Oil and Gas Decommissioning

Decommissioning firm Well-Safe Solutions snaps up second rig

West Epsilon Heavy Duty HE Oil and gas decommissioning firm Well-Safe Solutions has acquired a second rig in a move it claims will spark the…

Super-size Lerwick decom pad takes delivery of its first oil platform

Ninian Northern arrives at Lerwick Harbour Lerwick Port Authority has taken delivery of the 14,200-tonne Ninian Northern platform topside -the first job for the new…

Greenpeace returns to Brent field to protest against Shell’s decommissioning plans

The Greenpeace Ship Esperanza passes in front of the Shell operated Oil platform Brent-C (Charlie). Photo by Carl Shanahan / Greenpeace Greenpeace activists have returned…

Ithaca approved to remove North Sea Anglia platform

Offshore staff ABERDEEN, UK – Ithaca Energy has received approval from the UK’s Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning for its decommissioning proposals for…

Repsol Sinopec calls time on Tartan Alpha after 40 years

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) has decided to stop production on its Tartan Alpha installation after nearly 40 years, putting some jobs at risk. The…

UK decommissioning costs continue to fall

On the way out: the removal of Shell’s Brent Alpha topsides using Allseas’ gigantic Pioneering Spirit vessel Photo: ALLSEAS Latest estimates from regulator show expected…

Big oil rig scrapping job no trouble for Heerema

Dutch firm Heerema has safely removed the steel infrastructure of an end-of-life Shell oil platform, located in the North Sea. The dismantling job required some…

Sleipnir offshore crane breaks own record for single jacket lift

HMC’s Sleipnir safely and sustainably removed Shell’s 10100 mT Brent Alpha jacket. Dutch firm Hereema Marine Contractors (HMC) has broken its own record a single…

Orca to Provide Dive System Support for Well-Safe Guardian

Well-Safe Guardian – Image: Well-Safe Well-Safe Solutions, a UK-based company specializing in P&A services, has awarded Orca Oceanic Systems a contract for the provision of…

OOS New SSCVs Undergoing Final Touches

The two offshore mast cranes on board OOS International’s semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) OSS Walcheren have been installed and load-tested, while the company’s SSCV OOS…

Curlew – a decom object lesson

The Shell Curlew FPSO arriving in Dundee last year I’m baffled by the Curlew decommissioning saga that will now see the life-expired FPSO be dismantled…

Six-figure boost for budding Fife decommissioning facility

An artist’s impression of CessCon Decom’s facility in Energy Park Fife. Plans to create an oilfield infrastructure dismantling facility in Fife have been given a…

Tech knowhow gives new lease of life to marine habitats

Natural defences: mangroves, such as this one in the Caribbean, help to protect coastlines against storm surges © Getty Images As global awareness of the…

Voyageur Spirit heads to Kishorn after leaving Premier Oil’s Huntington field

The Voyageur Spirit FPSO is on its way to the Kishorn Drydocks after leaving Premier Oil’s Huntington field in the North Sea. Work to remove…

Hiretech Limited Investment Supports Decommissioning Sector

Equipment rental business Hiretech Limited has taken receipt of newly built subsea shears and hydraulic grabs as part of a recent £600,000 investment in decommissioning…

Allseas, Kvaerner secure Statfjord A platform removal contract

YourOilAndGasNews – The Statfjord A platform in the North Sea will shut down production in 2022, 43 years after first oil. This more than doubles…

Eni hands in plan to decommission six North Sea platforms

Eni will decommission six platforms in the North Sea. The 48/29A complex is the main operating hub for Hewett. Eni has submitted plans to decommission…

Completion of topside skidding as part of Pickerill platforms’ decommissioning

Petrodec, the decommissioning services specialist, confirmed the successful completion of skidding operations for the topside removal of the Pickerill A unmanned platform, located in the…

