Decommissioning and Abandonment

Energy technology start-up Clearwell Technology has taken up a feasibility testing programme for a new tool that could cut the costs and emissions of well decommissioning projects by half, following support from Scottish Enterprise.

Bruce Cardno and Paul Ray set up Clearwell

Norwell Engineering, a global well engineering and project management firm, has secured a multi-million dollar contract to deliver an integrated offshore decommissioning

Legasea has announced the successful completion of a significant circular economy project, requiring the disassembly of 10 decommissioned Subsea Production Systems recovered from the Celtic Sea.

According to Legasea, the ‘Shore-to-Store’ service, supported by the

Deep geothermal delivery specialist CeraPhi Energy has been awarded the first of its kind geothermal study to undertake the repurposing of offshore oil and gas wells using its proprietary advanced closed-loop

Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit has delivered the Gyda topsides to the Aker Solutions yard in Stord, Norway, for disposal.

Gyda is a field in the southern part of the Norwegian sector in the North Sea, between the Ula and Ekofisk fields. The field was developed with a

Eni Australia is said to have committed to full decommissioning of the Woollybutt offshore oil field by NOPSEMA, after being issued one of the seven directions of compliance to adhere to the OPGGS

Claxton AS, a brand within the Energy Services division of Acteon, a marine energy and infrastructure services company, has signed a collaboration agreement with Norwegian-based supplier Seabed Solutions to add value to its decommissioning projects and help operators fulfil their obligation to return

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interests of the Alliance group of companies for US$120mn million cash at closing, plus the potential for post-closing

Petrofac, one of the leading providers of services to the global energy industry, has grown its presence in Africa having been selected by Tullow Oil to provide well decommissioning services in

Havfram, a Norwegian oil field equipment supplier recently announced that PC Mauritania 1 Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS, has awarded Havfram an offshore decommissioning contract.

The contract includes the provision of

Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, and Promethean Decommissioning Company (PDC), a pure-play decommissioning operator, will come together to decommission the South Pass 60, South Pass 6 and East Breaks 165 fields, offshore Gulf of

Liebherr has announced that its Heavy Lift Crane (HLC) 295000 is on board the Orion and is ready to work on decommissioning projects.

The Orion is a next generation offshore installation vessel by DEME which is capable of installing

Marine and lifting equipment specialists Motive Offshore Group (Motive) and subsea and decommissioning equipment rental specialists Hiretech Limited (Hiretech) have joined forces to bring superior technology and service solutions to the Middle East.

Motive, with its UAE hub and existing catalogue of

In order to reduce the significant safety risks associated with the manual emergency release of mooring systems during FPSO tandem offloading ocean towage, heading control, positioning and decommissioning, Gall Thomson has released

To help TotalEnergies – an oil and gas company – with a deepwater plug and abandonment (P&A) challenge offshore in the Brazilian pre-salt, Welltec, an international provider of robotic well solutions for the oil and

DOF Subsea has attained a 99% rate for the combined recycling and repurposing of recovered materials on its decommissioning project for Repsol Sinopec Resources UK.

The company provides engineering, preparation, removal and disposal (EPRD) services at the Buchan and Hannay

Helix Energy Solutions Group, a leading provider of offshore energy services, has entered into a new multi-year contract with Shell Offshore to provide well intervention services in the Gulf of Mexico.

The three-year contract, commencing in March 2022, includes an anticipated 75 days utilisation per year with the option to add

Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, has received a major decommissioning contract by the Australian Government, which has kickstarted decommissioning services in the country’s offshore oil and gas sector.

The

PanGeo Subsea, a subsidiary of Kraken Robotics, has been awarded a US$5mn contract by Couvillion Group for assistance with a decommissioning project in the Gulf of Mexico.

In 2004, a storm induced mudslide caused an offshore jacket to topple which has since been lying on the seafloor 150 metres

Xodus, a global energy consultancy, has been awarded the Rigid Pipeline Non-Metallic Component Characterisation study for National Energy Resources Australia's (NERA) National Decommissioning Research Initiative (NDRI).

Alasdair Gray, Late Life and Decommissioning Lead at Xodus, made