Well Decommissioning

Testing begins for new tool to reduce oil and gas decommissioning costs

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…

PROMETHEAN DECOMMISSIONING ALLIANCE WITH PETROFAC BEGINS DECOMMISSIONING OPERATIONS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO

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…

Helix Energy Solutions to Buy Alliance Companies to Boost Presence in Gulf of Mexico Decommissioning Space

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…

Siem Offshore and Helix extend well intervention vessels deal

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…

Valaris wins UK decom work with Centrica amid clutch of contracts

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 to dish out major wells contract for Fulmar decommissioning

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…

First Marine wins multi-million contract with Well-Safe

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…

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…

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…

Aberdeen’s Ardyne extends well decommissioning technology partnership with Equinor

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…

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,…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

New technologies speed up plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells

Decommissioning, Plug, Abandonment, GlobalData With decommissioning being an increasingly important field for oil and gas operators, companies have invested significantly in technologies that could reduce…

New technologies speed up plug and abandonment of oil and gas wells

With decommissioning being an increasingly important field for oil and gas operators, companies have invested significantly in technologies that could…