The focus is on offshore petroleum facilities, but the report also has a side view of other types of installations, such as offshore wind turbines.
Norway and other countries are bound by international agreements which, between other countries, require more or less complete clean-up after offshore petroleum activities, nectar dumping of petroleum facilities in the sea or parts of facilities in countries without adequate waste management systems
and set limits for the transport of hazardous waste and the transport of waste across national borders.
These are important for the holistic understanding of the correspondence as the regulations affect the degree of circularity in the closing process.
A number of other countries have a more mature petroleum activity on the continental shelf than Norway. By comparing different countries' regulations, one can achieve learning across national borders and thus improve the understanding of how the regulations should be designed to achieve an increased degree of circularity at the cessation of petroleum activities.
The report therefore looks at the way the UK, Australia and the Netherlands have designed their regulations for the cessation of petroleum activities and the incentive for circularity that exists in the regulations in these countries. It is
It is worth noting that the EU and Norway have strategies for circular economy, but there are few specific requirements for circularity in the petroleum regulations.