Energy Voice ran two articles last week highlighting onshore decommissioning plans for the Port of Dundee and Dales Voe. Once again this left me questioning where all this onshore decommissioning activity is going to coming from. Where is the business case that supports the large number of ports claiming decommissioning is a significant opportunity?
ConocoPhillips and Centrica have submitted plans for decommissioning a raft of southern North Sea platforms to the UK Government.
Centrica has enlisted Babcock International to help it plan the decommissioning of the Rough 47/8A platforms and infrastructure in the southern North Sea.
Any industrial or societal endeavor should be subject to a sustainability assessment and decommissioning is no different. The key metrics for the UK’s sustainable future are contained within the Government’s Sustainability Indicator reports published by the Department of Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). There are 35 topics. They are categorised under the three pillars of sustainability; people, planet and profit.
Wood Group’s chief executive has said that decommissioning is a “double-edged sword” for the oil industry.
Reforming the decommissioning tax relief system would create a “sweet spot” for the UK Government and the oil and gas sector, an industry expert has said.
A UK Treasury minister has called for North Sea industry to seize the opportunity to become a pioneer in offshore decommissioning.
Scotland will be at the forefront of the future of oil and gas, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury will claim today as Offshore Europe gets under way in Aberdeen today.
North Sea decommissioning start-up Well-Safe Solutions today announced two more senior appointments and revealed where it will be based.
North Sea companies have been exemplary in their approach to decommissioning duties, the head of the UK oil and gas industry’s regulator has said.
Lerwick Harbour will host a string of key players today as it sets out it plans to become a "decommissioning centre of excellence".
Fledgling North Sea decommissioning firm Well-Safe Solutions has continued its early momentum with the appointment of two new directors.
Wood Group’s boss said yesterday that the firm was hoping to do business with new entrants to the North Sea.
New Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has said decommissioning could become a “major industry” in the North Sea and create thousands of jobs – if it’s done properly.
Norwegian fabrication firm Kvaerner will scrap the Nyhamna facility's subsea compression pilot for Shell.
The Buchan Alpha oil production vessel has been towed to the north-east of Lerwick Harbour ahead of scrapping.
Taqa's UK operation has a $1billion contingency plan for North Sea decommissioning.
A group of companies say the “stars are aligning” for the development of a new single-lift construction vessel (SLCV) which could take a chunk out of North Sea decommissioning costs.
A fledgling North Sea decommissioning firm has moved quickly to complete its first acquisition.
RockRose Energy’s boss has said he wants to turn the North Sea player into a firm capable of developing assets, rather than just buying up non-operated interests.
A group of North Sea stalwarts have set up a business which will take the sting out of subsea well decommissioning costs – and create hundreds of jobs.
Decommissioning will be a key topic at SPE Offshore Europe 2017, with a range of speakers announced and a new zone dedicated to the sector at the event.
An Orkney councillor has said it would be a travesty if Orkney missed out on North Sea decommissioning work.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has told the new north-east Tory MPs he wants to see Aberdeen and the wider region as “a centre of excellence for decommissioning”.
The Oil and Gas Authority's director of operations is taking on more work as the North Sea regulator fills in for a vacant post.