Offshore petroleum regulatory reform: the WA experience—first 12 months in review

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 435
Author(s):  
Graeme Waters
Keyword(s):  
Tracking System ◽  
Regulatory Reform ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Adjacent Area ◽  
Offshore Area ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
To Come

On 1 January 2012, a new regulatory framework for the offshore oil and gas industry in Australian Commonwealth waters started. The changes were profound and brought about a single national regulator for safety, environmental management, and well integrity. It also meant that the seven former designated authorities were abolished in favour of a single National Titles Administrator. In the lead up to the reforms, ministers Martin Ferguson and Frederick Moore agreed that officials from their respective departments would implement cooperative working arrangements for the WA adjacent offshore area, to facilitate and ensure a smooth transition for the industry and help achieve the recommendations of the Productivity Commission's review. The authors of this extended abstract reflect on and share the experiences of the past 12 months. An update of the authors' respective agencies' progress beyond the transition phase is also discussed. This extended abstract also outlines projects of interest and how they will benefit the industry and continue to develop the foundations of the cooperative working arrangements between NOPTA and WA-DMP. During the changes and transition program, industry and regulators have strived to engage in the new regime, and the results have been positive. Now is the opportunity for us to come together, ask questions, share information, and examine what has worked and what is yet to come. Several aspects of the arrangements are now evident: the establishment of the National Core Store and Data Repository, the establishment of the National Electronic Approvals and Tracking System (NEATS), and the day-to-day interactions between NOPTA and WA-DMP. The WA-DMP speaker reviews Joint Authority operations for the WA adjacent area since the establishment of NOPTA and NOPSEMA. Bill Tinapple also reviews regulatory framework developments for WA; in particular, changes to provide for shale and tight gas and oil activity, as well as, public engagement to increase confidence in regulatory processes. Coordination of regulatory processes across jurisdictional boundaries are reviewed, including case studies for Gorgon, Wheatstone, and Macedon.

Offshore petroleum regulatory reform: the Western Australian experience—first 12 months in review

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 436
Author(s):  
Bill Tinapple
Keyword(s):  
Tracking System ◽  
Regulatory Reform ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Adjacent Area ◽  
Offshore Area ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
To Come

On 1 January 2012, a new regulatory framework for the offshore oil and gas industry in Australian Commonwealth waters started. The changes were profound and brought about a single national regulator for safety, environmental management, and well integrity. It also meant that the seven former designated authorities were abolished in favour of a single National Titles Administrator. In the lead up to the reforms, ministers Martin Ferguson and Frederick Moore agreed that officials from their respective departments would implement cooperative working arrangements for the WA adjacent offshore area, to facilitate and ensure a smooth transition for the industry and help achieve the recommendations of the Productivity Commission's review. The authors of this extended abstract reflect on and share the experiences of the past 12 months. An update of the authors' respective agencies' progress beyond the transition phase is also discussed. This extended abstract also outlines projects of interest and how they will benefit the industry and continue to develop the foundations of the cooperative working arrangements between NOPTA and WA-DMP. During the changes and transition program, industry and regulators have strived to engage in the new regime, and the results have been positive. Now is the opportunity for us to come together, ask questions, share information, and examine what has worked and what is yet to come. Several aspects of the arrangements are now evident: the establishment of the National Core Store and Data Repository, the establishment of the National Electronic Approvals and Tracking System (NEATS), and the day-to-day interactions between NOPTA and WA-DMP. The WA-DMP speaker reviews Joint Authority operations for the WA adjacent area since the establishment of NOPTA and NOPSEMA. Bill Tinapple also reviews regulatory framework developments for WA; in particular, changes to provide for shale and tight gas and oil activity, as well as, public engagement to increase confidence in regulatory processes. Coordination of regulatory processes across jurisdictional boundaries are reviewed, including case studies for Gorgon, Wheatstone, and Macedon.

scholarly journals The Oil and Gas ROFR: Understanding Current ROFR Issues from the Point of View of the Transactional Lawyer, the Litigator, and In-House Counsel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. MacDiarmid ◽  
Sean J. Korney ◽  
Melanie Teetaert ◽  
Julie J.M. Taylor ◽  
Robert Martz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
Corporate Lawyers

Rights of first refusal and other preferential or pre-emptive rights (together, ROFRs, and individually a ROFR) routinely find their way into oil and gas industry agreements. Disputes often arise because of the complex nature and significant economic consequences of ROFRs. In recent years, a number of reported cases, either relating directly to ROFRs or more generally relating to contractual interpretation, have clarified (or at times muddied) the waters surrounding the use, application, and interpretation of ROFRs. However, most ROFR disputes never result in a reported decision because the parties typically negotiate solutions long before trial.The authors consider current trends involving ROFRs in oil and gas agreements, and how they believe the law and legal practice surrounding ROFRs might continue to evolve in the years to come. The authors do not attempt to rehash the fundamentals of the law surrounding ROFRs; instead, they focus on how the courts have dealt with ROFRs in recent cases as well as how corporate lawyers and in-house counsel grapple with ROFRs day-today. The authors utilize the ROFR provisions found in industry standard contracts to analyze outstanding areas of uncertainty as well as what lawyers should contemplate prior to including a ROFR in an agreement. Additionally, the article examines the implications of recent rulings on the duty of good faith that may affect ROFRs. Finally, the article considers selected subjects of topical interest, including ROFRs in the context of busted butterfly transactions, insolvency proceedings, and package deals.

