Neptune Energy today announced the award of a $30 million decommissioning contract to Well-Safe Solutions, for a campaign covering more than 20 wells located across eight Dutch and UK North Sea fields. It is the first multi-region, multi-well decommissioning campaign award by Neptune to a single rig contractor and will significantly reduce time and costs associated with the work. Well-Safe …
Well-Safe Solutions and Neptune Energy have agreed a contract for the Well-Safe Protector jack-up rig to plug and abandon (P&A) at least four subsea and 21 platform wells in the Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea. The one-year, firm contract also enables Neptune Energy to take up Well-Safe’s broad range of decommissioning engineering services if required, as well as the …
Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, has secured a three-year contract extension for maintenance services from Serica Energy. Under the terms of the agreement, Petrofac will continue with the provision of maintenance execution, maintenance consultancy and metering services to Serica Energy’s Northern North Sea asset, the Bruce platform complex which processes production from its Bruce, …
15/09/2022
Pop Up Decom at MRS Training & Rescue
Come along to MRS Training & Rescue, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, on Thursday 13th October – there are two sessions starting either 8.30am or 1pm. It’s exciting times for MRS Training & Rescue as the company prepares to officially open its brand-new training facility in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen on Thursday 13th October. The new state-of-the-art facility has been specifically …
Tokyo – ClassNK has signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Maersk Training A/S regarding training for offshore wind farm operators and education for alternative fuel ship crews. Maersk Training is an international industry leader in developing competencies and increasing skills, with over 16 locations worldwide. With over 40 years of experience, Maersk Training specializes in delivering training for the …
A North Sea decommissioning firm has thrown a rare piece of public criticism up the supply chain towards the owners of the Foinaven FPSO and oilfield. In a widely-issued press release, Atlas Decom of Inchgreen, on the banks of the River Clyde, has vented frustration directly at Teekay (NYSE: TK) and BP (LON: BP) over the decision to take the …
As it stands, the focus for the North Sea is ‘new’. New fields. New projects. New production. New energy sources. A revival in drilling means available rigs are being snapped up like hot cakes as companies try to ensure their operations run to time. Read more here
The majority of UK North Sea assets are being dismantled in Britain, new figures have revealed amid concerns of overseas yards winning decommissioning work. Information obtained by Energy Voice shows that British yards have won dismantling for 26 of the 39 oil and gas assets removed from the UK North Sea between 2018-2021. Read more here
08/09/2022
Petrodec starts decom work on Amethyst A2D
Decommissioning firm Petrodec says it has begun work on the Amethyst A2D platform, marking its first foray into operatorship. The decom specialist, in which Anglo-French E&P group Perenco is an investor but not the parent company, became operator of the Amethyst A2D installation in May. Read more here
London, UK, 08 September 2022: The HyTech consortium will be led by DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, in collaboration with Progressive Energy, Frontier Economics, Enertek International, Flex Process and Dave Lander Consulting to support BEIS (Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy) in the assessment of the feasibility, costs, and benefits of using 100% hydrogen for heating in the UK. The UK …