Decommissioning

US Rigs-to-Reefs donations set to hike as deeper projects eye savings

May 26, 2015

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...

Shell consults early on toxic Brent field bases: project chief

Apr 29, 2015

Shell is analysing the waste held in the Gravity Base Structures of the Brent platform and has not fully ruled out a removal of the GBS units, Duncan Manning, Shell's joint head...

UK Decom workforce boosted by Skills Charter

Apr 29, 2015

Decom North Sea, the UK body representing the offshore decommissioning industry, has signed the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board’s (ECITB) Skills Charter, DNS said in a...

Brunei taking lead on Asia-Pacific decommissioning guidelines, expert says

Feb 26, 2015

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,...

Red Hawk Down: How they made it look easy

Feb 23, 2015

The decommissioning of Anadarko’s Red Hawk spar in September 2014 set a number of records. Here, Ryan Kavanagh, the man in charge of the project, tells DecomWorld how planning made...

Industry speaks out against ‘broken’ bonding system for decommissioning

Dec 7, 2014

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...

CNR International threatens to exit North Sea over sluggish fiscal reforms

Dec 7, 2014

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...

UK trade body likes fiscal reform ideas but urges swift action

Dec 7, 2014

UK industry trade body Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) has urged the government to act fast on its proposals to lighten the tax load on North Sea operators because the industry is at a “...

BG Group’s European exploration boss to lead new UK regulator

Nov 8, 2014

Andy Samuel will be chief executive of the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), the brand new regulator for the UK’s offshore industry.

Concern voiced over too few wells in latest UK North Sea licensing round

Nov 8, 2014

Government calls it one of the biggest rounds ever, but trade body asks, where are the wells?

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