Continental shelf United Kingdom

In recent years a new approach to contracting has evolved and Is gaining rapid acceptance In the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS). The concept has become known as partnering and can be seen as a progression of the incentive contract. Whilst the previously described contractual arrangements are restricted to a single well project... 

The fiscal system set by the host government determines the method by which the host nation claims its entitlement to income from the production and sale of hydrocarbons. The simplest fiscal system is the tax and royalty scheme, such as that applied to income from production in the UKCS (United Kingdom Continental Shelf). 

Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semisubmersible rig/platform in the Ekofisk oil field, Norwegian continental shelf, about 235 miles east of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom. The rig/platform was named after a Norwegian writer, and it was owned by the Stavanger Drilling Company of Norway. At the time of the occurrence of the disaster, the rig/platform was hired by the United States Company called Phillips Petroleum. 

This database was created in 1985 in the United Kingdom for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Offshore Safety Division (OSD) [3]. The database was originally concerned with vessel/platform collision incidents on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS). Over the years, it has been amended and extended several times. 

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