Articles & Submissions

Submission of Sean Rush Law and Policy Limited on the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2024

Is Wellington Sinking GSNZ March 2024 Sean Rush

My beautiful home town, my friends and family, and the politicisation of Cyclone Gabrielle

Climate Change: The Past, The Present and The Future

Submission of Sean-Rush Energy Infrastructure Law-Limited on the Zero-Carbon Bill: Transparency, Accountability, Honesty and the Absence of other Democratic Safeguards

Spindletop submissions on the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Bill 2018

Spindletop submissions on the Zero Carbon Bill – Time for Some Honesty

Future Energy Needs and Engineering Integrity and a New Zealand Coda, by Professor Michael Kelly, the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge, and winner of the Royal Society’s Hughes Medal

New Zealand Energy Perspectives – Reflections on 2016 and Thoughts for the year ahead

Climate Change – Leadership from the Petroleum Industry

Spindletop submissions on the development of a new Gas Transmission Code for the combined Maui and Vector pipeline systems

Oil & Gas Handbook, Chapter 6: Unitisation and Redetermination, Sean Rush (Sweet & Maxwell) 1st ed (2016)

Oil and Gas Decommissioning: Law, Policy and Comparative Practice – New Zealand, Sean Rush (Globe, Law & Business) 2nd Ed. (June 2016)

Journal of World Energy & Business Law: Production and Offtake Rights in Joint Operating Agreements – Lessons from Pohokura, Sean Rush (2015) vol. 8 (5) Pp 439 – 472

Spindletop Report on the Opportunities for Maori in the Petroleum Sector, October 2015

Decommissioning: A comparative analysis of the UK and New Zealand frameworks, presentation to New Zealand regulators, 2015

Presentation to the Ngati Kahungunu “Fish Hook’ hui, March 2015: The Petroleum Industry – An insider’s perspective

From Crime to Climate Change: Making your own luck in a changing world, presentation to Waikato University Law Faculty and Staff, Sean Rush (July 2015)

Key Provisions in JOAs – Presentation Kensington Swan Energy Law seminar series, Sean Rush, September 2012

International Bar Association’s Current Practice editorial, Sean Rush, September 2012

Sean Rush submissions on the review of New Zealand’s Crown Mineral’s Act (April 2012)

Access to Infrastructure on the UKCS: The Past, the Present and a Future, Sean Rush LLM Thesis, March 2012

Submission on the ‘Access to Infrastructure’ aspects of the UK’s Energy Bill, Sean Rush, June 2011

Funding UKCS Developments – New structures for a ‘de-integrating’ industry, Sean Rush, June 2011

International Bar Association submission to the EU on the appropriate regulatory response to Macondo, Joint Working Group (incl. Sean Rush) May 2011

The regime governing upstream oil and gas development in Romania, Sean Rush, April 2011

Unitisation and Redetermination – Winning the end game, Sean Rush, May 2010

The UK’s decommissioning security agreement – Securing the Future Today, Sean Rush, May 2010

State Participation in the Oil & Gas Industry – A Case Study of State Participation in Newfoundland and Labrador, Sean Rush, May 2010

IBA’s Current Practice editorial, Sean Rush, April 2009

IBA’s Current Practice editorial, Sean Rush, September 2007