Decommissioning
Shell became the first international company to operate producing fields offshore Brazil and the first to navigate the country’s complex and detailed decommissioning permitting process, which involved extensive environmental assessments, regulatory approvals, and coordinated stakeholder engagement.
ExxonMobil moves forward with the decommissioning of a 25-year-old deepwater US Gulf development.
The Ohio River Valley Institute finds operator indifference, regulatory noncompliance as chief factors in state's growing number of deserted wells.
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The company has transformed its former Genesis platform into an artificial reef for marine life off the coast of Louisiana. -
Plugging operations are scheduled to begin early 2026.
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Global offshore decommissioning projects hear the starting gun in Australia and the North Sea, but will the race be a marathon or a sprint?
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Delayed decommissioning has been a theme on the UK Continental Shelf thanks to legal, regulatory, and technical hurdles, the report says.
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The objective of this paper is to outline the importance of new standards for studying hydraulic sealability of barrier materials, with an emphasis on interface analysis.
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The authors of this paper describe how deployment of dual-casing cement-bond-logging technology has provided critical insights in real time for decision-making on remedial jobs.
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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.
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This article examines how decommissioning costs impact project viability, showing that operational profitability can mask uneconomic end-of-life obligations, and advocates for ethical diligence in assessing these costs.
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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.
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Carnarvon basin job will be McDermott’s largest decommissioning project to date.
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