10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • Hiretech invests in decommissioning sector

    20 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects

    Hiretech Limited has taken delivery of newly built subsea shears and hydraulic grabs as part of a recent GBP 600k investment in decommissioning equipment. Hiretech’s Decommissioning and Subsea Business Development manager, Duncan Duthie, said: “We were keen to pinpoint the correct target for our investment, and collaborated with our clients and the manufacturer to go […]

  • OEEC: Decommissioning – we are in it together

    26 October 2016

    During the Technical Session titled ‘Decommissioning: Status and Regulations’ at Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC), four speakers looked at different facets of this relatively new business. As we all know the decommissioning of offshore installations is both a cost burden to operators and a potential job and profit machine to contractors and service providers […]

  • WATCH: SeaGen Decommissioning Project

    20 August 2019
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

     SIMEC Atlantis Energy recently decommissioned its SeaGen tidal turbine in Strangford Narrows, Northern Ireland. The 1.2MW SeaGen is the first commercial scale tidal turbine development to be fully decommissioned. Keynvor MorLift was appointed as the principal contractor to carry out the decommissioning engineering, planning and offshore works. The final major lift operations included the […]

  • Genesis in action: Oil platform comes back to life as artificial reef

    11 April 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production

    A new lease on life has been bestowed upon an offshore platform that brought over 120 million barrels of oil to the energy market during its lifetime.

  • Baltic CO2 storage project gets EU funding

    13 June 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy

    The European Commission has signed a grant agreement with Lithuanian liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operator KN Energies (KN) for technical and commercial studies for a planned CO2 terminal in Klaipėda, Lithuania.

  • EnQuest to Manage Decommissioning of Thistle and Deveron

    31 January 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    EnQuest has agreed with BP to manage the decommissioning activities for Thistle and Deveron, located 275 miles north-east of Aberdeen, UK. The agreement follows EnQuest’s completion of the acquisition of 25% interest in the Magnus oil field from BP. Under the agreement with BP, EnQuest will receive $30 million in cash in exchange for undertaking the […]

  • WATCH: Scaldis Decommissions Horne and Wren

    31 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Scaldis SMC has recently executed Horne and Wren platform decommissioning project. The company secured the contract in April 2016 with Tullow Oil, operator of the Horne and Wren field. The plugging & abandonment (P&A) of wells and offshore preparatory works were carried out from the jack-up vessel Kraken. The heavy lift vessel Rambiz, was mobilized from Flushing, the […]

  • Jumbo in Subsea Decommissioning Deal with TAQA

    15 March 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Jumbo has secured an offshore decommissioning project in the North Sea by TAQA Energy. The project includes the removal, transportation and disposal of three subsea protection domes and piles. The removal operation will take place at the offshore fields located in the P15 block, 35km North West of Hoek van Holland in the Dutch North […]

  • Experts to Discuss Decommissioning at UK Event

    22 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Decommissioning North Sea oil and gas facilities is projected to cost £40.6 billion over the next 25 years in the North Sea. When the time is right, oil companies will seek to decommission as efficiently and cost effectively as possible while ensuring they meet their safety and environmental obligations. The issue will take centre stage […]

  • Aker Solutions to Decommission Murchison Platform

    9 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

      Aker Solutions has secured the contract for the first phase of decommissioning the Murchison platform in the North Sea after more than 30 years of production. The three year contract was awarded by CNR International (UK) Ltd. Aker Solutions will manage the engineering design, procurement and offshore execution to ensure the facilities are safely […]

  • Kvaerner lands decommissioning gig with Shell

    10 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian engineering and construction services company Kvaerner has been awarded a contract with Shell for the disposal and demolition of the subsea compression pilot at Nyhamna in Norway.  The onshore Nyhamna facility processes gas from the Shell-operated Ormen Lange field located 140 km north-west of Kristiansund, in the Norwegian Sea. The gas from the field arrives onshore at the Nyhamna […]

  • Xodus names new decommissioning lead

    26 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Xodus Group, a provider of engineering and advisory support for the oil and gas industry, has appointed a new lead for its decommissioning division.

