About us

We're responsible for regulating environmental and decommissioning activity for offshore oil and gas operations, including carbon capture and storage operations, on the UK continental shelf.

Responsibilities

Our responsibilities include:

  • handling domestic and international policy relating to바카라 사이트¯the environmental regulatory framework for바카라 사이트¯offshore oil and gas (working with other departments, environmental bodies and international organisations)
  • developing,바카라 사이트¯administering바카라 사이트¯and enforcing바카라 사이트¯the offshore oil and gas environmental regulatory regime (including offshore gas unloading and storage and carbon dioxide storage)
  • implementing the바카라 사이트¯oil, gas바카라 사이트¯and carbon capture and storage decommissioning regime and ensuring that the costs are met by the oil companies and not the taxpayer
  • managing the바카라 사이트¯department바카라 사이트™s Strategic Environmental Assessment for offshore energy projects
  • working with other regulators to drive the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from offshore oil and gas operations; in line with the commitments of the government바카라 사이트™s Net Zero Strategy and the 바카라 사이트˜Powering up Britain바카라 사이트™ Energy Security Plan

Priorities

Environmental operational delivery

  • promoting responsible business practice within the offshore oil and gas industry by working with industry to achieve compliance
  • creating a stable, consistent and proportionate regulatory regime
  • assessing Oil Pollution Emergency Plans, including financial provision for accidents and incidents, and ensuring that operators have an effective emergency response capability in place

Decommissioning

  • reviewing, approving and monitoring the implementation of decommissioning programmes to make sure decommissioning solutions are consistent with regulatory obligations
  • protecting the taxpayer from bearing the full cost of decommissioning (as decommissioner of last resort)

Policy and international delivery

  • achieving consistent and proportionate policy and legislation to underpin our regulatory responsibilities (including our Strategic Environmental Assessment programme and legislative programmes)
  • ensuring the environmental and decommissioning regulatory regime for the offshore oil and gas sector is proportionate both nationally and internationally
  • Regulatory regime development with respect to government priorities such as Carbon Capture and Storage

Who we are

OPRED is part of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). We바카라 사이트™re a team of 120 people, with an Aberdeen headquarters and a presence in departmental offices across the country.

Who we work with

We work closely with a number of partner organisations:

With HSE we form the .

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