Aberdeen Branch Webinar – Life Cycle of a North Sea Decommissioning Project Series

Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (OPRED) – What is decommissioning?
It’s not just End of field life, it’s lifespan from Field Development Programme to Decommissioning Programme, to future use.

Wednesday 16th June 2021 – 1330-1430hrs BST

This is the fourth & final Presentation in a Virtual Series of Events, Life Cycle of a North Sea Decommissioning Project Audrey Banner – Head of Decommissioning Programme and Policy

• Background to OPRED and BEIS
• UK and international legislation and how we translate these into the UK decommissioning guidance notes
• OSPAR, decision 98/3, derogations and considerations
• Technology development and Technology advancement joint industry project
• OPRED as regulators, working with Operators, industry, contractors and interaction with Stakeholders (HSE, HMT, HMRC, OGA and SEPA)
• What is decommissioning – its not just end of field life – Lifecycle of interaction with OPRED, Field Development Programme to Decommissioning Programme
• Decommissioning programmes large and small – example of an OSPAR decom programme and a small subsea decommissioning programme
• Comparative assessments
• Pipeline decommissioning and Pipeline bundles
• CCUS, reuse, and repurposing
• Liability in perpetuity and monitoring of pipelines left in situ
• Financial Governance, decommissioning security agreements, security and asset and company sales.
• Levels of decommissioning going forward