Watch: Neptune Energy completes safe removal of three Dutch North Sea platforms

https://vimeo.com/432060409/recommended Neptune Energy on Wednesday (June 24) announced the safe removal of the L10-C, L10-D and L10-G platforms from the Dutch sector of the North…

Petrodec Achieves Decommissioning Milestone

The ability to use one vessel, instead of a drilling rig and heavy lift vessel, is an industry first. Decommissioning services specialist Petrodec has completed…

UK decommissioning spend to fall short of £1.5billion yearly estimate, OGA warns

The OGA said decommissioning spend will fall short in 2020 and 2021 due to the downturn, bringing concern for suppliers. Pic: Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit vessel…

OOS joins decommissioning joint venture

Offshore staff SEROOSKERKE, the Netherlands – OOS International has joined a consortium of Lloyd’s Register and Worley to provide offshore operators with end-to-end decommissioning, from…

Marine biologists forecast effects of oil platform decommissioning on fish communities

Marine biologists forecast the effects of oil platform decommissioning on fish communities Biologists and fishermen alike know that offshore oil platforms function as de facto…

UK approves decom plans for Ineos-operated field

The Cavendish platform. The UK Government has approved Ineos’ decommissioning programme for its Cavendish platform. The field is in the southern North Sea, about 75…

Aker BP Cleared to Use Maersk Invincible Rig for P&A at Valhall

Maersk Invincible – Credit: Maersk Drilling Norwegian oil company Aker BP has secured consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to use the Maersk Invincible…

Ashtead Technology and Reliance Subsea Services enter partnership

Subsea equipment solutions specialist Ashtead Technology has entered into a partnership with Trinidad-based Reliance Subsea Services. Established in 2018, Reliance Subsea provide tooling and equipment…

Taqa Cleared to Remove Eider Platform Topside

Eider Platform – Credit: Taqa The UK authorities have approved Taqa’s decommissioning program the Eider platform topside in the UK North Sea The Eider platform…

Well decommissioning under way on North Sea Rubie, Renee fields

Offshore staff ABERDEEN, UK – Petrofac’s Engineering & Production Services division has started a well decommissioning contract for the Rubie and Renee fields in the…

VIDEO: First Drone Delivery for World’s Biggest Offshore Vessel

Drone delivering a package to the Pioneering Spirit vessel – Credit: Port of Rotterdam, Allseas’ giant Pioneering Spirit offshore construction and decommissioning vessel last week…

GALLERY: Giant Sleipnir vessel wraps up decommissioning campaign for ConocoPhillips

Earlier this month, Heerema Marine Contractors’ giant semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir completed its first decommissioning campaign of the season. It was a unique project,…

Low Oil Prices Could Spur Offshore Decommissioning Wave

The total value of the global pool of offshore oil and gas decommissioning projects that will accumulate through 2024 could reach $42 billion, with the…

Archer boosted by Taqa decommissioning contract awards

The Archer Topaz unit is expected to move to the Cormorant Alpha platform in the second half of next year. Taqa has picked Archer rig…

Offshore decommission sector set for huge growth

As was the case just a few years ago, the offshore decommission sector stands out as the offshore sector set for rapid growth according to…

Maersk in UK decommissioning contract award

Danish contractor Maersk Supply Service has won a subsea removal contract for Fairfield Energy’s Dunlin Alpha project in the UK North Sea. MSS was awarded…

OGA launches its MER UK Strategy review consultation

The Oil and Gas Authority (“ the OGA ”) has launched a consultation into its proposed updated Maximising Economic Recovery Strategy ( “the Strategy” ),…

Kishorn Port aims to prove decommissioning credentials with stricken Minch cargo ship

MV Kaami, which ran around in the Minch, arriving at Kishorn drydock for dismantling. A redeveloped Highland port is aiming to use a stricken cargo…

Drydocks World Starts Bokalift 2 Conversion for Boskalis

Image Credit: Drydocks World Dubai’s Drydocks World shipyard has started construction of the offshore wind installation vessel for the Dutch company Boskalis. Drydocks World held…

