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Well-Safe Solutions and Apache Corporation sign P&A Club decommissioning deal

Well-Safe Solutions and Apache Corporation sign P&A Club decommissioning deal   Well-Safe Solutions and Apache Corporation have signed a multi-year framework agreement to decommission wells in the North Sea, as part of the decommissioning specialist’s Plug and Abandonment (P&A) Club offering. The deal provides the US-based energy producer with access to specialist decommissioning assets the Well-Safe Defender and Well-Safe Guardian to P&A its well stock. Chris...

Exceptional first year gets decom specialist off to flying start

Exceptional first year gets decom specialist off to flying start   A leading light in the decommissioning waste sector has marked the end of an exceptional first year in business by announcing that it has delivered contracts worth £3 million. Phoenix Decom is based in Aberdeen and has strategically located operational outlets at Peterhead and Lerwick as well as Aberdeen.  It was set up during the Covid-19 pandemic by respected industry leader Craig Smith, supported by a...

International contract wins set Decom Engineering up for successful year and further growth

International contract wins set Decom Engineering up for successful year and further growth   Decom Engineering (Decom) have kicked off 2023 with a number of project wins and workscopes valued in excess of seven figures sterling. Underlining the global appeal of Decom’s cutting technologies, the decommissioning specialist has secured new projects in Africa, Norway, Thailand and Singapore, while strengthening ties to an existing client in Malaysia. Scotland and Northern Ire...

Solstad vessel set to perform decom ops offshore Brazil

Solstad vessel set to perform decom ops offshore Brazil   Solstad Offshore’s offshore construction vessel (OCV) Normand Cutter has arrived in Brazil to conduct decommissioning activities for Petrobras under a contract with Brazilian oil and gas services provider Ocyan. According to Ocyan, the decommissioning activities will be performed on Petrobras’ subsea structures in Campos Basin and Sergipe-Alagoas. The Brazilian company informed that the contract was awarded la...

Aker : A decommissioned platform's final journey

Aker : A decommissioned platform's final journey   As part of its decommissioning offering, Aker Solutions can now hand the offshore operator a Second Life Report on the raw materials a platform contributes to the circular economy. A drilling platform, it turns out, can be 99 percent recycled. The report spotlights the quantity of all materials yielded in decom work. For topsides that broke heavy lift records when they were installed, that's a lot of valuable raw materials...

“A huge amount to celebrate” - Decom North Sea Awards to acknowledge sector transition

“A huge amount to celebrate” -  Decom North Sea Awards to acknowledge sector transition   The energy industry’s only awards dedicated to decommissioning excellence are now open for entry. Celebrating innovation and success across the sector, the winners of the sixth annual Decom North Sea Awards will be announced at a ceremony on 16 May as a part of the organisation’s flagship conference, Decom Week. This year the Awards, which were established by D...

Global Maritime completes Marine Warranty Surveying Decommissioning Scope

Global Maritime completes Marine Warranty Surveying Decommissioning Scope   Global Maritime recently completed the Marine Warranty (MWS) scope for another removal campaign in Southern North Sea, making a total of ten successful campaigns in the region over the last four years for three different clients and five removal contractors. This latest project consisted of the removal of four platforms by offshore contractors AF Decom and DEME with vessel ‘Orion’, including Van...

Saipem secures decommissioning work in UK North Sea

Saipem secures decommissioning work in UK North Sea   Italy’s Saipem has secured a contract from UK-based operator EnQuest to remove the upper jacket that has supported its Heather platform in the North Sea. The contract covers all the engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal of the upper part of the jacket in accordance with the submitted decommissioning programme, EnQuest said. Saipem will deploy its S7000 14,000t combined twin crane capacity to conduct a single...

“Climate of Change” Decom Week Calls for Abstracts

“Climate of Change” Decom Week Calls for Abstracts   Decom North Sea, the membership organisation focused on the global late life and decommissioning sector, has launched Decom Week 2023 with a call for abstracts. A fixture in the industry calendar for over ten years, 2023’s event, entitled “Climate of Change: Opportunities in Decommissioning” will take place in Aberdeen 15 – 19 May. DNS Chief Executive, Sam Long, says the agenda has been crea...

Four leading operators collaborate to accelerate well decommissioning technologies

Four leading operators collaborate to accelerate well decommissioning technologies   Harbour Energy, ConocoPhillips, Spirit Energy and Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited confirmed members of the well decommissioning collaboration initiative. Collaborative initiative will have a total of up to £1.5 million annual funding available to support field trials and test innovative well decommissioning technology ideas. Initiative will accelerate the pace at which technology is...

