Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum, is driving forward an initiative aimed at developing standard procedures for infrastructure removal projects.
Chief executive Brian Nixon said that with many near-future oil and gas decommissioning projects in the North Sea to be the first undertaken by their respective operators, each was interpreting the requirements for the plans in their own way. With documents having ranged from 180 to 430 pages, this was “clearly inefficient”.
DNS is holding a workshop with its member firms next Thursday (January 12) in the Palm Court Hotel, in Aberdeen, to establish how best to develop a standard template for the documents.