10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • Aberdeen Harbour expansion in focus at DNS Lunch & Learn event

    11 June 2014

    Decom North Sea (DNS), the oil and gas decommissioning forum, will host a lunch and learn event to give supply chain companies the opportunity to learn more about a variety of pertinent topics; from crisis communications, to the new developments at Aberdeen harbour. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 24, at the Doubletree […]

  • BSEE Official to Speak at DecomWorld’s 6th Summit (USA)

    14 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    To kick off what is being called a “bedding down year” for regulations in the Gulf of Mexico, a senior BSEE official will address the largest decommissioning and abandonment gathering in the world in Houston. Susan Green, deputy regional supervisor for field operations in the Gulf of Mexico for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental […]

  • UK: End of the line for Ettrick field after only 7 years of production

    3 June 2016

    Oil company Nexen, a subsidiary of CNOOC, is pressing on with its decommissioning efforts of the Ettrick field located in the UK sector of the North Sea. According to Bluewater, the owner of the FPSO operating on the Ettrick field, the production from the field was scheduled to cease on June 1, 2016, after which the […]

  • Pioneering Spirit removes Tyra East and West platforms

    7 August 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has removed the Tyra East and Tyra West integrated processing and accommodation platforms.

  • Orca provides dive system support and engineering services for Well-Safe Solutions

    11 August 2020
    Equipment

    Orca Oceanic Systems Ltd (OOS) has secured a contract with Well-Safe Solutions for the provision of dive system support and engineering services onboard the Well-Safe Guardian semi-submersible decommissioning rig.  Mike Masson, OOS’s managing director sad: “We’re delighted to finally secure the Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Well-Safe Solutions. We have been working with Well-Safe extensively over […]

  • Allseas to Build Single-Lift Vessel Larger than Pieter Schelte

    11 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Swiss-based Allseas has decided to build a second single-lift platform installation and decommissioning vessel.  The new vessel, larger than Pieter Schelte, can remove all platform topsides in the North Sea which are beyond the capability of Pieter Schelte. Besides decommissioning, the vessel is designed for worldwide installation of very large topsides. The topsides lift capacity […]

  • Decom North Sea Elects 10 New Directors (UK)

    10 October 2012

    Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil & gas decommissioning forum, held its annual general meeting last night in St Andrews, with 10 new directors elected from across all sectors of the decommissioning industry. The meeting heard that the supply chain body now has 213 fee paying members. Attendees were also given an overview of […]

  • Allseas vessel delivers Morecambe Bay platforms to CessCon yard for decom

    29 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Heavy lifting, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    CessCon Decom has taken delivery of the DP3 and DP4 platforms from Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay development in the East Irish Sea.

  • Stena rig en route to Ireland ahead of decom campaign

    12 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Stena Spey is now on its way to Ireland and the Celtic Sea ahead of a decommissioning campaign at Kinsale fields.

  • Equinor closes Veslefrikk chapter in readiness for decom ops

    22 February 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Equinor has shut down the Veslefrikk field, located in the North Sea, in preparation for the upcoming decommissioning activities.

  • Decom North Sea to Host Lunch and Learn in Aberdeen, UK

    11 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea (DNS), the oil and gas decommissioning forum, will host a lunch and learn event to give supply chain companies the opportunity to learn more about a variety of pertinent topics; from crisis communications, to the new developments at Aberdeen harbour. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 24, at the Doubletree […]

  • Gulf of Mexico: 1 million gallons of oil collected from 18-year-old spill over past three years

    18 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    The U.S. Coast Guard has contained and collected over one million gallons of oil discharged from wells connected to a toppled platform.

