Carbon Capture & Storage: A New Lease of Life for Submarine Pipelines?
there’s excess wind power. Alternatively, they could be used to export sequestered CO₂ from onshore power production facilities or industrial areas to be stored underground out at sea.A North Sea hydrogen OpportunityPauline Innes, Head of Decommissioning at UK regulator the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA, formerly the Oil & Gas Authority), said analysis by NSTA has highlighted about 100 pipelines of particular interest for reuse in the UK sector. “If a pipeline were to be used for CCS or hydrogen (or indeed any other use) it has the effect of saving the new owner the time, effort
CGG Announces Largest Ever Seabed Survey
area.“Our asset-light configuration enables us to best take advantage of key opportunities and fully leverage our core capabilities.“The new data set will also complement CGG’s extensive high-quality Cornerstone towed-streamer data library in the area and support the UK Oil & Gas Authority’s strategy for Maximizing Economic Recovery.&rdquo
Decom North Sea Sheds Light on Supply Chain Capability
Decom North Sea has published aDecom Directory in conjunction with Scottish Enterprise and the Oil & Gas Authority, which provides details of companies which have the capability to service the UK/UKCS decommissioning sector. Supported by EEEGR, FPAL, EIC, FEDF and NOF, the directory captures the capabilities of almost 300 supply chain companies which can service the UK/UKCS across17 newly-defined supply chain activities within a decommissioning work break down structure (WBS); from planning stages through to site remediation and long-term monitoring. Created with the assistance of EEEGR
Maersk Seeks to Shut Janice in UK North Sea
output of one of the North Sea crude grades that helps to set global prices through its connection to the Brent oil benchmark. Oil from Janice feeds into the Ekofisk blend, one of the four crude grades that underpins dated Brent. Maersk Oil said it would approach Britain's Oil and Gas Authority for approval to stop production from the second or third quarter of 2016. As part of the regulatory procedure, Maersk Oil may submit proposals to tie one or some of the fields back to other installations to produce again. "In terms of what happens to the fields, that will
World’s First Decommissioning Collaboration Tool
by its performance improvement division for clients such as Engie (previously GDF Suez), Tullow Oil and a major operator in South East Asia. The decommissioning edition of iVISION is now being launched to the decommissioning market to address the collaboration challenges outlined by the Oil & Gas Authority (OGA). The OGA recognized through its Call to Action, published in February 2015, that whilst the UK has a good track record of decommissioning to date, the industry is still learning and adapting to this new phase. Successful collaboration is key to the future of decommissioning, a $63billion
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