By Martin Lockman, Ashwin Murthy and Romany M. Webb
On May 2, 2025, Ocean Conservancy and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law organized a workshop at Columbia Law School on offshore oil and gas decommissioning in the United States. The overarching goal of the workshop was to bring together offshore law and policy experts to outline a research and policy agenda for offshore decommissioning. Within this broad goal, we sought to (1) identify key opportunities to reform offshore decommissioning law in the United States, both in the short term and over the next decade, (2) identify knowledge gaps and highlight areas for future research, and (3) begin to build interdisciplinary connections between those working on issues related to offshore decommissioning.
Read the Report on Proceedings on May 2, 2025 on decommissioning offshore oil and gas infrastructure in Columbia Law School's Scholarship Archive.