Decommissioning of Offshore Installations - Commercialization -Completed

Goal
Description
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Results		Presentation Sheet

Goal
There is today about 600 platforms in the North Sea. All who are interested in the issue of decommissioning of oil platforms remember the incident of Brent Spar and the resultant controversy and discussion concerning the environmental impact which such a project may lead to. The decommissioned oil platforms pose a potential pollution problem for the world's oceans and particularly in this case, for the North Sea. At a meeting in July of 1998 in Sintra, it was agreed by the Norwegian and EU countries environment ministers, that all oil and gas installations in EU and Norwegian waters should be dismantled completely, after they have outlived their use, in an environnmentally responsible fashion. A complete removal of the installations, with existing technology, is however quite expensive, and it is therefore imperative that new and more cost effective methods for dismantling of these installions are considered through analysis and research. The results of the project will be presented to all the interested parties in an open seminar sponsored by OCD, AUE, and Rambøll. Furthermore AUE will be able to use the results of the project in developing courses for personnel involved in the decommissioning of oil and gas installations.

Description
Participants: Maersk Contractors, Ramboll, Force Technology, DNV, EOS, Promecon, Uniscrap, Port of Esbjerg, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Offshore Center Danmark.

To develop inexpensive, safe and environmentally friendly methods for the removal of redudant oil platforms at sea so that the OSPAR regulations issued by the EU countries' ministers of the environment at their 1999 Sintra meeting are honoured.

Mile Stones
1. Project expectations. Report after 1 month.
2 Environmental parameters. Report after 3 months.
3. 5 solution concept descriptions. Report after 12 months.
4. 2 detailed concepts. Report after 24 months.
5. Final documentation. report after 30 months.
6. Open Seminar organized by OCD in cooperation with AUE. After 36 months.

Results

The project will, as its main priority, concentrate on the selection of 1-2 options for thorough review and certification. The results of the project will be presented in an open seminar organized by AUE, Rambøll, and OCD for all concerned and interested parties.