Decommissioning and Abandonment

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Electrocentrale București (ELCEN), one of Romania’s leading producers of thermal and electric energy, has signed a MoU with Sage Geosystems for the carrying out of a feasibility

Perenco UK has completed a campaign of velocity string installations on five wells at the West Sole Charlie platform in the Southern North Sea (SNS), situated 70 km east of Perenco’s Dimlington terminal on the Yorkshire Coast.

The campaign was

Perenco UK has completed a campaign of velocity string installations on five wells at the West Sole Charlie platform in the Southern North Sea (SNS), situated 70 km east of Perenco’s Dimlington terminal on the Yorkshire Coast.

The campaign was

Shell UK Ltd has signed a contract with Mermaid Subsea Services Ltd to utilise the offshore company's services for a multi-year engineering, preparation, removal and disposal (EPRD) well head severance (WHS) project in the North Sea.

Planned in three annual batches,

Bhagwan Marine has partnered with Linch-pin to deliver the Thevenard Island Offshore Decommissioning Project contract for Chevron Australia.

With special focus on environmental sustainability, the retirement project involves safe removal and the repurposing of nine offshore platforms as

DeepOcean, an ocean services provider that is dedicated to enabling the energy transition and sustainable use of ocean resources, has been awarded a significant recycling project on the UK continental shelf.

Provided by an unnamed international

Applicable by a significant master services contract from decommissioning specialist Promethean Energy,

Aberdeen-based Odfjell Technology Ltd has solidified is plug and abandonment (P&A) and slot recovery range with a £3mn-acquisition of McGarian TDC Ltd.

This acquisition will advance Odfjell’s Well Services division, and add to the company's 20 years of

An integrated service provider from Aberdeenshire, AquaTerra Group has announced four decommissioning contract wins that add up to a seven-figure sum.

The last year has marked several firsts for the Group, including the first time that the company was subcontracted

The Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) has called for innovations in rigless plug and abandonment.

This has been made in partnership with the 'Go Radical P&A' project, a venture by Energy Transition Norway, Danish Offshore Technology Centre, Centre of

James Fisher Decommissioning, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has completed a significant decommissioning project in the Gulf of Thailand.

After extending the contract with a major

Woodside Energy has prepared and submitted an experts-consulted, final environment plan (EP) to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and

Export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) will be supporting Brazilian contractor Ocyan's decommissioning drive with a US$7.5mn guarantee. 

After initial discussions with UKEF, Ocyan onboarded Scottish business Maritime Developments Ltd in 2022 who would take care of

The UK-based decommissioning specialist Decom Engineering's intellectual property (IP) has passed a 'strength test' following an intellectual asset review of its pipeline cutting saw

The Department of the Interior announced a final rule from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) that makes the American oil and gas industry accountable to cover decommissioning costs of

Private equity investors Buckthorn Partners and One Equity Partners (OEP) have acquired Acteon Group, an international offshore

Exploration and production company Energean will be taking control of the decommissioning of Tors and Wenlock fields in the Southern UK North Sea, which are now at the end of their economic production capability 

As part of the project the company has

The MV Patriot has become the latest addition to the Rovco specialist fleet, joining the company’s existing two site characterisation vessels.

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Well integrity solutions provider Unity has onboarded Ian Retalic as the new Wells Manager, as part of the company's robust 2024 growth plan. 

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