16 May 2017

Guardian: ‘Festooned with cranes, oil pipelines and manned by a crew of several hundred, the Pioneering Spirit sits in the port of Rotterdam like a giant marine version of a forklift truck. Next month this vessel, one of the world’s largest ships, will arrive in the North Sea and attempt to remove the 24,500-tonne top […]

06 Feb 2017

The process of decommissioning the Brent North Sea oil field is well underway – The Shell site has lots of information on this. A recent Guardian view on this. ABPmer Blog – Steve Hull 25/01/2017  Decommissioning of oil and gas structures: call for review? OSPAR 98/3 established stringent requirements for the decommissioning of oil and […]