DECOMMISSIONING & ABANDONMENT XODUS APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR TO DRIVE DECOMMISSIONING STRATEGY
Xodus Group has appointed Enrico Salardi as its decommissioning director to lead the company’s experienced ‘decom division’ which was formed in 2015.
Mr Salardi has more than 20 years’ experience in the management of oil and gas assets. he joins Xodus from operator Quadrant Energy where he was Senior Project Manager for a number of decommissioning programmes in Australia.
“Xodus has been ahead of the game when it comes to decommissioning, from advising governments to strategic planning,” said Mr Salardi. “I am joining a very experienced team that has worked on managing processes and the execution of work on many assets in the North Sea and around the world.
“I hope my knowledge will add to this and provide the team with an insight into what challenges the operators are facing and how we can help ease the demanding process of decommissioning, including reducing associated costs.”
Throughout his career, Mr. Salardi has managed many projects in various phases of their lifecycle around the world, including Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Libya, Croatia, Egypt and Australia. After more than 15 years working for Italian supermajor Eni, he joined Apache in Perth, Australia where, besides decommissioning work, he also managed a number of new development projects.
As several assets in the North Sea reach the end
of their lifespan, the latest cost estimate from the Oil and Gas Authority has predicted the cost of decommissioning the UKCS oil and gas infrastructure is £59.7 billion with an ambitious goal of completing this work for less than £39 billion.
Xodus’ integrated capabilities cover the entire offshore decommissioning process from facility design to project execution and long-term monitoring and can help clients ensure that their requirements are understood and managed.
Mr Salardi will work alongside Xodus’ decommissioning lead, Peter Tipler, who will continue to focus on delivering the innovation, collaboration and strategic solutions that are required to reduce the overall cost of decommissioning. he helped form Xodus’ decom division which has undertaken over 100 decommissioning projects globally ranging from M&A due diligence and commercial advice, to training and detailed planning and approvals for decom execution.
Mr Tipler recently helped Xodus deliver a decommissioning ‘trend survey’ to Japanese government organisation JOGMEC (Japan Oil and Gas and Metals National Corporation) to provide oil and gas companies in the country with a better understanding of the decommissioning process and how to manage their global asset and abandonment liabilities.
Wim van der zande, CEO of Xodus Group said: “Enrico has vast experience of working at all stages of an asset’s lifecycle and his recent work in directly managing a decommissioning project
ABERDEEN HARBOUR SUPPORTS MAERSK OIL DECOMMISSIONING CAMPAIGN
Two subsea mid water arches weighing around 100 tonnes each are just some of the items that have been landed at Aberdeen harbour as the port supports Maersk Oil’s decommissioning campaign for the James, Janice, Affleck and Leadon fields in the North Sea.
In conjunction with Scotoil and Maersk Supply Service, Aberdeen harbour has supported Maersk as it works to safely recover subsea infrastructure from these decommissioned fields.
A total of nine shipments, due to be complete in September, will be brought to Aberdeen by the vessel Maersk Achiever.
The Janice decommissioning programme in its entirety involves more than 37,000 tonnes of material being brought ashore, of which more than 90% from the 4 fields will be recycled.
Colin Parker, Chief Executive of Aberdeen harbour Board, commented: “The port has been handling decommissioning work for several years now, including the decommissioning of sizeable structures since 2014, and we are ideally placed to support such work, given that we are home to a range of specialist disposal and recycling service companies, fully licensed SEPA approved project areas, and our trunk road accessibility.
“Our capabilities in this area are due to expand
even further once Aberdeen South harbour is operational in 2020, but we continue to welcome decommissioning work into the existing harbour, and believe that the service we are providing is of the highest quality.”
Craig Smith, Managing Director of Scotoil added: “Several of the units involved in this job have been too large to ship by road in their current state, but we have been able to use the Aberdeen harbour and Scotoil Licensed Area within the port to down- size he units, ready for onward road transportation, thereby providing a cost- effective processing solution for our customer. We hope to carry out many similar projects in conjunction with Aberdeen harbour Board in the future.”
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will provide our team with valuable insight of an operator’s perspective. he will bring his learnings from global decommissioning projects to our key areas, including the North Sea, which we hope will lead to further cost savings for our clients.
“As we’ve shown over the last few years, Xodus is a trusted advisor in decommissioning. Our team can apply its deep understanding of decommissioning from execution of projects globally to focus on the key drivers that materially impact the overall cost for operators.”
Xodus Group is exhibiting in the Decommissioning zone at SPE Offshore Europe on Stand 6B21.
The company is also presenting in the ‘Decommissioning Regulation’ session on Wednesday, September 6 and the ‘Global Late Life and Decommissioning Practitioners’ on Thursday, September 7. More details at:
www.offshore-europe.co.uk /en/Conference
right: Enrico Salardi, Decommissioning Director,
Xodus Group.
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