Watch the moment enormous Brent Bravo lifting frame disappears into a cloud of dust

This is the dramatic moment the massive lifting framework on the Brent Bravo oil rig was torn down at Seaton port. The enormous structure, or…

Making the right offer: environmental and economic concerns in decommissioning

The untenable nature of the oil and gas industry is something of an open secret. Offshore revenues in the UK alone have cratered over the…

Bureau Veritas’ tool ‘can save millions in decommissioning costs’

A digital twinning and smart data asset management tool from Bureau Veritas, a world leader in testing, inspection and certification services, can save between 9%…

Boskalis Buys Salvage Firm Ardent Americas

Image Credit: Boskalis Dutch dredging and marine services giant Boskalis has acquired the U.S.-based maritime emergency response specialist Ardent Americas. Ardent, created by the 2015…

Repsol Sinopec to Remove Buchan & Hannay Subsea Infrastructure

Credit: Repsol Sinopec UK oil and gas operator Repsol Sinopec has filed a draft decommissioning plan for subsea infrastructure at Buchan & Hannay fields in…

Australia: Decommissioning In Australia – Is The Insurance Market Prepared?

1 Introduction Whilst decommissioning of offshore and onshore sites is a nascent industry in Australia, it is an industry that is set to become increasingly…

Awilco firms up rig contract with Petrofac off UK

Awilco Drilling has firmed up a contract with Petrofac for its semi-submersible WilPhoenix to carry out well plug-and-abandonment work off the UK. The 1982-built rig…

Exclusive: EnQuest calls time on fire-hit North Sea platform

The Heather Alpha platform, operated by EnQuest Oil and gas firm EnQuest has confirmed plans to decommissioning its fire-damaged Heather Alpha platform in the northern…

University of Aberdeen: National Decommissioning Centre and Chevron sign partnership agreement

The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) and Chevron Corporation (CVX) have signed an agreement that will support research at the NDC through to 2023. The anchor…

Progress being made on multi-operator east of Shetland decom programme

Pauline Innes, head of decommissioning at the Oil and Gas Authority. A group of operators is making progress on plans to work together on the…

Tullow Awards Maersk Decom Bundled Project

Above is a Sept. 2019 photo of the subsea support vessel Maersk Installer during a subsea infrastructure removal, recycling and waste management project for the…

Lerwick Port reaps benefits of oil and gas recovery

Credit: John Coutts The gradual recovery in the offshore oil and gas sector’s fortunes has been reflected in the latest traffic statistics from Lerwick Port…

New metal recycling facility will boost Dundee’s decom ambitions

John Lawrie Metals’ director of projects and decom Julian Foley A metal recycling facility to be built in Dundee later this year will take the…

The Ongoing Debate Behind Oil Rigs on the Californian Coast

Krystal ChenStaff Writer The existence of oil rigs off the coast of California has been a continuous issue in Santa Barbara over decades. Ever since…

DEME: Orion’s New Crane Can Lift Nine Airbus Planes

Credit: DEME Group Offshore installation specialist DEME Offshore has shared that its flagship offshore vessel Orion has been fitted with a huge crane boom. The…

Maersk Decom P&A Services for Tullow’s Mauritania Wells

Credit; Maersk Decom Denmark’s Maersk Decom has won a contract for complete plugging and abandonment of Tullow Oil’s Banda and Tiof fields offshore Mauritania. This…

A fast and accurate solution to mercury contamination monitoring

A fast and accurate solution to mercury contamination monitoring Ion Science is highlighting the suitability of its ergonomically designed Mercury Vapour Indicator (MVI) for rapid…

China resumes work on giant heavy-lift vessel

Concept: the Lankun heavy-lift vessel Photo: Image SHANDONG MARINE New company created to finance, build and operate unit destined for offshore decommissioning and installation work…

Saipem ‘beats all targets’ for 2019 as it swings back to profit

The Saipem 7000 lifting the Hywind turbine towers into their floating foundations Saipem has said it has “beat all targets” for 2019 after swinging back…

