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Equipment and technologies for exploration and development of offshore resources of hydrocarbons are among the most complex in the world and keep actively developing. Mineral resources located in more and more remote areas with severe natural and climatic conditions in different areas of the World Ocean characterized by different international legal status are involved in the development. In offshore areas, for drilling of oil wells at the stage of geological exploration, license holders use the following artificial installations and structures: 1) artificial islands; 2) submersible drilling rigs; 3) self-elevating drilling rigs; 4) semi-submersible drilling rigs; 5) drilling vessels. However, it is the floating drilling rigs that currently represent modern technologies in the field of deep seabed mining of hydrocarbons. In world practice, deepwater floating drilling rigs are legally qualified as “vessels”, and they are subject to the jurisdiction of the flag state. The goal of this article is to analyze the jurisdiction of coastal states in relation to floating drilling rigs in various water areas: the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, the continental shelf, and the high sea. The author considers the legal status of floating drilling rigs, their registration in the registers of ships under the “flag of convenience”, the jurisdiction of coastal states in various water areas, the problem of competition between the jurisdictions of the coastal state and the flag state, and the gaps in the laws on protection of the marine environment from oil pollution.

JURISDICTION OF THE COASTAL STATE IN RELATION TO A FLOATING DRILLING RIG DEPENDING ON THE SITE (LOCATION) OF DRILLING OPERATIONS IN THE WORLD OCEAN