Onshore decommissioning – how insurers and lawyers weigh up risk
After many years of rhetoric, promise and disappointment, the long-awaited decommissioning boom appears to gathering pace.
After many years of rhetoric, promise and disappointment, the long-awaited decommissioning boom appears to gathering pace.
Tax repayments related to losses incurred by removing North Sea assets will not be touched by the energy profits levy.
Decom Engineering has secured further contracts across the globe after its chopsaw tool successfully cut its teeth during trials at the National Hyperbaric Centre in Aberdeen.
“We've got to learn from what others have gone through, but at the same time pass on our own learnings to other industries,” says Offshore Energies UK’s (OEUK) new safety boss Mark Wilson.
New research has warned that high oil prices, coupled with the UK Government’s windfall tax, could “pose a threat” to North Sea decommissioning targets.
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK (RSRUK) has appointed a new vice president for decommissioning and energy transition.
Taqa has celebrated completion of a major decommissioning project at the Brae field in the North Sea.
Decommissioning specialist Well-Safe Solutions has raised the cash needed to fund the purchase of its third rig.
Work has resumed on a huge decommissioning campaign at the Taqa-operated Brae field in the North Sea
Well-Safe Solutions has won a contract with operator Ithaca Energy to plug and abandon (P&A) a handful of southern North Sea wells.
Aberdeen-headquartered oilfield services firm Plexus Holdings has won a £500,000 order from Oceaneering.
An oil and gas industry leader has highlighted an initiative to use a decommissioned platform as an art installation, asking ‘why isn’t this happening in Aberdeen?’
A project to remove an “eyesore” from the Cromarty Firth has stalled, having been plagued by business disputes and a flurry of health and safety orders.
The Foinaven FPSO is leaving the namesake BP oilfield for Hunterston Port - but vessel owner Teekay has kept schtum on its final decom location.
Heerema has released a gallery of images showing the lift and removal of the Dunlin platform in the North Sea.
Regulators have approved TAQA’s plans to remove a section of the remaining jacket structure at Brae Bravo, following a successful topsides decommissioning campaign last year.
AF Decom has reported that all preparation and removal works have now been completed at the Dunlin Alpha platform, as it awaits removal by the Sleipnir heavy lift vessel (HLV).
The Sleipnir heavy lift vessel is back at the Dunlin platform, this time to kick off the main decommissioning work.
The world’s largest offshore construction ship has delivered the 8,500-tonne Ninian Northern platform jacket for decommissioning in Shetland.
The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) has launched £2 million project to construct a new, “world-leading” test facility for the plugging and abandonment (P&A) of oil and gas wells.
Energy services giant Petrofac (LON: PFC) is in discussions to bring an FPSO from the “other side of the world” to Europe for breaking up.
Maersk Decom has confirmed it will close its doors, following the handover of its sole remaining decommissioning contract to Petrofac.
The industry regulator is in the process of drawing up a new decommissioning bill reduction target for North Sea operators.
The best and brightest in the industry were celebrated at the Decom North Sea Awards last night.
Offshore contractor Allseas has released new footage showing the removal of the Ninian Northern jacket by its Pioneering Spirit vessel.