10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • EnQuest hands in decom plan for Thistle Alpha topsides

    22 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    UK-based EnQuest has submitted its decommissioning plan for the Thistle Alpha platform topsides to the country’s authorities.

  • UK’s offshore mooring expert to support decom specialist’s North Sea campaign

    14 December 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Aberdeen-based First Marine Solutions has been awarded a contract in the North Sea by a well-decommissioning specialist, Well-Safe Solutions.

  • Kvaerner hired to dispose of Gyda platform

    20 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Kvaerner has been awarded a contract from Allseas for offshore preparations assistance, onshore disposal, and recycling of the Repsol-operated Gyda platform in the North Sea.

  • Norway: AF Group Signs Contract with DeepOcean to Recycle Statoils Loading Buoy at Statfjord C

    2 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

      The AF Group has signed a contract with DeepOcean to demolish and recycle Statoils loading buoy at Statfjord C. For AF Group the contract comprises planning, engineering and preparation offshore, bringing the buoy onshore and recycling. DeepOcean has total responsibility for the contract, including implementing the subsea work and towing from Statfjord to the […]

  • Scottish Government Supports Shetland Harbour Project

    17 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Alex Salmond announced a £10 million package to support plans for a deep-water quay facility in Shetland to secure decommissioning work on major offshore structures from the Northern North Sea. Following a meeting in Oslo on Tuesday with senior executives of AF Group and Lerwick Port Authority, the First Minister today said the Scottish Government […]

  • McDermott’s ‘custom-built’ lifting cradle puts the icing on the decom cake offshore Australia

    3 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    U.S. offshore engineering and construction player McDermott has brought a decommissioning assignment to an end off the coast of Western Australia.

  • Nexstep appoints new general manager

    22 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Nexstep has appointed Jacqueline Vaessen as its general manager, with effect from February 1, 2018.

  • Coretrax Delivers Decom Campaign with Hess

    4 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Coretrax, a wellbore clean up and abandonment specialist, has completed a three-year decommissioning contract with operator Hess Corporation for the first designated abandonment campaign of its kind. The project began in 2012, involving 30 well abandonments at the FFFA and IVRR fields in the UK North Sea. As part of this abandonment campaign, Coretrax successfully ran […]

  • Cooper hires Helix rig for Gippsland decom campaign

    19 April 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Safety, Vessels

    Cooper Energy has hired the Helix Energy Solutions-owned Q7000 light well intervention rig for a decommissioning campaign offshore Australia.

  • Petrofac completes well decom work for Tullow

    26 September 2016

    Oilfield services provider Petrofac has completed a well decommissioning contract for the oil company Tullow Oil in the Southern North Sea.  Petrofac said on Monday that its differentiated approach to decommissioning, in support of Tullow Oil’s well plugging and abandonment campaign in the Southern North Sea, saved $2.5 million compared to traditional approaches. The well […]

  • Pioneering Spirit vessel delivers Valhall jacket for decom

    6 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Allseas and its giant heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit have delivered Aker BP’s Valhall QP jacket to a yard in Norway for decommissioning.

  • Double contract wins for UK decom player in North Sea and Africa

    8 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Northern Ireland-based pipeline decommissioning specialist Decom Engineering has secured two contracts to carry out cutting operations on decommissioning projects in the North Sea and offshore West Africa. According to Decom, the two contracts are worth more than £300,000 and will see the company deploy its cold cutting saws which were designed and developed for energy sector […]

  • UK gov’t reaffirms commitment to oil & gas sector

    5 September 2017

    UK government remains fully committed in its support of the UK’s oil and gas industry, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury said on Tuesday at the industry’s conference in Aberdeen. Andrew Jones, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, spoke on Tuesday at the oil and gas industry’s conference – Offshore Europe – which started in Aberdeen on […]

  • Fairfield unloads Clipper South to focus on Dunlin decom (UK)

    28 October 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Fairfield Energy, a UK oil company, has sold its interest in the producing Clipper South gas field, in the UK North Sea, to a petrochemicals giant, INEOS.  The sale of 25% interest in the Clipper South field was done through the sale of Fairfield’s two 100% owned subsidiaries, Fairfield Acer Limited and Fairfield Cedrus Limited. Clipper South […]

  • Infographic: How much does it cost to abandon North Sea well?

    7 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    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. […]

  • OGA recruiting volunteers for well P&A optimization program

    23 February 2017

    UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has begun a search for operators to voluntarily participate in a multi-operator, well plug and abandonment (P&A) optimization program. OGA said on Thursday that the objective of the pilot program was to demonstrate the cost savings which can be achieved through collaborative working, stimulate work-sharing campaigns and adopt improved […]

  • COES Strengthens Presence in Scotland

    7 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    China Ocean Engineering Shanghai (COES), a state-owned marine and offshore engineering services group, has opened the office of its first UK subsidiary – COES Caledonia (UK) Limited, located in Dundee. The move aims to broaden the company’s international reach and support the growing offshore decommissioning and renewables sector in the UK and Europe. The North […]

  • World’s largest construction vessel brings heaviest load to UK shore

    3 May 2017

    Shell’s Brent Delta platform topside has reached a UK yard where it will be decommissioned. To remind, the topside was lifted off its offshore location last week by Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit vessel, in an effort that has been described as the world record in lifting. The topside weighs around 24,000 tons. The lift, using the largest construction […]

  • Fred. Olsen sells ‘Borgsten Dolphin’ for scrap

    13 July 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Fred. Olsen Energy, a Norwegian offshore drilling contractor, will sell its tender support vessel Borgsten Dolphin for decommissioning. The rig has been cold-stacked in Invergordon, Scotland after the early termination of its contract with Total in 2016. The oil company had hired the Borgsten Dolphin back in 2011 for a 40-month program to undertake tender […]

  • 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 […]

  • EMEC opens consultation on Archimedes Waveswing decom programme

    28 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has launched a consultation on a decommissioning programme for AWS Ocean Energy’s Archimedes Waveswing device that will be tested in the waters off Orkney in summer 2021.

  • Malaysia: IEV Wins Major Supply and Installation Contract

    19 December 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    IEV Holdings Limited announced that, on 13 December 2011, its 30% associate, IEV (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., has been awarded a major supply and installation contract from an established and major oil and gas operator in South East Asia. The scope of work of this turnkey project includes the engineering, fabrication, delivery, hook-up and commissioning of […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]