Billions to be spent on decommissioning the UK's oil and gas infrastructure — industry group

Billions to be spent on decommissioning the UK's oil and gas infrastructure — industry group   Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), the leading representative body for the UK’s offshore energy industry, predicts billions of pounds will be spent to decommission the infrastructure that has kept the UK’s energy flowing for the past 50 years, according to a report published by the group. OEUK will publish its Decommissioning Insight report next week, predicting a surge in...

Oil rig repurposed as visitor attraction on Weston-super-Mare shoreline

Oil rig repurposed as visitor attraction on Weston-super-Mare shoreline   Seemonster, a design experiment led by Newsubstance, seeks to encourage visitors and designers to “look optimistically forward” in the field of renewable approaches. Newsubstance has led experimental project Seemonster, which saw a decommissioned oil rig turned into an installation to encourage reuse. Seemonster is one of ten central-government-funded projects commissioned as part of Unboxed fe...

National Decommissioning Centre and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority launch research partnership

National Decommissioning Centre and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority launch research partnership   The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) have signed a three-year collaborative research agreement - the first of its kind between the nuclear and oil and gas decommissioning sectors. The unique strategic partnership, supporting research with a potential value of up to £900,000, will see researchers from the University of Aberdee...

Neptune Energy awards major decommissioning contract for Dutch, UK North Sea

Neptune Energy awards major decommissioning contract for Dutch, UK North Sea   Neptune Energy today announced the award of a $30 million decommissioning contract to Well-Safe Solutions, for a campaign covering more than 20 wells located across eight Dutch and UK North Sea fields. It is the first multi-region, multi-well decommissioning campaign award by Neptune to a single rig contractor and will significantly reduce time and costs associated with the work. Well-Safe Solutions&r...

Allseas Completes Single Largest Offshore UK Decom Deal

Allseas Completes Single Largest Offshore UK Decom Deal   Offshore engineering company Allseas has been awarded a major decommissioning contract by TAQA UK for the removal and disposal of multiple Northern North Sea facilities. Aberdeen-based TAQA manages the UK North Sea exploration and production portfolio for UAE-headquartered utilities and energy group Abu Dhabi National Energy Company. The engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal contract comprises TAQA’s Eide...

Mermaid, EXCEED gearing up for ‘landmark’ P&A campaign in North Sea

Mermaid, EXCEED gearing up for ‘landmark’ P&A campaign in North Sea   Mermaid Subsea Services (UK) Ltd and its partner EXCEED Energy are awaiting the arrival of DP2 construction vessel Olympic Challenger to kick off a landmark multi-operator vessel-based plug and abandonment (P&A) campaign in the North Sea. According to a social media update, the Olympic Challenger will arrive at the Port of Aberdeen early next month via Reach Subsea, as Mermaid Subsea Service c...

Well-Safe taps Trendsetter for UK North Sea plug and abandonment campaign

Well-Safe taps Trendsetter for UK North Sea plug and abandonment campaign   Trendsetter Engineering has secured a contract with Well-Safe Solutions to utilise its flagship intervention system and technical services for UK North Sea abandonment. Under the contract, Trendsetter will deploy its Trident Intervention System which was designed for rapid reconfiguration in the field, providing the flexibility to conduct intervention riser, riserless wireline intervention and hydraulic sti...

Perenco set to remove decommissioned subsea pipelines from Pickerill field

Perenco set to remove decommissioned subsea pipelines from Pickerill field   Starting on 11 August, oil and gas exploration services provider Perenco Gas UK Ltd. is planning to cut and remove decommissioned pipeline ends from the Pickerill gas field in the North Sea. As part of the decommissioning project, Perenco will undertake all pipeline operations at Pickerill A and Pickerill B platforms. Offshore support vessel Maersk Achiever will mobilise from the port of Blyth in the UK...

UKCS decommissioning cost estimate drops 25% to £44.5bn

UKCS decommissioning cost estimate drops 25% to £44.5bn   Cost reduction estimate is equivalent to £15bn saving Well decommissioning campaign approach gains traction New target will maintain industry focus on cost-efficiency The cost of decommissioning oil and gas infrastructure has been cut by 25% in the past five years, according to the latest estimates published today. The North Sea Transition Authority’s (NSTA) Decommissioning Cost Estimate Report...

Supply chain to gain valuable insight into operators’ well P&A opportunities

Supply chain to gain valuable insight into operators’ well P&A opportunities   Repsol Sinopec and EnQuest amongst operators to share plans Agenda includes examples of “game-changing” supply chain well P&A campaigns Co-hosted by North Sea Transition Authority and Decom North Sea Later this month, an event designed to highlight supply chain opportunities within the multimillion-pound UKCS well decommissioning sector will take place in Aberdeen. C...
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