The remains of the Brae Bravo platform, North Sea. Regulators have approved TAQA’s plans to remove a section of the remaining jacket structure at Brae…
On behalf of their client Fairfield Energy Limited, AF Offshore Decom has announced that the significant offshore preparation and removal campaigns for the Dunlin Alpha…
Clearwell Technology director Bruce Cardno Energy technology start-up Clearwell Technology has undertaken a feasibility testing programme for a new tool that could halve the costs…
HOUSTON, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Promethean Decommissioning Company (PDC), a pure-play Decommissioning Operator, and Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy…
CNR International scoops the “Excellence in Collaboration” award. The best and brightest in the industry were celebrated at the Decom North Sea Awards last night.…
Over the past decade, a subsea provider has been growing its decommissioning capabilities across the North Sea. In a project for Repsol Sinopec Resources, it…
One Alliance’s liftboats – Credit; Alliance Offshore U.S.-based offshore oil and gas services firm Helix Energy Solutions Group is set to buy equity interests of…
Norwegian shipping company Siem Offshore and offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions Group have entered into an agreement for the well intervention vessels Siem…
Norway’s Equinor has closed down the Veslefrikk oil and gas field in the Norwegian section of the North Sea, ahead of the project’s decommissioning, the…
Achieving the UK Government’s target to be net-zero by 2050 will require a collaborative approach from stakeholders right across the energy industry. With increasing political…
James Fisher has launched James Fisher Decommissioning (JF Decom), its new business line which will support the decommissioning needs of customers in the renewables and…
Petrojarl Foinaven – Credit: andrew blagg/MarineTraffic.com British oil major BP has filed a decommissioning plan for the removal of the Petrojarl Foinaven FPSO and the…
Dutch offshore contractor Heerema Marine Contractors has been awarded a decommissioning contract by DNO for the integrated engineering, preparation, removal, and disposal (EPRD) of the…
The Valaris Norway Valaris has announced a clutch of contract awards, including decommissioning work with Centrica in the UK. A six-well plug and abandonment deal…
Repsol Sinopec’s Fulmar installation North Sea operator Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) is expected to put a major decommissioning contract for its Fulmar field out…
FMS managing director Steven Brown. Supplied by First Marine Solutions First Marine Solutions (FMS) has announced the award of a seven-figure consultancy contract to support…
Maersk Supply Service Forza subsea support vessel. Supplied by Maersk Supply Service Date; Unknown Neptune Energy has awarded Maersk Supply Service (MSS) a contract for…
UK-based operator Neptune Energy has returned to the remaining decommissioning work on its Juliet gas field in the UK southern North Sea, awarding a contract…
Heerema removes Ithaca’s Jacky platform in 2021. Ithaca Energy has submitted draft plans for the decommissioning of subsea infrastructure at the Fionn and Causeway fields…
Lee Hanlon, CEO of CessCon Decom speaking at the OGUK St Andews decommissioning conference. The chief executive of CessCon Decom has warned that a potential…
The semi-submersible crane vessel Thialf has removed Shell’s Goldeneye wellhead platform located in the UK North Sea. The giant semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf owned…
The Net Zero Technology Centre has launched an industry collaboration initiative that will accelerate the pace at which well P&A technology is qualified and commercialised…
Planning for the decommissioning of a North Sea field which has exceeded its expected life sevenfold is now underway. A decommissioning programme will be submitted…
The Curlew arriving in Dundee almost exactly a year ago. Oil giant Shell has confirmed all decommissioning work on the Curlew floating production vessel (FPSO)…
Crowley’s Ocean class tug Ocean Wind was the lead tug for the tow of decommissioned TLP. Showcasing its capability and versatility in providing total lifecycle…
Offshore staff RIJSWIJK, the Netherlands – Wintershall Noordzee , a joint venture between Wintershall Dea and Gazprom EP International, has started a decommissioning campaign in…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In an analysis of over 19,500 orphaned oil and gas wells across the United States, scholars at Resources for the Future…
Lerwick Harbour is the principal commercial port for Shetland and a key component in the islands’ economy The future of Scotland’s Green Ports is inextricably…
Graeme Fergusson, managing director, Fairfield Decom Integrated decommissioning firm Fairfield Decom has confirmed it has ceased trading with immediate effect. In a statement, the company’s…
Apache’s Beryl Alpha platform. Exxon Mobil has lost out in a High Court battle against Apache with “far reaching implications” for North Sea decommissioning. The…
Image courtesy Dynasty Energy Services Ardyne, the Aberdeen and Norway-based fishing, milling and casing recovery provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Dynasty Energy Services,…
Credit: kithanlea/AdobeStock Denmark-based Maersk Decom said Tuesday it has designed a free cost calculating tool for benchmarking decommissioning projects in the North Sea. “Maersk Decom’s…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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