scholarly journals Design a Mobile Application for Children’s Tracking in Crowded Environments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanweer Alam ◽  
Abdirahman Ahmed Hadi ◽  
Rayyan Qari Shahabuddin Najam ◽  
Shamimul Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
To Come ◽  
Children First ◽  
Crowded Environments

Child Tracking System is a mobile application where the parent can monitor their children location in crowded environments. In addition to children, there is also the elderly people, and the disabled people, so the guidance or the person responsible of them can use this application to track their location. The parent or guidance side will have the application in which they can track, and on the other side, the child or the old person or the disabled person will have device that includes the GPS chip. The main goal of this research is to design an application with system that will help parents to keep track of their children, eventually reducing the cases in which the children or the other mentioned categories of people could be lost. The current used solution to this problem is that the children first have a wearable hand wrist in which they print their parent phone number, so when the child is lost there is a center in which the child is being taken and dealt with care till they contact the parent to come and pick the child up. The problem with the current way that it takes time, and there is a risk that child get totally lost or kidnapped before even reaching to any help, so the new way is better to even prevent them to go far away or to be lost for hours, thus the recovery here will be fast unlike the regular used way nowadays. That goal will be achieved throw systematically objectives starting from studying the existed systems, to planning and analysing, going to designing and implementing, and lastly, testing our own system.

scholarly journals Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Address National Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Thiers ◽  
Paula Mabee ◽  
Anna Monfils
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Voucher Specimen ◽  
Core Data ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

The U.S. national heritage of approximately one billion biodiversity specimens, once digitized, can be linked to emerging digital data sources to form an information-rich network for exploring earth’s biota across taxonomic, temporal and spatial scales. A workshop held 30 October - 1 November 2018 at Oak Spring Garden in Upperville, VA under the leadership of the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) developed a plan for maximizing the value of our collections resource for research and education. In their deliberations, participants drew heavily on recent literature as well as surveys, and meetings and workshops held over the past year with the primary stakeholder community of collections professionals, researchers, and educators. We propose to focus future biodiversity infrastructure and digital resources on building a network of extended specimen data that encompasses the depth and breadth of biodiversity specimens and data held in U.S. collections institutions (BCoN 2019). The extended specimen network (ESN) includes the physical voucher specimen curated and housed in a collection and its associated genetic, phenotypic and environmental data. These core data types, selected because they are key to answering driving research questions, include physical preparations such as tissue samples and their derivative products such as gene sequences or metagenomes, digitized media and annotations, and taxon- or locality-specific data such as occurrence observations, phylogenies and species distributions. Existing voucher specimens will be extended both manually and through new automated methods, and data will be linked through unique identifiers, taxon name and location across collections, across disciplines and to outside sources of data. As we continue our documentation of earth’s biota, new collections will be enhanced from the outset, i.e., accessioned with a full suite of data. We envision the ESN proposed here will be the gold standard for the structured cloud of integrated data associated with all vouchered specimens. Collectively, data linked through the ESN will enhance the capacity to explore research questions across taxonomic, temporal and spatial scales. The ESN will allow researchers to explore the rules that govern how organisms, grow, diversify and interact, and enable scientists to ask more nuanced research questions specific to how environmental change and human activities may affect those rules. The specimen, coupled with the open access ESN, and immediate and relevant science resulting from the ESN, can play a unique role in promoting STEM education, involving citizen scientists, and empowering a scientifically literate society. The specimen and the associated data provide a relatable and engaging entry point to participate in iterative data driven science, learn core data literacy skills, and build open, transdisciplinary collaboration. Creating the ESN requires new infrastructure to provide the linkages between the specimen and data derived from it. On the established foundation of existing digital data from collections it will require the development of new standards, connections, and resources such as ontologies to facilitate discovery, and implementation of a robust identifier tracking system. Finally, continued digitization of established, as well as new collections, is necessary to ensure the grounding of extended specimen data in the framework of when and where it was collected. The ESN will also require new approaches to data sharing and collaboration, partnerships with national and international data providers, computer and data scientists, educators and industry. The ESN will benefit from research-driven episodic funding for the collection of new specimens, which in turn will require digitization and curation. For the ESN to function as envisaged above, it will require long-term support for a central organizing unit with responsibility for community coordination, education and outreach, data mobilization, and maintenance of the central data repository and the network infrastructure.

