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In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon
W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political
methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of
projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology,
the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming
ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book Series.

While the ever-evolving nature of the global energy industry remains apparent particularly with a transition away from fossil fuel energy systems, the role of oil and gas particularly for emerging economies is undeniable. As new discoveries of oil and gas emerge in countries in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, the dominant question will be how to design robust regulatory governance regimes not just for the exploration of oil and gas but also for the management of these resources. As both the United Kingdom and Norway are described as mature oil and gas jurisdictions by virtue of their profound experience, there are valuable lessons to be drawn. Despite some remarkable differences in both the UK and Norwegian regimes, experience suggests that strategy, foresight, regulatory rigour, and political will are valuable to mitigating the consequences of the political economy of speed, which suggest the development of natural resources at the expense of everything else. This paper provides both a comprehensive and critical appraisal of both the UK and Norwegian regimes in a way that captures the complexity of divergent regulatory governance structures.