10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • 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 […]

  • Augean CEO Joins Decom North Sea Board

    11 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Augean, one of the UK’s leading specialist waste management businesses, has informed that its CEO, Dr Stewart Davies, has been appointed to the Board of Decom North Sea, the offshore oil & gas supply chain forum established to formulate effective contracting strategies for the forthcoming decommissioning programme in the North Sea which is projected to […]

  • Proserv scoops four deals in Asia Pacific region

    25 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    Energy services company Proserv has been awarded a series of contracts for well severance, platform, and FPSO decommissioning services in the Asia Pacific region. Proserv said on Tuesday that the contracts were awarded by Premier Oil in Indonesia, by Chevron through Baker Hughes in the Gulf of Thailand, BHP through Fugro in Western Australia, and […]

  • Bibby Offshore in North Sea Decom Contract

    4 April 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Bibby Offshore has secured a contract with a North Sea operator, to deliver decommissioning operations in the Northern North Sea East Shetland Basin. The company will utilize one of its construction support vessels for the project, due to start in Q2 of 2016 and be completed by the end of 2016. Bibby Offshore will carry out remedial rock […]

  • Augean’s CEO Appointed to Board of Decom North Sea

    11 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Augean, one of the UK’s leading specialist waste management businesses, announces that its CEO, Dr Stewart Davies, has been appointed to the Board of Decom North Sea, the offshore oil & gas supply chain forum established to formulate effective contracting strategies for the forthcoming decommissioning programme in the North Sea which is projected to cost […]

  • Sparrows lands five-year contract renewal in North Sea

    3 February 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Sparrows Group has been awarded a five-year contract renewal with a UKCS operator to continue supporting its production across two assets.

  • Helix Q4000 Delivers More Gulf of Mexico Projects

    15 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Helix Energy Solutions’ well intervention subsidiary, Helix Well Ops, has completed a four-month campaign in the Gulf of Mexico carrying out intervention to decommissioning work scopes. According to the company, a total of six jobs were executed, including a lump sum construction decommissioning work scope comprising of heavy lifts and subsea flowline work. The work was completed utilizing […]

  • Offshore watchdog checks up on Equinor’s preparations for plug & abandonment ops in North Sea

    7 January 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Offshore regulator has found no irregularities following an audit pertaining to the permanent plugging of wells at Equinor’s North Sea field.

  • SeaBird Sells Hawk Explorer

    31 October 2016

    SeaBird Exploration has reached an agreement for the sale and decommissioning of the vessel Hawk Explorer. The decommissioning of the vessel is a part of the company’s efforts to reduce cost and adjust fleet capacity to better reflect current market demand, SeaBird explained. The company will retain the seismic equipment of the vessel. On September […]

  • UK port secures new partner to set up decom hub for North Sea oil & gas region

    22 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration

    A business opportunity worth nearly $3.3 billion per year has prompted the UK’s Port of Sunderland to forge ties with Northern Metal Recycling to bring a new decommissioning playground into play, opening the doors to service the oil and gas industry in the North Sea.

  • New North Sea decom firm makes its first buy

    9 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Well-Safe Solutions, a specialist well abandonment company, has acquired Intervention Project Management (IPM) for an undisclosed sum. With the North Sea decommissioning market as its focus, Well-Safe Solutions was launched just last week, promising to create 400 jobs. In its statement on Wednesday, Well-Safe said that IPM’s founder and managing director, Phil Milton, has been appointed […]

  • WATCH: Taking North Sea oil & gas platform apart piece by piece

    16 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Equipment, Transition

    Aker Solutions has removed a 2,000-ton module from the main structure of a decommissioned oil and gas platform.