A Future for Federal Regulatory Budgeting?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61
Author(s):  
John D. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Reform ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Regulatory Affairs ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Reform Legislation ◽  
Comprehensive Reform ◽  
The U.S

For decades, a strong case has been made for comprehensive reform of the U.S. federal government’s regulatory processes (for early contributions, see Weidenbaum & DeFina, 1978; Lave, 1981; Breyer, 1982; Harrison & Portney, 1983; Litan & Nordhaus, 1983; Viscusi, 1992; Breyer, 1993; Sunstein, 1996; Graham, 1996, 1997). Establishment of centralized Office of Management and Budget (OMB) oversight through the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) was an important achievement, but Congress has not yet passed comprehensive regulatory reform legislation.

Interpreter Sam

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 980-980
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Career Goal ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
To Come ◽  
A Company ◽  
Personnel Department

Sam traveled back about two-thirds of a lifetime to see a young man, the proud owner of a newly awarded graduate degree and married for only two weeks, walking into the lobby of the building where he would start his career as a geophysicist in the oil and gas industry. He carried a personalized leather briefcase, a gift from his parents which was very fashionable in those days; he doesn't remember any details of its contents. By his own estimate he was confident, but not too confident, and undoubtedly was much more nervous and apprehensive than he realized at the time. After only a few years and still on a very steep segment of his personal learning curve, he chose to take a position with a different company, necessitating relocation of his family to another state. At his new company a representative of the Personnel department (the language hadn't evolved to Human Resources yet) asked him, “What is your primary career goal?” Instinctively and without hesitation he replied, “I want to be the best geophysicist you have.” He couldn't have imagined how often the substance of his response would motivate and guide him in years to come, nor could he have known at the time that there is no such person as the “best geophysicist” in a company (see Interpreter Sam in the October 2008 issue of TLE). Certainly there is an “only geophysicist” in some companies, but …

scholarly journals Development and Shari'ah issues of the Takaful industry in Malaysia – Effects of the Regulatory Framework on the Implementation and Growth

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Muhamad Badri Othman
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Merger And Acquisition ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Related Area ◽  
Acquisition Strategies ◽  
Paper Review ◽  
To Come

Objective - This paper aims to discuss and analyse whether the participation of long established conventional insurance conglomerates will be positive towards the development of the Takaful, particularly in the aspect of the operators' compliance towards Shari'ah requirements. Methodology/Technique - The study reviews literature in related area. Findings - Findings indicate that the merger and acquisition (M&A) which have taken place recently by other foreign insurers with our local Takaful operators show that the growth of this industry is promising for years to come for the foreign insurers to tap into our Takaful market. Novelty - The study attempts to provides insight on effect of foreign companys' merger and acquisition strategies in Takaful market. Type of Paper: Review Keywords: Islamic finance; Islamic Financial Services Act 2013; merger and acquisition; Shari'ah compliance; Takaful.

scholarly journals Design a Mobile Application for Children’s Tracking in Crowded Environments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanweer Alam ◽  
Abdirahman Ahmed Hadi ◽  
Rayyan Qari Shahabuddin Najam ◽  
Shamimul Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
To Come ◽  
Children First ◽  
Crowded Environments

Child Tracking System is a mobile application where the parent can monitor their children location in crowded environments. In addition to children, there is also the elderly people, and the disabled people, so the guidance or the person responsible of them can use this application to track their location. The parent or guidance side will have the application in which they can track, and on the other side, the child or the old person or the disabled person will have device that includes the GPS chip. The main goal of this research is to design an application with system that will help parents to keep track of their children, eventually reducing the cases in which the children or the other mentioned categories of people could be lost. The current used solution to this problem is that the children first have a wearable hand wrist in which they print their parent phone number, so when the child is lost there is a center in which the child is being taken and dealt with care till they contact the parent to come and pick the child up. The problem with the current way that it takes time, and there is a risk that child get totally lost or kidnapped before even reaching to any help, so the new way is better to even prevent them to go far away or to be lost for hours, thus the recovery here will be fast unlike the regular used way nowadays. That goal will be achieved throw systematically objectives starting from studying the existed systems, to planning and analysing, going to designing and implementing, and lastly, testing our own system.

Pinellas County Resource Recovery Facility Capital Replacement Project

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald J. Castro ◽  
R. Peter Stasis
Keyword(s):  
Resource Recovery ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Pinellas County ◽  
Current Term ◽  
To Come ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Additional Service ◽  
Capital Replacement

Pinellas County has completed the first two phases of a four-phase project intended to preserve the life of the Pinellas County Resource Recovery Facility (PCRRF) for years to come. This project, called the Capital Replacement Project (CRP), is designed to restore key portions of the County’s investment, and prepare the facility for a smooth transition to a new operating contract when the current term expires in 2007. By the end of 2004, with the scheduled completion of the CRP project, key plant systems and components are expected to be in robust condition and capable of many years of additional service.

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