Decommissioning
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July 26, 2022
Water management and risk prevention specialist OWM Group has been awarded a two-year framework agreement to provide potable water management products and services to decommissioning specialists Well-Safe Solutions.
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December 04, 2019
The workscope involved multiple campaigns comprising of preparation, removals of subsea infrastructure and final surveys, along with the management of all recovered waste for processing and safe disposal.
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November 07, 2019
“Over $26 billion is to be spent on UK decommissioning by 2030,” said Paul Main, a Wood Mackenzie Ltd. analyst focused on the upstream supply chain. By that time, companies will be spending more on removing redundant oil and gas facilities than developing new fields, he said.
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November 04, 2019
Viewport3 is entering the decom market after securing two pre-removal scanning contracts for North Sea projects with two major operators.
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October 09, 2019
Universal Subsea's patent-pending Defender subsea isolation cap was successfully installed to the Bulleit subsea well, operated by Talos in the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of 1,300 feet.
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October 01, 2019
The decommissioning project comprises seven offshore gas platforms located approximately 135 nautical miles east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on the edge of the Scotian Shelf.
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September 02, 2019
Maersk Decom, together with Maersk Supply Service, is project managing the removal, recycling and waste management of subsea infrastructure for Perenco’s Thames field in the UK North Sea.
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August 27, 2019
Stuart Martin is a 35-year veteran of the upstream sector. With Ardent, his career has now come full circle from commissioning assets in the early 1980s to decommissioning the same assets now.
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August 27, 2019
The agreement includes provision of Well Operator and Well Engineering Project Management services for four wells within the Rubie and Renee fields, 200 km north east of Aberdeen.
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August 16, 2019
Well-Safe Solutions has awarded two multi-million-pound contracts to continue the transformation of the Well-Safe Guardian, the decommissioning company’s first asset, into a bespoke plug and abandonment unit.
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July 15, 2019
The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland is one step closer to becoming a center of excellence for recycling offshore structures from the North Sea with the arrival of two new installations for decommissioning by strategic partners Veolia and Peterson.
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June 20, 2019
Aker BP selected Optime Subsea as a provider of well access system and -services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
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June 20, 2019
A pioneering new method of pressure testing suspended mudline wells from a vessel, prior to P&A activity, developed by Unity, is set to deliver improved safety and cost savings following a successful project for Spirit Energy.
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June 12, 2019
Well-Safe Solutions today announced the award of a major contract to decommission up to 21 wells on Schooner and Ketch fields in the UKCS, operated by DNO North Sea (ROGB) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of DNO ASA.
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May 24, 2019
The world’s biggest semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) is set to blaze a trail when it enters into service in the coming months, armed with the strongest pair of revolving cranes for offshore oil, gas and renewable energy installation and decommissioning jobs.
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May 16, 2019
A new cost-reducing, first of its kind well abandonment tool developed by Aberdeen-headquartered Deep Casing Tools has gone from concept to offshore trial with Equinor in just nine months.
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May 02, 2019
The Statfjord A platform in the North Sea will shut down production in 2022, 43 years after first oil. This more than doubles the expected lifetime of the platform. Now the contract for removal and disposal of the topside has been signed, and the topside will be demolished at Stord – where it was built in the 1970s.
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April 02, 2019
Petrofac has been appointed well operator by Tullow Oil for the next phase of its Thames Decommissioning Project, following the award of a contract worth around $16 million.
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April 01, 2019
A concept study and Front End Engineering Design (FEED) project carried out by Xodus Group has determined that a North Sea operator will save up to $77.5 million (£59 million) by adopting a Not Normally Attended (NNA) status ahead of decommissioning the field.
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March 18, 2019
Jumbo has been awarded an offshore decommissioning project in the North Sea by TAQA Energy BV, involving the removal, transportation and disposal of three subsea protection domes and piles.
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March 04, 2019
International energy consultancy Xodus Group has expanded its decommissioning offering with the appointment of its first well decommissioning manager.