  • Photo of the Day: Atlantis SeaGen Decommissioning

    14 March 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    SIMEC Atlantis Energy has recently completed the subsea cutting process for the decommissioning of SeaGen tidal turbine. The SeaGen turbine, previously the world record holder for tidal generation, is the first tidal generator to be decommissioned in Strangford Lough, the company said in a social media statement. SeaGen tidal device was installed at Stranford Lough, Northern […]

  • Decommissioning in Offshore Wind – A Worldwide First

    4 February 2016

    Decommissioning is a hot topic within the Offshore Energy industry and will also be a topic during the Offshore Energy 2016 conference. Over the past months a worldwide first has taken place with the dismantling of Yttre Stengrund wind farm owned by Vattenfall. The wind farm had been operational since 2001 and Vattenfall has had […]

  • GCMD completes ‘world first’ full-chain carbon capture pilot in China

    30 June 2025
    Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    The Singapore-based Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) has wrapped up what it said was the ‘world’s first’ maritime pilot showcasing the full value chain of onboard captured carbon dioxide (CO2), including offloading, handling, transport and utilization. The pilot, which was completed in China on June 25, was performed in two stages. As disclosed, the […]

  • Kinsale decommissioning preparations in full swing

    18 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    PSE Kinsale Energy is preparing for the decommissioning campaign of its Kinsale area gas field located in the Celtic Sea off Ireland.

  • Plans filed for Northern Producer decommissioning

    16 December 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Northern Offshore and EnQuest have submitted combined decommissioning programmes for the Northern Producer FPF to the UK authorities.

  • Barakah to Decommission Chinguetti and Banda Fields

    20 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Barakah Offshore Petroleum’s wholly-owned subsidiary, PBJV Group, has received a Letter of Award from Samling Resources for the abandonment and decommissioning of Chinguetti and Banda fields, offshore Mauritania. The scope of the contract covers the provision of well intervention vessel (WIV), platform supply vessel, and all necessary parts, spares, repairs, refurbishments and/or modifications to the […]

  • Claxton and OIS Boost Decommissioning Capacity

    8 October 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Claxton has developed an extension module for its Suspended Well Abandonment Tool (SWAT), which should enable its sister company, Offshore Installation Services (OIS), to set deeper environmental and intermediate barriers. Neil Watson, SWAT product leader, Claxton, said: “SWAT holds the Queen’s Award for Innovation in the UK, and the Petroleum Institute Platinum Award for Innovation. It is […]

  • University of Dundee to Study Subsea Decommissioning

    29 March 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Research that will support decommissioning by exploring approaches to the recovery of subsea structures is to be carried out by the University of Dundee on behalf of Xodus, with support from the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC). Xodus is undertaking the project in order to develop analysis methods and design guidance for the removal […]

  • VIDEO: Can decommissioning ever be agile?

    12 November 2018

    On the North Sea alone hundreds of platforms and thousands of subsea wells need to be decommissioned. Not surprisingly operators and service providers preparing for this wave in decommissioning, focus very much on cost reductions.

  • US Navy Decommissions USS Rentz

    12 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    The guided-missile frigate of the U.S. Navy USS Rentz (FFG 46) was decommissioned during a ceremony at Naval Base San Diego, on May 9 after thirty years of service. As Rentz Sailors manned the rails, retired Vice Adm. Martine Jules Mayer, the ship’s first commanding officer and the ceremony’s guest speaker, detailed the ship’s history, […]

  • DNS Develops Decommissioning Programme Template

    5 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    A standard programme template for UK offshore decommissioning projects has been credited with heralding a step-change for the industry after being formally endorsed by the UK regulators and successfully trialled by three international operators for different types of asset. Decommissioning industry body Decom North Sea (DNS) developed the template in partnership with the Department of […]

  • Cost Modelling Highlighted at Decommissioning Summit

    11 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Cost modelling – called “the difficult final lap” in offshore infrastructure management – will receive a heightened focus this year at the biggest decommissioning and abandonment gathering in the world in Houston, organizers say. The 6th Annual Decommissioning & Abandonment Summit taking place 10-12 March features an entire section dedicated to improving cost modelling. Shell […]

  • Aquaterra and Oceaneering join forces in decommissioning

    29 January 2020
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Aquaterra Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Oceaneering to offer complete decommissioning and late life solution packages to the North Sea oil and gas industry.