Decommissioning and Abandonment

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

...

Woodside Energy Limited has awarded DOF Subsea Australia retrieval of Enfield XT and offshore support services.

The campaign will involve the recovery of 18 subsea XTrees, 18 flowbases and associated spool sections, one wellhead severance and

...

Shelf Subsea have announced that the Southern Star, DPIII Saturation Diving Vessel, has arrived in New Zealand waters to commence work on phase 2 of the Tui decommissioning project.

The New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) awarded the contract to Shelf

...

Following the award of another major North Sea contract to Veolia and Peterson, Lerwick Harbour will be the location for the dismantling and recycling of a northern North Sea platform jacket.

This follows the winning of the contract to decommission the 14,500 tonne

...

Claxton, the lead brand of Acteon’s drilling and decommissioning segment, is set to acquire decommissioning personnel and assets from Oceaneering.

The agreement was signed recently with the anticipated closure date of 30

...

Unity, a provider of well integrity solutions, are supporting a North Sea well decommissioning programme for a major international operator, using its multifunctional Surface Intervention System (SIS).

The SIS has already completed intervention work on the first well, where it was

...

Spirit Energy Production UK Ltd. has awarded Heerema Marine Contractors a contract for removal and disposal services of the operator’s North Sea decommissioning portfolio.

The EPRD (engineering, preparations, removal, and

...

Legasea has successfully secured funding from Scottish Enterprise to develop their 'Shore to Store' service, while creating green jobs.

The project will reduce the carbon footprint of subsea decommissioning operations, by taking subsea equipment that is no longer

...

The Net Zero Technology Centre has recently announced the launch of its 2022 Open Innovation Programme aimed at developing and deploying technologies to reduce offshore emissions, accelerate clean energy production, and enable the delivery of the UK’s

...

Siem Offshore and Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc, have entered into an agreement for the well intervention Vessels Siem Helix 1 and

...

Expanded remedial direction provisions for offshore petroleum titles, referred to as trailing liability, came into effect on 2 March 2022.

These expanded the Government of Australia’s powers to call back titleholders, former titleholders, related bodies corporate, and related

...

Modern American Recycling Services, Inc. (MARS) has recently finalised the acquisition of the DP3 Diving Support Construction vessel Caballo Marango representing a substantial

...

Unity, one of Europe’s largest providers of well integrity solutions, has launched a new range of compact technologies to solve common industry challenges and support Unity’s surface well integrity, shallow intervention

...

Fugro has signed a four-year agreement with Heerema Marine

...

To ensure planning and management of increased levels of decommissioning activity, the Australian Government has made changes to the offshore oil and gas decommissioning framework.

These enhancements were made after extensive consultation with the public, industry

...

Senergy Wells, a Vysus Group company, has secured 15 new contract wins in wells disciplines globally, stretching from Mexico, through Europe and Africa to southeast Asia.

The contracts, worth more than UK£5mn to the company,

...

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has taken note of the additional US$239mn that Woodside Petroleum Limited (Woodside) has provided for its decommissioning requirements.

In its financial report

...

Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. has been awarded a field decommissioning contract by Trident Energy do Brasil (Trident Energy).

The project, located offshore Brazil in the Pampo and Enchova Clusters in the Campos

...

EnQuest, a production and development company, with operations in the UK North Sea and Malaysia, has provided an update on its operational performance, decommissioning business and for the year 2021.

The company also reported that its debt reduction continues with strong cash flow

...

Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has opened a public consultation to obtain information from suppliers on alternative technology for retrieving flexible pipelines in the Marlim field, off Brazil’s southeast coast.

According to the state-run oil

...