Power outage on Taqa North Sea platform
Work is underway to restore power to a North Sea platform after an outage in the early hours of Thursday morning, which saw a group of workers flown ashore.
Work is underway to restore power to a North Sea platform after an outage in the early hours of Thursday morning, which saw a group of workers flown ashore.
“In the early 2030s we will have probably removed all of the assets we have operating at the moment,” says David Wilson, decommissioning and projects director at TAQA (ADX: TAQA).
Wood, the Aberdeen-headquartered energy services firm, has landed a five-year contract extension to its work on Taqa assets in the UK North Sea.
Taqa has taken a £339million write-down in the value of its North Sea assets as a result of Covid-19 and the oil downturn.
Oil and gas firm Taqa has handed in decommissioning plans for two of its northern North Sea platforms to the UK Government.
Taqa’s European boss has insisted the company is “relentlessly” focused on safe and reliable operations despite a crew member sustaining a minor injury on a North Sea platform last month.
Energy logistics provider Peterson has secured a deal with operator TAQA to support the Middle East company's North-Sea assets.