{"id":58047,"date":"2015-06-17T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4cb2782165ce43e1663627d265205239"},"modified":"2015-06-17T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T11:31:12","slug":"statement-to-parliament-establishment-of-the-oil-and-gas-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=58047","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: Establishment of the Oil and Gas Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>I wish to inform the House that on 1 April 2015, whilst Parliament was prorogued, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (\u201cDECC\u201d) established the United Kingdom\u2019s new arms\u2019-length oil and gas regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (\u201cOGA\u201d). <\/p>\n<p>Founding the OGA as an Executive Agency of DECC, represents a critical step in implementing the recommendations contained in Sir Ian Wood\u2019s 2014 report (\u201cWood Review\u201d) into maximising economic recovery from the United Kingdom\u2019s Continental Shelf (\u201cUKCS\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Subject to the passage of legislation in this Session of Parliament, I expect the OGA to transition from an Executive Agency of DECC to a Government-owned company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written Ministerial Statement by Andrea Leadsom, Minister of State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}