Energy Update - 10 July 2013

Welcome to this edition of Field Fisher Waterhouse's Energy Update.

This fortnight we look at the groundbreaking TAP pipeline announcement, a huge upwards revision in UK shale gas estimates and an update on the next UK Energy Bill. There are new rules for the judicial review of UK planning decisions, new guidance on decommissioning wind farms and the ISLES study into creating an offshore electricity grid between Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We also look at Norway opening up the Arctic to oil exploration. A report on offshore safety has recently been published in the UK and the European Commission has published human rights guidance for the oil & gas sector. Finally, we examine a recent court decision on the dangers of having inconsistent provisions in separate documents in the same transaction.