Speaker 04.22.21
What’s Old Is (Sometimes) New Again: Decommissioning and Repurposing of Aging Assets
8:45AM - 9:30AM CDT
IEL Virtual Conference
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As hundreds of offshore oil & gas structures and thousands of miles of pipeline reach the ends of their functional lifespans, there is an urgent need for decommissioning planning and strategy. Pillsbury can help.
Pillsbury’s Environmental lawyers have been at the forefront of environmental law for many years. Many of our lawyers have played an integral role in the development of environmental regulations while serving at high levels of the U.S. government, including in leadership roles at key federal regulatory agencies such as the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Department of the Interior, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others. This experience means we have an intimate understanding of how to get things done when industry needs to work with government.
We help the industry bring the best science to bear and demonstrate not only how that science helps answer the difficult and complex legal, regulatory and political questions government decision-makers face, but how it may also suggest future uses for a structure that include alternative energy (wind turbine bases, tidal energy), dive platforms and reefs. Pillsbury lawyers helped pioneer the use of quantitative methods such as Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) and Net Environmental Benefits Analysis (NEBA) to allow regulators and stakeholders to meaningfully compare the net environmental benefits in a variety of environmental decision-making contexts, including leave-in-place and removal alternatives in offshore decommissioning decisions. These are tools our lawyers first introduced successfully in other regulatory contexts, both domestic and international, including in the highly complex natural resource damages sphere.
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