The chairman of Lerwick Port Authority (LPA) has hailed the growing contribution of cruise ship visits as the organisation released its annual review, showing a steep drop in profits and a decline in turnover last year.
It’s a busy week for decommissioning with our London business briefing focusing on this emerging sector of the industry and we’re also anticipating the publication of the Oil and Gas Authority’s (OGA) 2018 UKCS Decommissioning Cost Estimate report.
In the year since the Brent Delta platform came ashore for dismantling, its past and present owners have found there isn’t much that can’t be reused or given away.
Energy giant Shell today handed in draft decommissioning plans for the Curlew field in the North Sea.
Oil and gas advisors DNV GL have warned of a knowledge loss “time bomb” in the sector.
Coverage of the Decom Offshore conference left me feeling very frustrated and dismayed. It was the same old, same old:
The oil and gas industry has been told the supply chain needs greater clarity on when decommissioning work will arrive in order to secure its future.
The head of decommissioning at the Oil and Gas Authority has said operators remain “very uncertain” over their costs for shutting down North Sea assets.
The head of decommissioning at an offshore industry regulator is “worried” some operators lack the appetite to deliver decommissioning.
A North Sea industry veteran was chosen for the top prize at an inaugural awards ceremony for the oil and gas decommissioning sector last night.
The North Sea supply chain is not interested in inflating the cost of decommissioning-related services, an industry chief has said.
Greater collaboration is required if Dundee is to achieve its aim of becoming an international hub for the offshore decommissioning sector.
The chief executive of Dundeecom is hoping to create a research and development network for entrepreneurs and academics to share decommissioning ideas.
Energy major BP has published jaw-dropping photos of the Miller platform being decommissioned.
A new centre of excellence will help the sector “transform tomorrow” by fixing the oil and gas decommissioning problems of today, an industry chief has said.
A multi-million pound centre tasked with making Aberdeen the focal point for oil and gas decommissioning expertise will be launched later this year.
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) said it is "exploring" removal options for the jackets and topsides of the Beatrice field.
Surviving a horror film and thriving in the fast-evolving and — most likely — frenetically-paced decommissioning industry have more in common than meets the eye.
The £60billion North Sea decommissioning market is on the cusp of its first major cycle, a new report said.
A new harbour master has taken the helm at the ports of Dundee, Methil and Kirkcaldy.
The Scottish Government will split £1.5million between six projects in an effort to secure more North Sea oil and gas decommissioning work for the country.
The Scottish Government will offer six projects a share of £1.5million as part of its Decommissioning Challenge Fund.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) announced today that it has signed a three-month contract with Premier Oil to conduct a decommissioning study of the PB3 PowerBuoy in the North Sea.
Two Chinese heavy lift transport ships remain anchored off Nairn as they await a decision on whether they can remove a number of rigs from Cromarty Firth.
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) has confirmed plans to permanently remove workers from a North Sea complex as it moves closer to decommissioning.