Offshore Energy Law: Challenges and Opportunities for Renewables and Hydrocarbons (Global Energy Law and Policy)

This book examines the regulatory, environmental, financial, socio-legal, and safety aspects that shape offshore energy infrastructure projects and their operation.The marine environment holds vast resources to provide energy solutions for humankind.The sustainable development of such offshore energy resources is one of the most pressing challenges posed by the energy transition.Whereas offshore hydrocarbons have been explored and extracted for more than a century, the offshore renewable industry is rapidly expanding, with lawmakers increasingly looking to the oceans for significant energy development.Offshore spaces now amalgamate mature and emerging energy industries, creating a pressing need to identify synergies and regulatory challenges.However, and despite the pivotal role offshore energy is to play in the future, the interaction, synergies and conflicts arising between these regulatory, socio-legal, environmental and financial dimensions of offshore energy are often not discusse