Boskalis uses Wärtsilä thruster solutions in crane vessel project

A Wärtsilä thruster solution will enable an existing hull to become the crane vessel Bokalift 2. (Image copyright Boskalis) Wärtsilä has committed to a demanding…

Offshore decommissioning – challenges and opportunities

The number of offshore assets reaching their end of life, globally, is rising, meaning decommissioning projects are a real eventuality for many operators. Decommissioning is…

Transformational technology for well plugging and abandonment

Casing Cement Breaker from Deep Casing Tools There is a new transformational tool that could significantly reduce the cost of decommissioning that is currently being…

Offshore energy projects drive W2W demand

Uptime’s gangway enables personnel to transfer from a W2W vessel to an offshore platform New turbine installations will treble capacity to 20 GW by 2030,…

Well-Safe ‘actively’ looking at more rigs as maiden purchase gets ready to hit the market

Picture by SANDY McCOOK 18th February ’20 Wellsafe Guardian underegoes a major refit at the Global Energy Park at Nigg on the Cromarty Firth. Chief…

Schlumberger to provide downhole services for Well-Safe Solutions

Well-Safe Solutions has announced the award of a significant work scope to Schlumberger for the provision of Plug and Abandonment Well Services. The scope includes…

Opportunities Abound in Asia Pac

(File photo: Heerema Marine Contractors) Decommissioning in Southeast Asia and Australia offers a US$100 billion opportunity out to 2040 with a million tonnes of steel…

Timing North Sea decommissioning: when will the boom begin?

A new generation of specialist decommissioning companies are staking their claim to a slice of the UK Continental Shelf decommissioning market, projected to be worth…

Schlumberger Wins P&A Work with Well-Safe

Well-Safe Guardian – Image: Well-Safe The UK offshore decommissioning specialist Well-Safe Solutions has awarded “significant work scope” to Schlumberger for the provision of Plug and…

EnQuest plans to temporarily leave ‘precarious’ Thistle storage tanks on seabed

EnQuest has revealed plans to temporarily leave a pair of 1,200-tonne oil storage tanks from its Thistle platform at the bottom of the North Sea…

CNR International to remove FPSO as part of North Sea decom plans

The removal a Teekay-owned floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel from the North Sea could see further redundancy notices served to workers at the…

Petrobras looks to North Sea to help decommission ‘former cash cow’ Campos Basin

Petrobras has set out the opportunity for UK firms to help decommission assets from its former “cash cow” Campos basin. […] Click here to view…

Ulstein converts Aegir into heavy-lift vessel

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands – Ulstein has converted Heerema Marine Contractors’ Aegir from a deepwater construction into a heavy-lift vessel. After Heerema’s strategic reposition on its…

Premier Oil Files FPSO Removal Plan for North Sea Field

The UK oil and gas operator Premier Oil has field decommissioning plans for the departure of the Voyageur Spirit FPSO and the removal of the…

Shell halts Curlew Dundee decom as final work to be done elsewhere

Curlew at Dundee Pic Peter Devlin Oil giant Shell has confirmed that decommissioning work on the Curlew floating production (FPSO) vessel moored in Dundee has…

Oil and gas exploration: ‘Priority action’ recommendation on disused wells not followed through

Oil and gas exploration: ‘Priority action’ recommendation on disused wells not followed through The government is being taken to task for failing to act on…

Canada’s struggling oil industry leaves thousands of wells abandoned, without enough money for cleanup

Canada’s struggling oil industry leaves thousands of wells abandoned, without enough money for cleanup Under provincial law, oil and gas companies are responsible for plugging…

Old wind turbine blades present a recycling problem

Old wind turbine blades present a recycling problem Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of wind turbine blades that…

Question List 4 – Risks Related to the Magnitude and Timing of Decommissioning Liabilities

Question List 4 – Risks Related to the Magnitude and Timing of Decommissioning Liabilities LONDON, Feb. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As detailed in ARCM’s recent…

