The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating after workers at a yard in Seaton Carew flagged a series of severe incidents during upgrade work on a Valaris rig.
A civil engineering company has been sentenced after a worker suffered life-threatening injuries while working to decommission a former North Sea oil and gas installation.
Global pipe manufacturer SeAH Wind will build an XXL offshore wind monopile factory in Teesside, abandoning plans to establish the facility at an Able UK site on the Humber.
The “vast majority” of UK offshore oil infrastructure will be decommissioned in Britain despite competition from Norwegian yards for the biggest jobs, a market expert claimed.
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.
Able UK has a message for other British ports considering a big financial outlay on decommissioning facilities: think long and hard before you press the button.