Legal Issues Rig Oil Pollution Several Punitive Damages

Marine accounted for the entire71%of earth surface area, rich in resources andenergy, along with the development of modern science and technology, technology ofmarine petroleum exploitation is becoming more and more mature, provides the ways forsolving good to ease the energy shortage, but also to the marine environment causedserious problems.An oil drilling platform in April20,2010the United States Coast of Louisiana fireexplosion,11people were killed. At the bottom of oil spill from5000barrels a day, then25000to30000barrels of oil, the United States has evolved into the most serious disaster.China Marine Bureau in2012July published " the investigation report about theinvestigation and handling of the Penglai19-3oil spill accident" on its official web site.The report points out, oil spill accidents caused by peripheral and northwest area ofPenglai19-3oilfield is about6200square kilometers of sea pollution (super first classseawater quality standard), of which870square kilometers of sea water is polluted (superfourth class of sea water quality standard). The highest concentration of oil in seawaterover53times of the background value,resulting in the largest ever environmental disaster.The international community is very concerned about marine oil pollution problem,and has made unremitting efforts to reduce pollution, improve the marine environment.The current laws and regulations related to drilling platform whether domestic or foreign,have relatively little. As for the application of petroleum contamination of drillingplatform of punitive damages is a new research subject.The first part of the oil contamination of drilling platform and the punitive damageswere and defined systematically, and extracted several basic characteristics of oil pollutionof drilling platform. The second part discusses the subject of compensation system indetermining some drilling platforms, oil pollution compensation main body principle and the principle of oil drilling platform punitive compensation type. The third part on thebasis of further analysis of the oil pollution applicable conditions of punitive damages andapplication of drilling platform drilling platforms, oil pollution the punitive compensationnecessary conditions. The fourth part studies the problem of determining oil drillingplatform in China the amount of punitive damages, and put forward the determine theamount of compensation of oil pollution of drilling platform in China that under thecurrent circumstances.