  • Well-Safe Solutions brings in two more directors

    23 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Well-Safe Solutions, a specialist well abandonment company, has announced the appointment of two more directors to lead the recently launched business. Following the company’s recent announcement of the company’s first acquisition and appointment of chief executive officer Phil Milton, Well-Safe on Wednesday said said it bolstered its team with the appointments of Graeme Murray as legal […]

  • Australia: NSW Takes Oceanlinx to Court

    15 March 2013

    The Government of New South Wales (NSW) is taking wave energy developer, Oceanlinx, to court over broken promises to remove the decommissioned wave energy generator, Illawarra Mercury writes. Oceanlinx was testing whether the Port Kembla waters are suitable for wave energy development from2006 to 2009, and since then the decommissioned “Mark 1” wave generator is […]

  • HydraWell Appoints Decom Expert as CCO

    17 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    HydraWell has appointed decommissioning expert Tom Leeson to the newly created role of chief commercial officer based in Aberdeen, UK. Tom Leeson has close to 30 years’ experience from the oil industry, working for both operators and oil services companies in the North Sea, Middle East, SE Asia and Brazil. He joins HydraWell following a […]

  • John Lawrie re-opens Shetland recycling facility to support decom sector

    12 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Metal reprocessing, tubular supply and decommissioning company, John Lawrie Group, on Monday re-opened its new Shetland recycling facility for business. 

  • UK: OGA’s first hackathon focuses on well plug & abandonment

    24 June 2016

    UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has brought operators and the supply chain together to uncover solutions applicable to the Southern North Sea’s (SNS) well plug and abandonment (P&A) market at its first hackathon event held on Thursday in Aberdeen. As oil and gas fields approach end of life, P&A is a necessary step in […]

  • Sentinel Subsea Completes Offshore Field Trial

    5 November 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Sentinel Subsea has completed its first offshore field trial, run in conjunction with independent operator Spirit Energy and the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC). Recognizing the need to monitor suspended wells both efficiently and cost-effectively, Sentinel Subsea’s passive monitoring system is set to help the decommissioning sector reduce costs, whilst ensuring the marine environment […]

  • Green Marine to dismantle Andritz turbine

    28 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology, Vessels

    Green Marine UK has won a contract to fully decommission Andritz Hammerfest Hydro 1MW tidal turbine located at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC).

  • Helix’ Q7000 Begins DP Trials in Singapore

    28 August 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Helix Energy Solutions’ newbuild semi-submersible well intervention vessel, the Q7000, has started DP trials in Singapore.  According to the company’s social media update, the trials began on Monday. In addition, Helix entered into a contract with an undisclosed client to deploy the vessel in Nigeria in January 2020. The Q7000 will be performing subsea workover […]

  • Ramboll supports Dong Energy’s upstream O&G activities

    24 June 2016
    Equipment

    Danish engineering services firm Ramboll will support DONG E&P with engineering services for upstream oil and gas activities as a result of a new framework agreement that has been recently signed between the two entities. The agreement is valid for four years. According to Ramboll, the framework agreement entails provision of services in four main […]

  • Multinational players urged to step up oil & gas decom game off Australia

    20 March 2024
    Environment, Equipment

    The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is urging oil and gas companies to clean up disused infrastructure in Australian waters.

  • Cosco Scraps Seventeen

    8 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    China Cosco Holdings had disassembled 17 vessels, including four container vessels and 13 bulk carriers in the fourth quarter of 2014, as part of its previously announced fleet renewal project The vessels, with the aggregate capacity of 919,853 deadweight tons, were disposed of as scrapped vessels to different purchasers at a total consideration of approximately RMB […]

  • Helix vessel getting ready for Brazilian decom job with Shell at Namibia’s port

    18 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Helix Energy Solutions has confirmed the arrival of its purpose-built DP3 semi-submersible vessel to Namibia’s Port of Walvis Bay to prepare for its decommissioning assignment off the coast of Brazil.

  • More offshore acreage and new operatorship in Gulf of Mexico for U.S. player

    30 August 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    Houston-headquartered Helix Energy Solutions has acquired interest and operatorship in a field in the Gulf of Mexico.