| Dwindling supplies and higher prices ensure these high costs will be accompanied by attractive returns. But what about environmental costs? How much pressure can sensitive frontier environments bear without irreversible damage? How much can industry spend to ease these pressures? How can these outlays best be allocated? This conference proves the oil and gas industry ready to respond to these issues, to search for the real and sensible trade-offs between the urgent need for energy and the need to minimise environmental impacts.
The oil industry, with its privileged combination of capital, revenue and technology, is in a position to prove that growth and progress in the energy sector can continue without damaging delicate social and natural environments. Indeed, this conference signals an awareness that greater cooperation between disciplines and institutions will be needed to cope with the complex choices facing the industry now and in the future.
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Section I.NORTH SEA COASTAL LANDS
Environmental aspects of the development of North Sea oil
The North Sea and its coastal lands
Control strategies: physical planning
Norwegian planning strategy for development of petroleum resources
Control strategies: conservation
Discussion, papers 1 to 5
Section II. OIL, STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT
Mossmorran: planning considerations
The search for oil and gas on the continental shelf north of 62ºN: present and future
Forties field development: the environmental aspect
The problem of setting standards for environmental protection: the United Kingdom and Norwegian approaches
The UK sector: forecasting the effects of production and consumption
Discussion, papers 6 to 10
Section III. PLANNING, LAND AND COMMUNITY
Europe and the environmental assessment
Ecological planning
St Fergus: visual and design considerations
Flotta terminal: visual and design considerations
Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay
The community impact of North Sea oil
The impact of North Sea oil on Stavanger
The impact of North Sea oil on the Grampian Region and Aberdeen
Discussion, papers 11 to 18
Section IV. HAZARDS AND CONTROL
Environmental control of petroleum-related industry on the Gulf of Mexico coast
The Shetland Islands and the impact of oil
Hazard analysis: what can it achieve?
A company’s experience of environmental protection requirements at continental European coastal sites
Protection of the marine environment of Scapa Flow and Sullom Voe
Protection of the marine environment of the Norwegian continental shelf
Discussion, papers 19 to 24
Section V. ISSUES, LESSONS AND CONCLUSIONS
Summing-up—the UK view
Summing-up—the Norwegian view
General Discussion
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
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