MW07. OIL & GAS EXPLORATION
(updated: August 4, 2006 )

Barraclough, David, 2000, 'RTPI welcomes improved guidance on oil and gas operations', Planning 1356, 18.2.00.

Command Papers (HM Government), available from The Stationery Office (TSO) (was HMSO until 1997):
'The Challenge of North Sea Oil', Cmnd. 7143, 1978.

Department of the Environment (DOE) (former; from June 1997 to June 2001 part of
the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; DETR):
DOE Circular 2/85, Planning control over oil and gas operations', HMSO, 1985.
Draft Mineral Planning Policy Guidance Note, 1996.

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)
- website: http://www.detr.gov.uk
NB: DETR replaced from June 2001 to May 2002 by the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)
'Mineral Planning Guidance: On-Shore Oil, Gas and Coalbed Methane Development - Draft Consultation Document' (designed to replace former DOE Circular 2/85), 1999, http://www.planning.detr.gov.uk/consult/mpg/onshore/index.htm
'The Public Gas Transporter Pipe-line Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999, SI no. 1672, 1999.
'Sulphur Content of Heavy Fuel Oil and Gas Oil (Consultation Paper)', March 2000, http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/consult/sulphur/index.htm

Department of Trade and Industry (DTI):
'Guidance on Environmental Assessment of Cross-Country Pipelines', 1992.
'The Energy Report: Competition, Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom', HMSO, London, 1995.
'Guidance on the Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipelines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1998, 1998.
'Public Gas Transporter Pipeline Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999, 1999.
'Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipelines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Amendment) Regulations (draft) , available from Graham Cobb, tel. (020) 7215 5151, January 1999.

Environment Agency
(formed in April 1996 from merger of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution; HMIP &
the National River Authority; NRA) -
EA reports available from Public Enquiries, Rio House, Waterside Drive,
Aztec West, Bristol BS32 4UD, tel. (01454) 624400 / tel. (0800) 585794.
- website: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk
'Oil and Gas in the Environment', TSO, November 1998.

Feature, 1996, 'Planning Achievement Awards: Wytch Farm - development of the Sherwood Reserves', Wytch Farm Oilfield, Planning Week 4 (5), 12.96.

Fleary, B.J, 1998, 'Decline of the Age of Oil', Pluto Press, London.

Friends of the Earth, 1996, 'Lost Treasures: The Long-Term Environmental Effects of the Sea Empress Oil Spill', FOE, London.

Gilbert, A & Healey, P, 1985, 'The Political Economy of Land: Urban Development in an Oil Economy', Gower, Aldershot, Hampshire.

Gibson-Smith, Chris, 1999, 'Calling Time on Hydrocarbons', (AMOCO's changing plans), Green Futures (Forum for the Future) 15, March/April.

Lawson, Trevor, 1996, 'Exploration or exploitation?', (Wildlife Trusts) Natural World, Winter.

Nature Conservancy Council (renamed English Nature in 1992), 1986, 'Nature conservation guidelines for onshore oil and gas development, NCC, Peterborough.

Northern Ireland Assembly and Northern Ireland Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment, 2000, 'Minerals and Petroleum exploration and development in Northern Ireland', Northern Ireland Assembly Papers, 2000-2001, NIA 28, TSO, December, ISBN: 0-33-940009-9

Salter, Edward & Ford, John, 2000, 'Environmental Pollution Challenges and Associated Planning and Management Issues Facing Offshore Oil and Gas Field Development in the UK', (Carfax / Taylor & Francis Ltd.) Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 43 (2), March, pp253-276.

The Scottish Office, Edinburgh (former):
The Scottish Office National Planning Guidelines, available from TSO, Edinburgh:
National Planning Guidelines 1974: North Sea Oil and Gas: Coastal Planning Guidelines 1974.
National Planning Guidelines 1981: Land for Petrochemical Development;
'Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order) (Scotland) Amendment (no. 2) Order 1996: Water and Sewerage Authorities and Liquified Petroleum Gas, 1986.

West, Richard & Foot, Paul, 1975, 'Anglesey: Aluminum and Oil', Chapter 6 in Smith, Peter J, 'The Politics of Physical Resources', Penguin Education, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, in association with The Open University Press. GP5514.SMI

WWF Scotland, 2004, 'Learning Lessons from Large-Scale Developments', September 2004, and at http://www.PlanningResource.co.uk

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