About me
John Paterson is Professor of Law at the University of Aberdeen and a founder member of its Centre for Energy Law. He has worked on a range of international research, teaching, training, and consultancy projects in energy law and has published widely on a range of topics in the field. He was a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore in 2023, teaching International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law. He coordinates Aberdeen’s contribution to the Advanced Master’s in Energy Law under the North Sea Energy Law Partnership (with the Universities of Copenhagen, Groningen and Oslo). He contributes a course on regulatory aspects to the University of Aberdeen’s unique MSc Decommissioning programme and also teaches on its ECITB-accredited Introduction to Offshore Decommissioning course. Relevant publications include: (with Greg Gordon) ‘Decommissioning of Offshore Installations upon the UKCS’, European Energy Law Report XIII, 307, 2020; ‘Decommissioning of Offshore Oil and Gas Installations’, in; Gordon, Paterson, and Usenmez (eds), UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends (3rd edition), Vol. 1, pp.391-434, Edinburgh University Press, 2018 (4th edition in preparation), and ‘Decommissioning Offshore Installations: international, regional and domestic legal regimes in the light of emergent commercial, political, environmental and fiscal concerns’, AMPLA Yearbook 2015, pp344-362 (republished online by OGEL, 2018). Professor Paterson gave a Plenary Lecture at the Structures in the Marine Environment Conference, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 23 May 2024. He also teaches on the University of Aberdeen’s LLM International Commercial Law programme at AFG College, Doha, Qatar.