10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • Decom North Sea’s Brian Nixon Receives Significant Achievement Award

    21 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea (DNS’s) chief executive Brian Nixon was presented with a Significant Achievement Award at the Offshore Achievement Awards. The Offshore Achievement Awards have a 27-year history of celebrating outstanding success within the UK offshore industry in categories which include safety innovations, new technologies, collaborative working and individual achievement. Mr Nixon’s honour is a […]

  • Fugro goes full circle on first UK offshore wind farm (Video)

    31 March 2020
    Project & Tenders

    Fugro has shared a video showing the decommissioning of the Blyth project, the first offshore wind farm built in UK waters. The Blyth offshore wind farm consisted of two 2MW turbines commissioned in December 2000, which were at that time the most powerful units. Back then, Fugro supported E.ON with the site investigation and the […]

  • TAQA hands in decom plan for Cormorant Alpha topsides

    22 June 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Oil and gas company TAQA has filed its decommissioning programme for the Cormorant Alpha platform topsides to the UK authorities.

  • USA: DOI Requires Permanent Plugs in Nearly 3500 Non-Producing Wells in GoM

    16 September 2010
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Director Michael R. Bromwich announced they will require oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico to set permanent plugs in nearly 3,500 nonproducing wells that are currently completed with a subsurface safety valve in place and dismantle […]

  • Ops Setback for SeaBird

    30 July 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Oslo-listed seismic player SeaBird said it will experience delays on two surveys previously secured in West Africa and the Americas. Namely, the 3D survey in West Africa was initially expected to be completed early in Q3 2019 utilizing the Nordic Explorer and is now estimated to be completed in the latter part of Q3. The […]

  • Reef Subsea Wins North Sea Decom Gig

    3 October 2013

    Reef Subsea Integrated Projects  has secured a decommissioning workscope on the Angus Pipeline PL1857 Flushing projects for HESS Limited. Reef Subsea Integrated Projects (RSIP) will deploy the Polar King construction support vessel to provide operations in field, which marks the first decommissioning project of this kind that Reef Subsea has worked on. The workscope will take […]

  • Stranded FPSO Umuroa leaves Tui field after 14 years

    7 May 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    The BW Offshore-owned FPSO Umuroa has been disconnected from the Tui field, located offshore New Zealand, after spending 14 years there.

  • New boss takes helm of Decom North Sea

    2 May 2016

    Decom North Sea (DNS), the representative body for the offshore decommissioning industry, which promotes and facilitates collaboration and cost reduction, has today announced the appointment of a new chief executive. Roger Esson brings over 20 years’ highly relevant experience as DNS continues to play a critical part in the development of the UK decommissioning sector, […]

  • Scottish firm to dismantle Spirit Energy’s Morecambe platforms

    11 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    CessCon Decom has been awarded a contract for the decommissioning, dismantling, and recycling of Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay DP3 and DP4 platforms.

  • Sea trials underway for ‘world’s first’ e-methanol-fueled SOV

    5 June 2025
    Infrastructure, Vessels

    The “world’s first e-methanol-powered service operation vessel (SOV)”, built by Cemre Shipyard for Danish offshore services firm ESVAGT, is undergoing sea trials in Türkiye

  • Bibby Offshore Wraps Up Two Decom Projects on UKCS

    8 September 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Bibby Offshore has delivered two multi-million pound decommissioning contracts to the UK Continental Shelf. Endeavour Energy appointed Bibby Offshore to perform operations in the Renee and Rubie fields located in blocks 15/27 and 15/28 of the Central North Sea, approximately 115km east of Aberdeen. The 60 day agreement, which was completed in Q3 of this […]

  • DNS and OGUK Join Forces to Streamline Activities

    19 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    UK offshore oil and gas industry trade bodies Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) and Decom North Sea (DNS) are to work more closely together to deliver a more efficient and effective decommissioning agenda for the North Sea. More joined-up working, but with each body retaining its independence, geographical representation, brand and governance, was announced yesterday (November 18) […]

  • Subsea industry specialist takes helm of Decom North Sea

    15 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy

    Decom North Sea (DNS), a membership organisation dedicated to the oil and gas decommissioning sector, has appointed Fraser Moonie as its chief executive officer.

