Well Decommissioning

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…