Donations from operators to US States running Rigs-to-Reefs programs will surge when more deep-water decommissioning projects participate in the cost-saving scheme, Robert Byrd, Vice...
On the 20th anniversary of Greenpeace’s campaign against the sinking of the Brent Spar platform, the oil and gas industry in the North Sea is still tied to a no dumping policy that...
A third of the estimated 1,700 offshore facilities in the Asia-Pacific region need to be decommissioned. ASCOPE launched its long-awaited guidelines on decommissioning back in 2013,...
Operators in the US have spoken out against burdensome financial guarantees, or bonds, required by the government to cover future costs of decommissioning in the Gulf of Mexico and...
UK trade body Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) has said that the reduction of two percentage points in the industry’s tax rate is “an important first step” towards improving the fiscal...
CNR International, the operator now decommissioning the North Sea’s Murchison platform, has said its focus would shift now to west Africa because UK government fiscal reforms relating...
