OGUK Decom Insight Report 2021

Decommissioning - a key part of the Energy Transition

Building a centre of excellence

Re-use and re-purposing

Industry working to become more effective and efficient:

Safe and environmentally sound Multi-operator campaigns

R

Opportunities to repurpose infrastructure for:

E

Y

P

T

I

U

L

I

T

A

Academia

B

Operators

T I

A

P

P

O

r

o

j

e

CCUS

Hydrogen

OffshoreWind Geothermal

c

A

t

s

N

C

Supporting the circular economy

Natural decline

Exports

Over 1,000,000 tonnes of topsides from North Sea region coming onshore over the next decade. Much of which can be reused or recycled.

Technology

Supply Chain

Government & Regulators

OUTOF SERVICE

OUTOF SERVICE

E

Oil and gas emissions falling as some older and larger assets come off stream

E

X

S

P

I

E

T

R

Innovative contracting models

Decommissioning insight 2017

Decommissioning insight 2021

Wells

1,624

1,782

Industry is becoming more efficient

Platforms

98

125

Subsea Structures Total Expenditure

49,373 tonnes

87,974 tonnes £16.57 billion

£17 billion

Low carbon decommissioning

Establishing the UK as a global hub

Decommissioning can be an energy-intensive exercise — we must find ways to reduce our total carbon footprint in decommissioning, like any other part of the industry and the rest of the economy

Insight develops with OGUK's Interactive Decommissioning Toolkit

DECOMMISSIONING INSIGHT 2021

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