10000 results found for 'Decommissioning'

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  • 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. 

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Australia’s energy backbone: Oil & gas firms set to boost tax revenue with $21.9 billion

    3 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    While emphasizing that oil and gas companies are among Australia’s largest corporate taxpayers, Australian Energy Producers (AEP), representing the country’s upstream oil and gas exploration and production industry, has highlighted that the hydrocarbon industry will drive additions to taxes and royalties by pouring $21.9 billion.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. 

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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).