Offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum Decom North Sea (Decom) held its first annual meeting in Aberdeen yesterday and elected seven new directors.
The supply-chain body revealed that it now had 82 members and had also revised its target number from 70 to 100 members by the year-end.
Decom chairman Murdo MacIver, who is director of Peterson SBS, thanked directors and members for their time and support and urged other companies to join the body to ensure the UK supply chain benefited from the £25-£30billion worth of decommissioning work forecast for the North Sea over the coming decades.
Chief executive Brian Nixon said: “We are delighted that the members cover all sizes of companies and represent the breadth of the supply chain.
“At the moment, membership is a bit skewed in favour of Scotland – which is really to be expected because of where clusters of companies are located – but we have had encouraging interest from England and the Continent.
“We have been overwhelmed by the reception we have had from industry and believe we are well on track to reach 200 members by the end of 2011 and that will make us genuinely representative of the supply chain.”
New directors are BP decommissioning vice-president Gunther Newcombe, Halliburton director and country manager for project-management services Tom Leeson, Marine Subsea managing director Alasdair Cowie, Amec head of decommissioning Roy Aspden, BIS Salamis (M&I) operations director Nigel Lees, Proserv Offshore vice-president of group business development David Dent and Eddie Grant, managing director of Bluegrass Decommissioning Services.
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