Forecast total oil and gas infrastructure decommissioning spending on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) will reach £16.9 billion over the next decade, according to new industry estimates. The latest figure, for the period to 2024, is an increase of £2…
SPE Offshore Europe 2017 is set to host a new Decommissioning Zone, the organisers have announced. Working in partnership with Decom North Sea (DNS), the new Zone will provide a platform to share the latest market trend and technologies…
Norway’s Standlifter has developed a decommissioning jackup concept. The concept, shown during Norway’s Subsea Valley conference in April, is a jackup equipped for plugging and abandonment (P&A) and decommissioning operations in up to 300ft water depth…
In 2014, decommissioning spending on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) will reach approximately US$1.6 billion (£1 billion) for the first time in a single year, according to data published 9 October. The data, gathered from 28 UKCS operators…
Lerwick Port Authority (LPA) and international energy logistics company Peterson is planning investment totaling £20million to make Lerwick, Shetland, a decommissioning centre of excellence. LPA is undertaking a £11.95 million quayside…
The Fugro Synergy. From Fugro Drilling and Well Services. Plugging and abandonment accounts for about 43% of decommissioning costs. Operators and service companies are looking at ways to reduce the bill…
Offshore oil and gas decommissioning forum Decom North Sea (DNS) has appointed a new chief executive. Nigel Jenkins (pictured) will take up the post on July 1 and replaces Brian Nixon, who is retiring after playing an instrumental role…
Large structures in deep water Gulf of Mexico are set to challenge established decommissioning methodologies in the basin, while the North Sea still awaits its bow-wave of activity. Elaine Maslin reports. Globally, the offshore decommissioning market has largely been limited to two basins…
Senior representatives of the UK and Scottish governments will address the audience at Europe’s largest oil and gas conference and exhibition, SPE Offshore Europe 2013, in Aberdeen this September. More than 1,500 companies are exhibiting at the event…
A new report shines a spotlight on the UK’s decommissioning supply-chain’s future needs. The latest estimate of future spending on decommissioning in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is approximately £35billion by 2040. To date, fewer…
Research identifying strengths and weaknesses in the oil & gas decommissioning sector will be outlined to delegates attending a new one-day event for the sector taking place in Aberdeen today.Decom Offshore 2013 is being held by offshore oil…
Eleven panel sessions will give visitors to the SPE Offshore Europe 2013 conference unprecedented access to hear the views of top industry executives, government ministers and discipline specialists.The panel sessions will all aim to respond to the conference theme…
Oil & Gas UK and Decom North Sea held a sell-out Offshore Decommissioning Conference in Dunblane, Scotland, in October. Meg Chesshyre listened in.Sponsored by Aker Solutions and Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) and delivered in association with the UK’s Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF)…
A growing belief that the ‘bow wave' of the long-awaited North Sea decommissioning market has now reached the industry was evident at last month's sell-out Offshore Decommissioning Conference† in Dunblane, Scotland. Meg Chesshyre reports.A plea…
Current projections indicate around £27 billion will be spent on UK offshore decommissioning over the next 40 years, of which £9.2 billion will be spent over this next decade, according to a 2010 Decommissioning Insight brochure presented at the conference by Robert Harris-Deans…
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