Many, including David Collins and Brian Finch, caught the event on camera when the Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit travelled across the Forth to transfer its cargo…
A unit of Petronas has awarded HydraWell a multi-year contract to support a decommissioning project. PHOTO SOURCE: HydraWell Petronas (KLSE: PETGAS) subsidiary PSE Kinsale Energy…
Hiretech Limited is further expanding its rental fleet offering with the addition of two 180k Zone 2 nitrogen pumping unitsas part of a £1million CAPEX…
© Alpha Petroleum Alpha Petroleum has handed in decommissioning plans for its Wenlock platform in the North Sea. A normally unmanned installation was put in…
March 18, 2021 – Aker Solutions has signed a sizeable(1) letter of intent with Heerema Marine Contractors for decommissioning work related to the Heimdal and…
The Veslefrikk platform has been operating since 1989 (source: Equinor/Øyvind Hagen) Norwegian energy company Equinor has awarded Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) contracts for removal,…
A new jacket-lifting system is being installed on the stern of Pioneering Spirit to enhance its lifting capability (source: Allseas) Allseas will upgrade the heavy-lift…
The webinar will be held next month and is part of the company’s ongoing engagement with the supply chain as it drives forward its decommissioning…
Plugging operations began last month in conjunction with the planned shutdown of the Veslefrikk field. PHOTO SOURCE: Øyvind Hagen/Equinor Plugging operations began last month in…
Reflex Marine continue to share knowledge and improve standards of safety across the offshore industry with their series of live webinars. In February, they explore…
(Source: California State Lands Commission) Your browser does not support the audio element. The state of California recently hit a milestone in a decommissioning project…
Petrofac Offshore engineering specialist Petrofac has secured a well project management contract with PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) for operations in Australia. Under the contract,…
Work underway, above, on the new harbour. It will be the largest berthage port in Scotland, able to accommodate vessels of up to 1000ft in…
© Kishorn Port Subsea work on Banff and Kyle, formerly served by the Petrojarl Banff (pictured) is also expected to come to market this year.…
Pioneering Spirit employs single-lift technology to facilitate platform removals (source: Allseas) Decommissioning activity was brisk in 2020, led by offshore infrastructure removals in the North…
The new DecomBlades consortium will aim to make Denmark a ‘frontrunner’ in establishing recycling solutions within the wind industry Blade manufacturer LM Wind Power is…
As offshore oil and gas platforms come to the end of their working lives, the remarkable ecosystems beneath the waves come into their own. T…
SpaceX is planning to use oil rigs to build a Starship Spaceport at sea in South Texas. Tesmanian reminded its readers the goal of SpaceX…
© Courtesy submitted by Kishorn Port The Banff FPSO arriving at Kishorn Port, in September. Teekay’s Banff floating production, offloading and storage vessel (FPSO) will…
© Courtesy Rory Gillies/Shetland F The Ninian Northern arriving in Lerwick for decom work last year. A long-awaited UK Government paper into oil and gas…
(Photo: Spirit Energy) Allseas’ giant heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit will remove the DP3 and DP4 platforms in Morecambe Bay off the U.K. for independent…
An artist’s impression of CessCon Decom’s facility in Energy Park Fife. A Scottish firm has clinched its maiden contract for dismantling offshore platforms at a…
MONTROSE Port has strengthened its case for picking up work linked to oil and gas decommissioning activity in the North Sea, writes Scott Wright. The…
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) has handed in decommissioning programmes for the Fulmar and Auk North fields to the UK Government. But well plugging and…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has provided one centralised location for well data related to decommissioning. The data, which is already publicly available, has…
© Able UK Brent Alpha arriving at Able UK’s Seaton port in Teesside earlier this year for dismantling. North Sea operators have shelved more than…
KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): Petroliam Nasional Bhd’s (Petronas) wholly-owned subsidiary PSE Kinsale Energy Ltd is decommissioning its gas fields in the Kinsale Area in the…
Kinsale Bravo – Image Credit: PSE Kinsale Energy (File Photo) Energy services company AGR has started decommissioning operations of Ireland’s first indigenous gas wells in…
© Supplied by isol8 Andrew Louden, CEO of isol8. An Aberdeen start-up firm’s technology for slashing oil well decommissioning costs has passed its first North…
© Allseas Removal of the CNR Ninian Northern platform earlier this year. CNR is among the firms with the largest decom bills through to 2030.…
© Able UK Brent Alpha arriving at Able UK’s Seaton port in Teesside for dismantling. Frustrated by uncertainty around project schedules offshore UK, North Sea…
Pauline Innes, head of decommissioning at the Oil and Gas Authority. Adopting a campaign approach to well decommissioning in the UK North Sea is the…
© Courtesy Rory Gillies/Shetland F Ninian Northern arriving at Dales Voe, Lerwick, where ongoing development of deep-water infrastructure enables support for larger-scale decommissioning projects in…
© Supplied by Submitted pic Well-Safe Protector. Oil and gas decommissioning firm Well-Safe Solutions has secured a £26 million investment to fund the next phase…
In 2012, Versabar’s VB 10,000 lift system installed a 3,500-ton refurbished platform in the first installation operation the system has performed. In 2011 the VB…
Industry body Oil & Gas UK is launching its first ever virtual decommissioning conference. Industry body Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) has revealed that it…
Hunting Energy Services, Subsea Technologies division supporting DeepOcean has successfully completed another campaign in the North Sea using Enpro Subsea’s Field Decommissioning (F-Decom) system. The…
Kishorn Port. Kishorn port has raised hopes of a jobs boost after it signalled plans to extend its dry dock to cater to demand for…
The tallest oil platform ever converted into an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico is now in place about 50 miles southeast of Grand…
© Premier Oil/ Linkedin Premier Oil will end production at its Balmoral Area in October. Pic: Premier Oil/Linkedin Premier Oil has handed in decommissioning plans…
US supermajor Chevron has launched a significant offshore decommissioning exercise in Thailand comprising dozens of offshore platforms and subsea pipelines, as the decommissioning sector gathers…
© Premier Oil/ Linkedin Premier Oil will end production at its Balmoral Area in October. Pic: Premier Oil/Linkedin Premier Oil has handed in decommissioning plans…
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…
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…
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…
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 Resources UK (RSRUK) has decided to stop production on its Tartan Alpha installation after nearly 40 years, putting some jobs at risk. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Natural defences: mangroves, such as this one in the Caribbean, help to protect coastlines against storm surges © Getty Images As global awareness of the…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 the effects of oil platform decommissioning on fish communities Biologists and fishermen alike know that offshore oil platforms function as de facto…
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…
Maersk Invincible – Credit: Maersk Drilling Norwegian oil company Aker BP has secured consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to use the Maersk Invincible…
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…
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…
Offshore staff ABERDEEN, UK – Petrofac’s Engineering & Production Services division has started a well decommissioning contract for the Rubie and Renee fields in the…
Drone delivering a package to the Pioneering Spirit vessel – Credit: Port of Rotterdam, Allseas’ giant Pioneering Spirit offshore construction and decommissioning vessel last week…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Oil and Gas Authority (“ the OGA ”) has launched a consultation into its proposed updated Maximising Economic Recovery Strategy ( “the Strategy” ),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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%…
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…
Credit: Repsol Sinopec UK oil and gas operator Repsol Sinopec has filed a draft decommissioning plan for subsea infrastructure at Buchan & Hannay fields in…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Ion Science is highlighting the suitability of its ergonomically designed Mercury Vapour Indicator (MVI) for rapid…
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…
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…
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…
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…
