 The Hidden Deregulation of Britain's Offshore Oil IndustryMatthias Beck and Charles Woolfson CRIEFF Discussion Papers from Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm Abstract: Since 1990, following Lord Cullen's public inquiry into the Piper-Alpha disaster, the oil industry has spent approximately 2.6 billion pounds on safety improvements. The operators have co-operated with governmental authorities in the design of a new regulatory regime, based on the principles of goal- setting and self-regulation. This paper attempts a preliminary assessment of this regulatory system on offshore safety. We review industry responses to successive tranches of regulation, emanating both from the HSE and the European Union, and explore the tensions which have arisen between regulator in regulated industry. Our statistical analysis indicates that there have been no significant improvements in offshore safety conditions following the establishment of the new regulatory regime; a situation which we attribute to the industry's policy of introducing an agenda of hidden deregulation into the post Piper-Alpha reconstruction of offshore regulation. Keywords: Deregulation; Occupational Safety; Law and Economics; Oil Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:san:crieff:9511 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in CRIEFF Discussion Papers from Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm Department of Economics, Castlecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews, KY16 9AZ. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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