Courier Business Briefing: Forth Ports chief executive to outline his vision for Port of Dundee

The boss of Forth Ports will outline his vision for the future of the Port of Dundee at a Courier Business Briefing next month. […]…

3,000 tonnes is enough: Ulstein’s strategy for heavy lift in the 2020s

Speaking during session two of the Offshore Support Journal Subsea Conference in London, Ulstein Design & Solutions sales manager Nick Wessels said current demand…

New heavy duty cutter range from Enerpac

Enerpac has announced a new range of industrial cutters designed for metal bars, industrial chains, wire ropes, cables and metal tubes. The EB-Series Bar cutter…

SVP of Fieldwood joins VP’s from BP and Repsol on Reuters Events Speaker Line-up at Flagship Decommissioning Summit

HOUSTON, January 16 2020 – DecomWorld – part of Reuters Events- today announced additions to the industry leading speaker faculty for their flagship Decommissioning and…

WilPhoenix booked for well decommissioning

Offshore staff ABERDEEN, UK – Awilco Drilling has a letter of intent from an unnamed operator for use of the semisub WilPhoenix for a three-well…

Chrysaor hands in decommissioning plan for Jupiter fields in North Sea

Chrysaor has handed in decommissioning plans for the Jupiter series of gas fields in the UK North Sea. […] Click here to view original web…

Eni Charters Vroon PSV for Long-Term P&A Work in UK

Dutch offshore vessel owner Vroon Offshore Services has recently secured a charter deal with Eni for its platform supply vessel VOS Prelude. Vroon on Monday…

Oil & gas decom manager Sensalytx expands into Innovation Park office

Sensatlytx has taken up office space at James Gregory Centre in Aberdeen Innovation Park Oil and gas decommissioning specialist Sensalytx has moved into larger…

Fluor to Offer Engineering Services to Neptune’s Dutch Assets

Image: Bigstock Stork — a unit of Fluor Corporation ’s ( FLR – Free Report ) Diversified Services business — has received a four-year framework…

Better Abandonment Cost Estimates Yield Improved Project Valuations

Getty Images In developing a discovered resource, abandonment and decommissioning costs are only a part of the overall economic picture companies need to consider. However,…

Report: $550 Million Needed to Plug Abandoned California Oil, Gas Wells

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $500 million to plug thousands of so-called “orphan” wells drilled and abandoned…

Chrysaor hands in decom plan for southern North Sea platform

The Caister CM installation. Chrysaor has submitted its decommissioning plans for a southern North Sea platform to the UK Government. […] Click here to view…

Fred. Olsen Windcarrier Removes Perenco Gas Platforms

Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern has recently completed the offshore works related to decommissioning of two gas platforms for Perenco UK Limited. Fred.…

Oil and gas platform decommissioning: salvage, sink or save?

The decommissioning of aged North Sea oil and gas rigs is gathering pace, but it’s a big challenge. When offshore oil and gas exploration began…

Taqa submits decommissioning plan for 30-year-old North Sea platform

Taqa has put proposals forward to decommission the topsides of its Eider platform in the North Sea. […] Click here to view original web page…

Decommissioning disputes: who pays when the oil dries up?

A panel at GAR Live Singapore featuring an in-house counsel at Chevron discussed to what extent oil and gas companies should be held responsible for…

California’s offshore oil rigs could turn into windmills and dive hotels

A diver examines marine life at the Eureka oil platform about 8.5 miles offshore of Huntington Beach. While such oil rigs are largely despised by…

Equinor and partners approve plans to extend production from Statfjord field

Equinor and its partners in the Statfjord area have identified and approved plans to extend production from the field towards 2040. A new business plan…

Global Nuclear Decommissioning Market Professional Survey 2019 by Manufacturers, Regions, Types and Applications, Forecast to 2024

In this report, we analyze the Nuclear Decommissioning industry from two aspects. One part is about its production and the other part is about its…