DECOMMISSIONING
Joe Glass with a working model of NESSIE
DECOMMISSIONING A
New design for
NESSIE could bring monster benefits to oil and gas sector Joe Glass has joined forces with
n experienced, Northumberland- based marine engineer with a passion for oil & gas technology has outlined plans for a new submersible that could change
the way oil platforms are transported back to shore after their useful life ends, thereby saving the UK tax payer billions of pounds over the next 20 years.
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Seaways Engineering International as managing director (UK). Te Californian company has used Glass’s experience of the oil & gas industry and his extensive marine engineering skills to help solve the problem that it will cost the UK government more money to decommission end of life oil platforms
than the tax that it will earn from production. Tere are more than 400 North Sea oil platforms ready to be decommissioned, a job that involves taking the platform back to shore and returning the seabed back to its original state. Estimates for the cost of decommissioning and restoration varies between US$30 and US$100 billion over
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