Decom North Sea News
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CSL Launches Decommissioning Introduction Course
DSL Announce Decommissioning Work for Talisman
with more than 800 facilities in the North Sea alone that will eventually require decommissioning, demand for knowledge in this area is on the increase.
New Decom North Sea member Derrick Services (UK) Ltd (DSL) is currently working on the Talisman Auk decommissioning project.
To meet this demand, CSL has developed a one-day Decommissioning Introduction course designed to provide managers, engineers and non-technical personnel with an overview of the process involved in decommissioning offshore oil and gas installations, with a focus on the environmental, safety and financial issues.
The contract involves removing the drilling derrick and substructure and, using approximately a dozen multidisciplined and OPITO qualified staff, DSL is currently halfway through the six-month contract.
“These issues are of critical importance to CSL when undertaking decommissioning projects and it’s important that people have access to the relevant knowledge and information”, says Neil Knowles, CSL Managing Director. “By demonstrating the challenges and lessons learned from past decommissioning experiences, it provides delegates with an understanding of the decommissioning process from a real-life perspective, which I believe is invaluable.” The course provides delegates with an understanding of the decision-making, planning, and implementation processes associated with decommissioning offshore oil and gas installations. For course dates, locations and booking: email csltraining@csl-engineering.com or tel +44(0) 1224 285566
Flawless Exit
Mike Smith, Managing Director at DSL, said: “The Talisman Auk project is the latest in a successful track record of drilling package decommissioning on platforms both in the North Sea and overseas by DSL. It further confirms our ability to support the decommissioning of oil and gas facilities.” DSL is one of only a few companies that offer the provision of derrick decommissioning work with a floating ginpole and this has been utilised for the Talisman Auk project. The floating ginpole is a specialist piece of equipment that is ideal for derrick erection, decommissioning or modification. It is a very cost-effective alternative when the use of barge cranes is not possible or is too expensive, allowing dismantling of the derrick piece by piece on site. Overseas, DSL has most recently worked on the decommissioning of CTF Rig 05 offshore Tunisia, followed by the upgrade and modification of this rig to be installed onto another installation, which DSL then project managed and provided onsite expertise for.
For over 20 years people=positive™ has been supporting development projects on and offshore in the Oil & Gas sector. In the early 90’s we worked with teams on the Gannet field development, on Curlew with the first ESP technology in the North Sea, on major re-development projects in the Brent field, Buzzard and Clair. Our global experience has included involvement in Sakhalin Island with Exxonmobil and with LNG projects for Qatargas. Currently we are supporting several mega-construction projects in Papua New Guinea and offshore Abu Dhabi in the Upper-Zakum field.
DSL is an industry leader supporting drilling contractors and operators worldwide and is the UK’s only API 4F licensed company for the design and manufacturing of drilling structures.
In all of these smart-track© projects, the same principles applied in achieving Flawless Start-Up are easily transferred to the decommissioning arena where ‘Flawless Exit’ becomes the goal. Focus will still be around putting effort into bringing key stakeholders together from the outset of the project to build strong collaborative relationships and to facilitate integrated working at all levels. The themes will still be about working in a way that delivers ‘No Surprises’ - avoiding problems down the line where safety may be compromised and where change becomes costly, time-consuming.
The company employs over 100 staff and has UK offices in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth, as well as worldwide in UAE, Singapore and Brazil, and reported a turnover of £15million in 2009.
In North Sea decommissioning we are already involved with a number of projects where the goal is now ‘Flawless Exit’. we work with project leaders to design interventions at staged intervals throughout the project life-cycle and provide performance coaching support to individuals and teams involved across the project. For more information contact: Barney Mackie - Director of Knowledge and Innovation bm@peoplepositive.com Visit our website: www.peoplepositive.com
DSL is committed to providing a diverse range of services and innovative solutions to the oil and gas industry. These include derrick inspection, drilling package decommissioning, derrick assembly and outfitting, rope access trades personnel, in-house engineering, design, fabrication and procurement.