Successful removal of platforms weighing upwards of 30,000 tonnes is taking the decommissioning industry to new levels of high-tech excellence with projects around the UK coastal shelf, but that does not reduce the challenge.
Winners of the OEUK Awards for Excellence in Decommissioning have been announced, with Spirit Energy and Utility ROV services taking top prizes.
Aberdeen Harbour has “hidden” its decommissioning credentials for too long and needs to raise its profile in the sector to secure a bigger share of the market, one of its bosses said yesterday.
An EnQuest boss said today that treating some of its platforms like "Airbnbs" was helping the firm prepare a northern North Sea neighbour for up-manning.
The rise of specialist decommissioning firms could give the UK the edge in a global oilfield dismantling market worth £67 billion over the next decade, a new report said.
Joint hosts Decom North Sea and OGUK have published the agenda for the tenth Offshore Decommissioning Conference, to be held in St Andrews, November 25-27 .
The UK Government will be lumbered with liability for oil fields as operators transform or disappear completely over the coming decades, an industry commentator has said.
Challenges around decommissioning for the oil and gas sector will be addressed at a major event later this month.
A UK decommissioning chief has said the rigs-to-reefs concept is a non-starter in British waters.
Industry body Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) said today that rules governing offshore decommissioning were "right, at this point in time".
Industry body Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) revealed today that North Sea companies are keeping a lid on well decommissioning costs.
Supply chain companies will have a chance to promote themselves in poster format at next month’s Offshore Decommissioning Conference in St Andrews.
Amec Foster Wheeler is ‘uniquely placed’ for decommissioning work in the North Sea oil and gas industry thanks to its experience in the nuclear sector, an international conference heard today.
BAFTA-nominated geologist and TV presenter Iain Stewart will deliver the keynote speech at this year’s Offshore Decommissioning Conference, organisers said yesterday. The two-day event, which has already sold out, will focus on the importance of ensuring decommissioning is as efficient as possible and will draw from the lessons learned by other sectors, including nuclear energy.
The head of industry trade body Oil and Gas UK will address the Offshore Decommissioning Conference held in Scotland later this year.
THE multibillion-pound decommissioning market has been a long time coming, but it will be here for the long term.