Decommissioning Insight 2019

Northern North Sea and West of Shetland

Figure 24: Well Decommissioning Activity in the Northern North Sea and West of Shetland 2019, to 2028

100

16

Suspended Subsea E&A Wells Subsea Development Platform Number of Fields With Decommissioning Activity

90

14

80

12

70

10

60

50

8

40

6

30

4

20

Number of Wells to be Decommissioned

2

10

Number of fields With well Decommissioning Activity

0

0

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028

Source: OGUK, OGA

Well Type

Sub-Totals

Percentage

Platform Well Subsea Well

400 132

73% 24%

7

Suspended Exploration and Appraisal Well

15

3%

TOTAL

547

100%

The northern North Sea region sees a marked increase in forecast activity over the period when compared with previous years, with 547 wells to be decommissioned, compared with last year’s report which found 391. Most of this increase is down to a rise in platform well decommissioning activity, which has increased from 51 per cent in last year’s data to 73 per cent this year, due to a couple of larger NNS assets appearing in the dataset. The activity profile sees a steady rise to 2024 and then a fall towards the end of the dataset, although there is a spike in activity in 2027. A similar profile is seen in the overall number of fields with expected activity.

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