Its overall object is to ensure a predictable legal, contractual and licensing framework which promotes cost-efficiency and profitability in petroleum activities on the Norwegian continental shelf.
The committee’s work will be rooted in Offshore Norge’s strategy and main tasks, and will be goal- and result-oriented. It will protect the association’s legal interests in such fields as:
- petroleum law
- competition law
- health, safety and environmental law
- commercial law
- criminal law
- civil law and associated areas
- the contractual and licensing framework.
The committee will
- prepare consultation responses and industry positions within the above-mentioned areas
- communicate clear industrial positions on key issues.
Through cross-disciplinary and active collaboration with other committees and in close consultation with the administration, the committee’s work in the above-mentioned areas will include:
- following up common standpoints and strategies
- raising issues of common interest with the government and other industry associations.
Each of the member companies in the oil company and supplier branches can appoint a representative to the committee.