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Repsol to decommission Rev field

Jan 12, 2018

Repsol's Norwegian subsidiary has set out plans to decommission its Rev field in the Norwegian North Sea.  The Rev field, in Production Licence 038C, Block 15/12 on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, comprises four seabed installations split into two separate areas…

OGTC awards $1.76 million in P&A funding

Jan 08, 2018

Aberdeen's Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) is to invest US$1.76 million (£1.3 million) in four projects aimed at developing new plugging and abandonment (P&A) technologies. BiSN, Strathclyde University, Heriot-Watt University and Baker…

OGTC launches $2.69m digital and decommissioning calls for ideas

Dec 14, 2017

Aberdeen's Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) has launched two calls for ideas relating to digital and decommissioning, with £2 million available to successful applicants.  The OGTC says that machine learning techniques could help extend the life of oil and gas fields…

P&A simulator launched at Scottish university

Dec 04, 2017

A university in Scotland has launched a 'world-first' simulator for decommissioning activities in the UK North Sea and further afield.  Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University (RGU) in collaboration with funding partners The Oil & Gas Technology Centre…

Connecting the dots

Dec 01, 2017

While decommissioning is often seen as a challenge, to the Dutch it is also an opportunity. Elaine Maslin reports. The North Sea Wind Power Hub concept. Images from TenneT.    The Dutch don’t…

North Sea decom scale highlighted

Nov 29, 2017

Nearly 350 fields are expected to be decommissioned between now and 2025 across the UK, Norwegian, Danish and Dutch sectors of the North Sea, with the majority of them in the UK, a report released today predicts.  The figures were revealed…

CDC set to commercialize its multi-purpose jackup design

Nov 28, 2017

Multi-purpose vessel designer CDC Scotland is set to commercialize its first vessel design through Dutch firm OOS Energy, part of OOS International.  OOS Energy, which is also building two semisubmersible crane vessels, is planning to build two units…

Well-Safe picks Port of Dundee as marine base

Nov 28, 2017

New Aberdeen-based subsea well abandonment firm Well-Safe Solutions has picked the Port of Dundee as its onshore marine base, it announced at the Offshore Decommissioning Conference in St Andrews today.  Well-Safe has secured two acres of quayside facilities with access to 40…

Port of Cromarty gets decommissioning permit

Nov 28, 2017

The Port of Cromarty Firth has become the first port in Scotland to be granted a decommissioning Pollution Prevention Control Permit by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) under the latest environment legislation, it has said…

New Decom North Sea CEO appointed, ahead of annual conference

Nov 24, 2017

Decommissioning industry trade organization Decom North Sea has appointed an interim CEO following the appointment of Roger Esson to the Oil & Gas Technology Centre. Interim Decom North Sea CEO Dr Tom Leeson (pictured, right) will start immediately…

Decom North Sea CEO to join OGTC

Nov 23, 2017

Decommisioning trade body Decom North Sea CEO Roger Esson is to join the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) as its Decommissioning Solution Centre Manager.  Esson has more than 20 years of oil and gas industry leadership experience in the UK and internationally…

Port of Blyth takes on decommissioning, wins environmental license

Nov 22, 2017

The Port of Blyth in northeast England is set to make a strategic move into decommissoning following being awarded a decommissioning license from the UK Environment Agency.  During 2018, the port will ready a site at its Battleship Wharf terminal for decommissioning operations…

Taqa inks inaugural contract for P&A specialist Well-Safe

Nov 17, 2017

Well-Safe Solutions has signed its first contract after launching in July this year. The Aberdeen-based specialist well abandonment company has secured a three-year framework agreement with TAQA Bratani for the provision of intervention management services for all their North Sea assets…

OOS launches multi-activity unit vessel, in talks with shipyards

Nov 14, 2017

Dutch firm OOS Energy, part of OOS International Group, has revealed a new vessel concept, the Multi Activity Unit (MAU), a self-propelled, dynamically positioned jackup capable of performing a wide range of services. OOS Energy says…

Bibby completes Shell pipeline decom project

Nov 06, 2017

Bibby Offshore’s Houston-based division, Bibby Subsea, has successfully completed a subsea decommissioning project with Shell Pipeline, a subsidiary of Shell Oil US. Through its strategic alliance with US diving company, Aqueos Corp.…

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