Repsol Sinopec strikes decommissioniong deal for 40-year-old Nigg Oil Terminal
Aberdeen-based Repsol Sinopec has signed a deal with Liberty Industrial for the decontamination, demolition and site remediation of Nigg Oil Terminal.
Aberdeen-based Repsol Sinopec has signed a deal with Liberty Industrial for the decontamination, demolition and site remediation of Nigg Oil Terminal.
A £118,000 a year decom job is up for grabs at the North Sea industry regulator, the NSTA, after a reshuffle of its top team.
A pair of North Sea firms are preparing belated Christmas presents for the supply chain, in the form of decommissioning contracts.
Work is ongoing to pull apart a UK art exhibition, founded on a decommissioned North Sea gas platform.
The UK will spend billions removing oil and gas assets over the next decade, and billions more installing offshore windfarms – so why doesn’t it have a heavy lift business to capitalise on it?
The decommissioning boss at Wood said she “rarely” sees local content requirements for UK projects, despite an impending industry target on the issue.
More than 2,000 North Sea wells are poised to be decommissioned over the next decade, an average of just shy of four a week.
The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has set a new cost target for offshore decommissioning – as the original goal looks set to be missed.
TAQA and Spirit Energy are taking fellow North Sea firm Viaro Energy to court to recover costs linked to decommissioning the Brae oilfield.
The UK is facing opposition from several European nations for its support of Fairfield Energy's plan to leave the huge legs of the Dunlin oilfield in the North Sea.
There is so much work to be done over the next 10 years in decommissioning that executing it could be a bigger concern than the supply chain having to chase it.
Work to break up and recycle a massive vessel, which served the UK North Sea for more than 20 years, has begun in Norway.
After a tough few years for Decom North Sea (DNS), a new leadership team is now ready to give the organisation some deserved “love and attention”.
A reluctance to take a bet on the unknown; it’s a frequent gripe levelled at North Sea operators when it comes to decommissioning.
Workers appear to have caught a glimpse of a North Sea oil rig being broken up at a yard in Turkey.
“In the early 2030s we will have probably removed all of the assets we have operating at the moment,” says David Wilson, decommissioning and projects director at TAQA (ADX: TAQA).
Fresh questions have risen on whether Shell will be allowed to leave the huge legs of the Brent field in the North Sea.
The offshore wind sector must do more to embed sustainable practices - particularly when it comes to decommissioning, according to a leading academic.
An FPSO for the former BP Foinaven field is now leaving Scottish shores, with residents capturing footage of the ship departing.
A new initiative aimed at supporting the career development of people moving into late life and decommissioning has been launched.
Perenco has filed decommissioning programmes for two platforms serving the Leman field, but hints at a potential re-use opportunity for one installation.
Allseas has won the contract to remove the topsides of the 45-year-old EnQuest (LON: ENQ) Heather platform in the North Sea.
A veteran of BG Group and Aker Solutions has been named as the new general manager of Decom Engineering in Aberdeen.
Decommissioning-focused industry body Decom North Sea (DNS) has officially announced the appointment of a new leadership team.
The UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has sent an autonomous submarine vessel (AUV) to monitor decommissioned North Sea fields as part of a pioneering marine trial.