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DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.10.009 |
Offshore risk regulation: A comparative analysis of regulatory framework in Ghana, the United Kingdom and Norway | |
Acheampong, Theophilus1; Akumperigya, Rainer2 | |
2018-02-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENERGY POLICY |
ISSN | 0301-4215 |
EISSN | 1873-6777 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 113页码:701-710 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Scotland; Ghana |
英文摘要 | This paper assesses Ghana's offshore health and safety regulatory regime in the context of international best practice in the upstream oil and gas industry. It contributes to the discussion of the emerging issue of offshore risk regulation in new petroleum producing countries. We present a comparative analysis contrasting two leading safety regimes namely the United Kingdom and Norway to Ghana's emerging regime to benchmark common features as well as weaknesses. Our findings indicate that Ghana requires a robust regulatory regime that ensures that health and safety risks are properly delineated if the country is to avoid catastrophic accidents. This is especially important as these risks are more pronounced with deepwater operations such as those prevalent in the country's petroleum basins. We propose the enactment of a general Health & Safety at Work law in Ghana backed by subsidiary regulations to harmonise the disjointed and sometimes incoherent health and safety provisions. Additionally, we propose that the health and safety regulatory function of the Ghana Petroleum Commission should be decoupled to form an independent Competent Authority as activity levels and the degree of complexity of operations increase to prevent conflict of interest between its regulatory and licensing functions. |
英文关键词 | Risk regulation Offshore health and safety Safety ases Goal setting regimes |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000423009500065 |
WOS类目 | Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/18606 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Aberdeen, Dept Econ, ACREEF, Aberdeen, Scotland; 2.Partners & Associates, Legal Practitioner, Accra, Ghana |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Acheampong, Theophilus,Akumperigya, Rainer. Offshore risk regulation: A comparative analysis of regulatory framework in Ghana, the United Kingdom and Norway[J]. ENERGY POLICY,2018,113:701-710. |
APA | Acheampong, Theophilus,&Akumperigya, Rainer.(2018).Offshore risk regulation: A comparative analysis of regulatory framework in Ghana, the United Kingdom and Norway.ENERGY POLICY,113,701-710. |
MLA | Acheampong, Theophilus,et al."Offshore risk regulation: A comparative analysis of regulatory framework in Ghana, the United Kingdom and Norway".ENERGY POLICY 113(2018):701-710. |
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