Oil and Gas Decommissioning

Ithaca submits Fionn and Causeway decommissioning plans

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…

‘Sorry guys, we’re full’: CessCon predicts onshore decom ‘bottleneck’

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…

Heerema’s Thialf Vessel Removes Goldeneye Topside And Jacket

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…

Net Zero Technology Centre launches well P&A collaboration initiative

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…

Decommissioning programme submitted for North Sea field

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…

Decommissioning of Curlew suspended following ‘incident’

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)…

VIDEO: Heerema Removes Topside from TAQA’s Brae Bravo Platform

Credit. TAQA Oil and gas firm TAQA said Friday that Heerema Marine Contractors had successfully removed the topside of its Brae Bravo platform in the…

Northern Irish firm Decom Engineering to expand operations with new Aberdeen base

Crowley tugs assist in TLP decommissioning

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…

Wintershall Noordzee launches 18-month North Sea decommissioning program

Offshore staff RIJSWIJK, the Netherlands – Wintershall Noordzee , a joint venture between Wintershall Dea and Gazprom EP International, has started a decommissioning campaign in…

New study reveals key factors for estimating costs to plug abandoned oil and gas wells

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…

UK govt oil revenues fall 70% as price crash and decommissioning take effect

Every port should harbour aspirations for real change

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…

Aberdeen’s Ardyne extends well decommissioning technology partnership with Equinor

Integrated decommissioning firm Fairfield Decom has confirmed it has ceased trading with immediate effect.

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…

Taqa ‘poised for significant decommissioning activity’

Exxon loses to Apache in High Court battle on £100m decommissioning bill

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…

Cookstown engineering firm Decom eyes private equity backed growth drive

Decom’s Sean Conway, Matthew Drumm and Nick McNally. A CO Tyrone engineering firm has said it will create 10 jobs over the next 12 to…

Cluster of North Sea decommissioning contracts on the way

DECOM: Ardyne, Dynasty Energy Services Team on P&A Efficiencies

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,…

Maersk Decom Launches Free Offshore Decommissioning Cost Calculator

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…

World’s largest construction vessel, Pioneer Spirit, off East Lothian coastline

The Iron Lady makes her way along the River Forth. ..Picture: Peter Devlin. A REMARKABLE marine operation has taken place off the coast of East…

Pioneering Spirit: Largest construction vessel in world captured on camera during major operation in Forth

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…

Petronas Unit Awards Celtic Sea Decom Contract

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 Investment Adds Nitrogen Pumps To Rental Offering

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 submits decommissioning plans for North Sea platform

Aker Solutions Awarded Work to Recycle Offshore Platforms in Norway

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…

Equinor awards contracts for North Sea decommissioning work

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,…

World’s largest ship gets lifting-system upgrade

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…

Supply chain webinar launches new decommissioning framework contract

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…

Well Plugging Starts in Pioneering North Sea Field

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 Focused on Increasing Safety in Offshore Decommissioning

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…

California Decommissioning Project Hits Oil Well Abandonment Milestone

(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 secured decommissioning contract with PTTEP in Australia

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,…

Harbour is quay to a new era

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…

CNR International seeks contractor partner for mass North Sea decommissioning campaign

Decommissioning projects drive utilisation of heavy-lift fleet

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…

Ørsted-led consortium researching blade decommissioning

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…

The new use for abandoned oil rigs

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 Will Repurpose Oil Rigs To Build A Starship Spaceport At Sea

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…

Teekay’s Banff FPSO to be decommissioned in Denmark

Long-awaited UK Government decommissioning paper lacks clarity on key issues

Pioneering Spirit to Remove Two Morecambe Bay Platforms

(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…

Spirit Energy gas platforms to be dismantled in Fife

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 positions itself for decommissioning work

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 hands in decom plans, but offshore work years away

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…

OGA launches online resource to help kick-start decommissioning campaigns

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…

North Sea operators shelve half a billion pounds of decommissioning spend: OGUK

Petronas subsidiary says decommissioning gas fields offshore Ireland

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…

AGR Starts Decom Works on Kinsale Field Offshore Ireland

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…

New tool for slashing well decom costs aces first live test in North Sea

HMRC boosts projected decommissioning tax relief for oil firms by £1.1billion

Decom timing frustrations forcing North Sea firms to look overseas

Well decommissioning campaigns a ‘massive opportunity’, OGA says

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…

Continuing development of decommissioning at Lerwick

Well-Safe secures further £26m to fund growth

Versabar gears up for another crack at North Sea market

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…

OGUK Launches Digital Decom Conference

Industry body Oil & Gas UK is launching its first ever virtual decommissioning conference. Industry body Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) has revealed that it…

Enpro Subsea enables safe removal of ‘attic’ oil from Brent Bravo’s concrete cells

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 hints at plans to extend dry dock

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…

New artificial reef off Grand Isle sets a record

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 hands in Balmoral decommissioning plans

Chevron kicks off Thai decommissioning drive

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 hands in Balmoral decommissioning plans

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…