CAN AN ACT OF PIRACY BE COMMITTED AGAINST AN OFFSHORE PETROLEUM INSTALLATION?

Year: 
2014

Article:

Issue: 
1

Author(s): 
Kashubsky Mikhail
Abstract: 

The author assesses piracy as a security threat to offshore petroleum installations and analyses how the international legal framework addresses piracy in the context of offshore petroleum installations. The author attempts to answer the key question of whether an act of piracy can be committed against an offshore petroleum installation in the legal sense.

Key words: 

piracy, offshore petroleum installations, international law of the sea, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982

Text of the article: 
English