decommissioning

Delayed decommissioning has been a theme on the UK Continental Shelf thanks to legal, regulatory, and technical hurdles, the report says.

The grant was awarded by the Scottish Funding Council in partnership with Scottish Enterprise to assist in developing an AI demonstrator to optimize subsea decommissioning.

This paper reviews decommissioning and abandonment in Nigeria, looks at candidate identification strategies, breaks down the methods and best practices involved, and examines the requirements for openhole and cased-hole abandonment.

Carnarvon basin job will be McDermott’s largest decommissioning project to date.

Australia must insist on full removal when ExxonMobil decommissions the offshore project, the Wilderness Society has said.

Radioactive elements occur naturally at low levels in oil and gas basins. As oil and gas is extracted, these elements can accumulate in infrastructure. Now, scientists in Australia are investigating the toxicity of different radiation doses to marine organisms.

This paper presents how one operator has developed a culture of circular decommissioning with the main goal of setting up a structured process to improve environmental performance by implementing the principles of a circular economy during decommissioning.

The lawsuit was filed against the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which has said the rule could affect around three-quarters of operators in the Gulf of Mexico.

The final rule amends existing regulations and increases the level of financial assurances that operators must provide in advance.

The Interior Department’s rule raises royalty rates for oil drilling by more than one-third, to 16.67%. The previous rate of 12.5% had remained unchanged for a century.