  • ‘Pioneering Spirit’ reaches Norway. Set to remove Yme platform

    18 August 2016

    After years of sitting idle in the North Sea without ever producing a single barrel of oil, the time has come for the Yme oil platform to be removed and sent to the scrapyard. The platform, Yme MOPUSTOR, with MOPU an abbreviation for Mobile Offshore Production Unit, was delivered by Dutch SBM Offshore to produce […]

  • Heerema Taps Balltec for North Sea Decom Project

    16 August 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Balltec has recently been awarded a contract by Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) for work on the decommissioning and removal of a large platform with conductors in the North Sea. Balltec’s scope of supply comprises 18 of its LiftLOK ball and taper lifting connectors. The connectors will be used for the lifting of 30 inch diameter […]

  • OGX to abandon Tubarao Azul field

    23 September 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Brazil’s OGpar, formerly known as OGX, an oil company formed by a former billionaire Eike Batista, will not be resuming production from its Tubarao Azul oil field in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil. The company, under bankruptcy protection since 2013, said this week that after one year of suspension of production on Tubarão Azul Field, […]

  • Claxton Releases Infographic Guide to North Sea Well Abandonment

    7 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Claxton, an Acteon company, has released an infographic guide to well abandonment costs in the North Sea. Released on the eve of the Oil and Gas UK Offshore Decommissioning Conference, held annually in St Andrews, Scotland, to discuss decommissioning in the region, the infographic highlights the costs operators are facing as they plan future campaigns. […]

  • Northern Producer FPF arrives at port from Don fields

    27 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders

    Northern Offshore’s Northern Producer floating production facility (FPF) has arrived at the Kishorn Port in Scotland following removal from EnQuest’s Don fields in the North Sea.

  • Ashtead bolsters management team

    6 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Human Capital, Technology

    Subsea services firm Ashtead Technology has appointed a chief financial officer (CFO) and five managers for newly created roles across its international team. Ashtead said the appointments underline the company’s strategic growth plans to strengthen its position in the global offshore energy market and build on its recent success in new and emerging markets, including […]

  • Hunterston Test Turbine to Go Out with a Bang

    13 September 2019
    Research & Development, Technology

    SSE Renewables is set to conclude decommissioning of the Hunterston National Offshore Wind Turbine Testing Facility in Scotland with the controlled felling of the remaining turbine. The original intention was to dismantle the components of the Siemens 6MW turbine by crane. However, a suitable method of safely dismantling the turbine by crane could not be […]

  • UK’s oil and gas regulator makes three new appointments

    7 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    UK’s oil and gas industry regulator, Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has made three new appointments to its leadership team. 

  • Premier Oil Looks to Utilize OPT PowerBuoy for Decom Ops

    23 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    Ocean Power Technologies has signed an agreement with Premier Oil to study the feasibility of using the PB3 PowerBuoy for decommissioning operations in the North Sea. The contract outlines work that will determine the viability of using the PB3 for monitoring and guarding remaining wells and subsea equipment after removal of a floating production, storage […]

  • UK: Decom North Sea Elects New Directors

    10 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea (DNS), the offshore oil & gas decommissioning forum, held its annual general meeting last night in St Andrews, with 10 new directors elected from across all sectors of the decommissioning industry. The meeting heard that the supply chain body now has 213 fee paying members. Attendees were also given an overview of […]

  • Nexstep contracts Oceaneering for first-ever joint well decom campaign

    21 January 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Six oil and gas operators in The Netherlands have signed an agreement with Oceaneering Services in the first joint campaign to decommission mud line suspension (MLS) wells in the Dutch North Sea, which are wells that were once drilled for exploration purposes, but never became producing wells.

  • Heavy Lifters Turn to Less Traditional Markets

    13 February 2017

    A troublesome outlook for heavy lift vessels within the market for topside and jacket installation, prompted by challenging market in recent years, has led contractors to seek out opportunities in less traditional markets. Two such bright spots are offshore wind and decommissioning, according to Douglas Westwood, an energy intelligence group, which claims that the former is […]

  • Douglas-Westwood sees troublesome outlook for heavy lift vessels

    13 February 2017

    Heavy lift vessel (HLV) contractors have faced a challenging market in recent years as the low oil price environment combined with a shift towards subsea installation and deepwater activity has seen fixed platform installations decline globally, Douglas-Westwood said in its DW Monday report.  According to the energy intelligence group, the number of fixed assets installed […]