  • More North Sea decom work for OIS

    22 June 2015

    Offshore Energy Today has early Monday reported that Offshore Installation Services (OIS), an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract by Antrim Energy to decommission four subsea wells in the central North Sea. OIS has now revealed it has also won a deal to plug six wells from Centrica Energy, which will include complete offshore and […]

  • Decom North Sea Names New Board of Directors Chair

    22 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    Decom North Sea has appointed Jinda Nelson as chair of its board of directors. Nelson appointment to the board follows several years as an active member of Decom North Sea, including close involvement with the organisation’s Decommissioning Leadership Group from its inception. She has also spent a number of years sitting within the Decom North […]

  • Siem Offshore vessel to support Kinsale P&A campaign

    17 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Offshore vessel owner Siem Offshore has been awarded a three-month firm contract for an AHTS with PSE Kinsale Energy.

  • GALLERY: Shell’s Brent platform reaches UK port ahead of final dismantling

    25 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Following its recent removal from the UK North Sea, Shell’s oil and gas platform Brent Alpha has arrived at a decommissioning yard in the UK.

  • DOF Subsea to support offshore decom project

    1 September 2020
    Project & Tenders

    DOF Subsea has won a marine operations turnkey contract in connection with a decommissioning project by Teekay Petrojarl Floating Production. The award for the Oslo-listed firm covers project management, engineering, procurement and all offshore marine operations. The offshore works specifically include preparatory works at the sites, including installation of a temporary mooring system, towing operations […]

  • URS Targets O&G Decom Market with New Mattress Recovery Tool

    21 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Utility ROV Services (URS) has launched a new mattress recovery tool (MRT) developed for the oil and gas decommissioning market. The tool has been designed to recover concrete mattresses that have been installed in oil and gas fields to protect subsea piping. URS said it started developing the MRT in response to challenges identified by Decom North Sea […]

  • COSCO Scraps 14 More

    14 April 2015
    Business & Finance

    Hong Kong-listed shipping company China COSCO Holdings Company Limited Group (COSCO) has disassembled fourteen vessels, including one containership and thirteen bulk carriers, from 1 February 2015 to 31 March 2015 within its fleet renovation plan. The vessels, with the aggregate capacity of 924,700 deadweight tons, were disposed of as scrapped vessels to different purchasers at […]

  • GMS finds work for jackup barge in Arab Gulf region

    8 April 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Gulf Marine Services (GMS), a UAE-headquartered provider of self‐propelled, self‐elevating support vessels to the offshore energy industry, has secured a contract for one of its large‐class vessels in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

  • BP puts UK field in rearview mirror as DeepOcean’s vessel pulls largest SSIV out of North Sea (Gallery)

    2 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Heavy lifting

    DeepOcean has tucked a new decommissioning milestone under its belt by removing what has been deemed to be the largest subsea isolation valve (SSIV) in the North Sea.

  • Port of Dundee to Create Hub for Decom and Renewables Projects

    24 August 2017
    Research & Development

    The Port of Dundee welcomed the Scottish minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse, to the port on Wednesday to hear about the £10 million investment programme to create a hub for future North Sea oil and gas operations and offshore wind projects. The minister was briefed on the £10m quay extension which will […]

  • Heerema’s Sleipnir vessel removes topsides from UK waters in single lift

    14 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Heavy lifting, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    With the topsides removal, Heerema has completed another decom activity related to a platform being removed from the waters off the UK.

  • Trio Forms New Decom Player

    16 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Heerema Marine Contractors, Decom Energy and AF Offshore Decom, have jointly launched a new company – Fairfield Decom. Fairfield Decom was established as a late-life operations and decommissioning operator, providing solutions for aging offshore oil and gas assets, primarily in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). In support of the new venture, Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven, CEO […]