Failed...
Asked by
Norman A Godman
(Labour)
Answered by
John Battle
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
19 March 1998
For answer on
2 April 1998
Answered on
2 April 1998
Dr. Godman: To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many abandonment programmes have been approved under the terms of Part 1
of the Petroleum Act 1987, in each of the last eight years. [36012]
Mr. Battle: I refer my hon. Friend to Appendix 12 of the Energy Report 1997 Volume II. A copy of the Report is available in the
Library of the House.
Since publication of the Energy Report 1997, the President has approved an abandonment programme in respect of the Donan floating
production installation and its associated pipe-lines.
Shell have submitted a draft revised abandonment programme for the Brent Spar offshore storage and loading buoy.
Legislation
Petroleum Act 1987
Subjects
Decommissioning; Offshore structures
Date
2 April 1998
Reference
36012; 309 c666-7W;309 c667W
House
House of Commons
1st supplementary on assistance given to yards in respect of the international market for offshore structures.
1st supplementary on assistance given to yards in respect of the international market for offshore structures.
Asked by
Norman A Godman
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
5 February 1998
Subjects
Contracts; Industry; Oil; Offshore structures
Date
5 February 1998
Reference
305 c1218
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Answered by
John Battle
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Oral answers to questions
Subjects
Contracts; Industry; Oil; Offshore structures
Date
5 February 1998
Reference
305 c1218
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Answered by
John Battle
(Labour)
Asked by
Norman A Godman
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Oral answers to questions
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, If she will list the construction contracts won by United Kingdom based offshore fabrication yards in the last two years.
Subjects
Contracts; Industry; Oil; Offshore structures
Date
5 February 1998
Reference
305 c1218
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, If she will list the construction contracts won by United Kingdom based offshore fabrication yards in the last two years.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade, If she will list the construction contracts won by United Kingdom based offshore fabrication yards in the last two years.
Asked by
Norman A Godman
(Labour)
Answered by
John Battle
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
22 January 1998
For answer on
5 February 1998
Answered on
5 February 1998
Subjects
Contracts; Industry; Oil; Offshore structures
Date
5 February 1998
Reference
305 c1218; 25696
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Statement on when regulations to implement the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC) as it applies to offshore oil and gas activity will be laid before Parliament.
Statement on when regulations to implement the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC) as it applies to offshore oil and gas activity will be laid before Parliament.
Asked by
Lawrie Quinn
(Labour)
Answered by
John Battle
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
2 February 1998
For answer on
3 February 1998
Answered on
3 February 1998
Mr. Quinn: To ask the President of the Board of Trade when regulations to implement the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive
(85/337/EEC) as it applies to offshore oil and gas activity will be laid before Parliament. [27867]
Mr. Battle: The text of draft regulations to implement the 1985 Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC) as it applies
to the offshore industry has been revised following consultation in 1997.
The revised text includes changes designed to ensure that the regulations are workable and enforceable. It simplifies the process
for deciding when environmental statements are required and lengthens the minimum time available for public comments on such
statements from fourteen days to four weeks. It also introduces penalties for knowingly providing inaccurate information in
connection with an environmental statement or for failure to obtain consent or to observe conditions attached to a consent.
I announced on 10 September 1997 that I saw no reason to wait until 1999 to introduce the thresholds introduced in the 1997 amending
Directive above which environmental assessment will become compulsory for certain development and pipeline projects. The revised
text therefore uses a provision in the 1985 Directive which allows Member States to select appropriate thresholds above which
projects covered by the Directive must be subject to environmental assessment, to require assessments of relevant projects which
exceed these daily production or pipeline size thresholds. The draft Regulations do not implement the 1997 Directive, which Member
States are required to adopt by mid-March 1999.
The revised draft is being circulated by Government Departments and to other organisations which responded to the consultation draft
of 1997. The regulations will now be laid as soon as possible after this second round of consultation has been completed, probably
in March this year.
Subjects
EU law; Industry; Environmental impact assessment; Oil; Natural gas; Offshore structures; Production; Pipelines
Date
3 February 1998
Reference
27867; 305 c608W;305 c607-8W
House
House of Commons
Type
Select Committee reports; House of Commons papers; House of Lords papers;
Parliamentary committees
Committee
Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills
Legislation
Petroleum Bill (HL) 1997/98
Subjects
Department of Trade and Industry; Licensing; Exploration; Oil; Offshore structures; Petrol; Production; Pipelines
Date
21 January 1998
Reference
HC 500 1997/98;HL 61 1997/98
House
House of Lords; House of Commons
Petroleum Bill (HL). Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Referred to Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.
Petroleum Bill (HL). Lords second reading. Agreed to on question. Referred to Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills.
Lead member
Lord Irvine of Lairg
Department
Lord Chancellor's Department
Type
Debates on bills
Legislative stage
Second reading
Legislation
Petroleum Bill (HL) 1997/98
Subjects
Licensing; Exploration; Oil; Offshore structures; Production; Pipelines
Date
12 January 1998
Reference
584 c842-3
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
Petroleum Bill (HL). Lords presentation and first reading (HL Bill 56 1997/98).
Petroleum Bill (HL). Lords presentation and first reading (HL Bill 56 1997/98).
Lead member
Lord Irvine of Lairg
Department
Lord Chancellor's Department
Type
Debates on bills
Legislative stage
First reading
Legislation
Petroleum Bill (HL) 1997/98
Subjects
Licensing; Exploration; Oil; Offshore structures; Production; Pipelines
Date
15 December 1997
Reference
584 c391
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
House
House of Lords
Member
Lord Irvine of Lairg
(Labour)
Department
Lord Chancellor's Department
Type
Consolidation bills
Legislation
Petroleum Bill (HL) 1997/98
Notes
Received 16.12.97
Subjects
Licensing; Exploration; Oil; Offshore structures; Production; Pipelines
Date
15 December 1997
Reference
HL Bill 56 1997/98
House
House of Lords
SI 1997/2703 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 8 December 1997.
SI 1997/2703 (Negative instrument). Coming into force 8 December 1997.
Department
Department of Trade and Industry
Type
Statutory instruments
Procedure
Negative
Laid on
13 November 1997
Made on
11 November 1997
Coming into force
8 December 1997
Legislation
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974; Section 7 of the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934 and Section 2 (1) (a) of the Petroleum Act 1987 (Modification) Regulations 1997
Subjects
Health and safety; Exploration; Oil; Offshore structures; Production
Commons Library location
UP 849 1997/98
Date
13 November 1997
Reference
SI 1997/2703
House
House of Commons; House of Lords