10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • Maersk Supply Service Scores North Sea Decom Work

    16 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Maersk Supply Service has been awarded a contract to provide decommissioning services for the Janice subsea field in the North Sea for Maersk Oil UK. Maersk Supply Service will assume responsibility for engineering, project planning and managing the scope of the subsea decommissioning. “With the award of the Janice contract we are able to demonstrate […]

  • Expro: New member joins well abandonment services

    5 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Oilfield services provider Expro has appointed a new senior project manager, aiming to strengthen its well abandonment services.  Expro said on Thursday that Bill Inglis was named the new senior project manager. The company launched fully integrated well abandonment services last year which included late-life reservoir management, permanent reservoir abandonment, and post abandonment monitoring. According to […]

  • 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 […]

  • ‘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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • COSCO unit forms alliance for offshore energy projects in Southeast Asia

    24 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Singapore-based COSCO Shipping Marine Engineering (CSME) has signed a non-binding strategic cooperation agreement with compatriot Union Steel Holdings and China Offshore Engineering Solutions (COES) to collaborate in executing oil and gas projects in the region. 

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Well-Safe Solutions’ rig braves 13 North Sea storms to carry out Spirit Energy’s 15-well decom program

    5 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Well-Safe Solutions has shed more light on its decommissioning assignment with Spirit Energy, a North Sea operator, after crossing the finish line a few months ago, resulting in the completion of abandonment activities for 15 wells and recovery of 45.7 kilometers of tubing and casing alongside four horizontal and six vertical trees.

  • ExxonMobil hires Helix for three-year plug and abandonment services

    15 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    U.S.-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions has secured a plug and abandonment (P&A) agreement with U.S. energy major ExxonMobil in the Gulf of America. The company’s Louisiana-based shallow water abandonment group Helix Alliance was awarded the three-year framework agreement for offshore P&A services. “This agreement underscores our commitment to delivering high-value, fit-for-purpose decommissioning […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]