Decommissioning
Delayed decommissioning has been a theme on the UK Continental Shelf thanks to legal, regulatory, and technical hurdles, the report says.
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.
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. -
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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Australia must insist on full removal when ExxonMobil decommissions the offshore project, the Wilderness Society has said.
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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.
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This paper describes the operator’s culture of circular decommissioning, with the main goal to improve environmental performance by implementing circular-economy principles during the engineering and execution of decommissioning projects.
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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.
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The final rule amends existing regulations and increases the level of financial assurances that operators must provide in advance.
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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.
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