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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Maersk Invincible – Credit: Maersk Drilling Norwegian oil company Aker BP has secured consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to use the Maersk Invincible…
Offshore staff ABERDEEN, UK – Petrofac’s Engineering & Production Services division has started a well decommissioning contract for the Rubie and Renee fields in 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…
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 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…
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; 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 Under provincial law, oil and gas companies are responsible for plugging…
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…
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…
Sensatlytx has taken up office space at James Gregory Centre in Aberdeen Innovation Park Oil and gas decommissioning specialist Sensalytx has moved into larger…
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…
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…