Decommissioning Services
Sophisticated resources and adequate planning are paramount to tackle the main decommissioning elements considered from the business and environmental points of view, meaning costs and safety.
Decommissioning in the Nigerian oil and gas sector may contain in the following legal sources which might have become domesticated:
1. 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf;
2. 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS);
3. Non-binding International Maritime Organization Guidelines and Standards of the Removal of Offshore Installations and Structures on the Continental Shelf and in the Exclusive Economic Zone;
4. The OSPAR Convention (coupled with the OSCOM Guidelines, as adopted).
Our main decommissioning activities are as follows:
1. Complete removal and transportation to ground for scrapping;
2. Complete removal and storage in sites destined to become artificial cliffs;
3. Removal of the top structure and storage in a site close to the down section left on site (toppling);
4. Complete removal and sinking in high sea bottoms;
5. Complete removal and re-utilization in another place;
6. Reutilization on site for a different purpose than hydrocarbon production.
Contact Portal Oil & Gas Marine for more information on our decommissioning services.