ConocoPhillips is expected to enter into a frame agreement with Norway's AF Gruppen for the future removal and disposal of up to seven platforms in the Southern North Sea. The frame agreement includes engineering, preparation, removal…
Ekofisk. Image from ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips has received consent from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for preparations for and the start of the removal of minor structures from the Ekofisk field facilities…
Kvaerner has been awarded a contract with Norske Shell for the disposal and demolition of the Subsea Compression Pilot at Nyhamna. Image from Kvaerner. The scope of work consists…
CNR's Murchison platform removal in the UK North Sea has been completed, according to Heerema Marine Contractors, part of the Heerema - AF (HAF) Offshore Decom Consortium. Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) and AF Offshore Decom (jointly called HAF Decom) for the full engineering…
Engineering and services firm Claxton Engineering has been awarded a contract to riglessly casing cut and recover a total of seven wells in the southern North Sea across two normally unmanned, platforms, along with an additional subsea suspended well at one of the locations…
Image of Olav Henriksen (SVP Projects, Aker BP, left) and Pieter Heerema (Projects, Allseas) at the signing ceremony in Stavanger 29 May 2017. Image from Aker BP. Allseas, via Excalibur Marine Contractors…
Shell has awarded Wood Group a contract in support of its decommissioning the Brent Bravo platform in the UK North Sea. Effective immediately, Wood Group will prepare the platform for removal via a single lift using the Pioneering Spirit heavy lift vessel…
Susan Gourvenec offers a down under outlook for decommissioning offshore oil and gas facilities. Operating pipelines provide habitat for marine life. Photos from Woodside. Australia’s…
Decommissioning in Western Europe is set to boom after numerous false starts, says Douglas Westwood’s Ben Wilby. The Troll A platform. Photo: Statoil/Øyvind Hagen. Decommissioning…
Houston’s Ardent completed the removal of the Troll Solution jackup in the Bay of Campeche, off Mexico, that the company is calling the largest wreck removal in 2016. Ardent deployed assets from several countries…
Aberdeen-based well management firm Zenith Energy has successfully completed the plug and abandonment (P&A) of the Ombrina Mare development well, offshore Italy, for London’s Rockhopper Exploration. The Atwood Beacon…
Allseas’ dynamically positioned single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has successfully executed its first heavy lift project offshore Norway. The US$2.7 billion mega-vessel, built to lift 48,000-tonne topsides…
Aberdeen-based well management firm Zenith Energy has successfully completed the plug and abandonment of a platform well on the Ombrina Mare field offshore Italy for Rockhopper Exploration. The project was the firm's first offshore well management project…
GE Oil & Gas subsidiary, PT. VetcoGray Indonesia, has been awarded a field decommissioning contract with Premier Oil Indonesia, to support the shut-down of four subsea wells in the Anoa field, offshore Indonesia. The deal will see GE…
Allseas’ huge single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has successfully installed a 5500-tonne test platform topsides on a substructure in the K-13 field in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The installation was completed on Sunday 7 August…
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