PWYP Australia

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Submission: Roadmap to establish an Australian decommissioning industry for offshore oil and gas 

Our submission focuses on transparency and accountability and on closure policies in the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas. Our submission goes into details on the liabilities, risks of premature closure, defaulting, selling assets and avoiding responsibilities and includes recommendations to make existing policy more robust to protect against any closure liabilities falling to government. These details speak to questions on the regulatory framework of decommissioning.