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 paper explores the biology of the invasive Tubastraea sun coral, aiming to identify methods to eliminate or diminish its spread. -
Expressions of interest released by the operator include everything from abandonment to life extension.
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The paper reviews an operator’s deepwater field project offshore Mauritania, for which several techniques were considered with respect to decommissioning a subsea pipeline system at water depths of 700 to 960 m.
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Phased work to remove Heimdal and Veslefrikk A from the Norwegian North Sea shelf should be completed sometime in 2025.
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One of the last oil facilities in state waters on the path towards full decommissioning slated to begin in 2022.
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The complete paper presents the results of an investigation into the creep behavior of North Sea shales and their ability to form effective annular barriers.
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Final lab testing has been completed and field trials of the ultrahigh expansion bridge plug will begin by the end of this year.
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement approved the conversion of the Lena compliant tower platform into an artificial reef under the bureau’s Rigs to Reefs program.
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Plugging and cleaning up the open oil and gas wells in Texas could cost companies and taxpayers as much as $117 billion, according to a new report.
