DECOMMISSIONING
With over 30 major decommissioning projects and numerous smaller ones completed, we are seasoned campaigners when it comes to the complex issues relating to platform and facilities decommissioning. Our approach is dynamic and pragmatic, and it easily achieves the highest standards. Already we have played a significant role in designing and applying innovative high-tech solutions that are currently in use and operating successfully.
We can function independently or integrate with Operations Management and Project teams.
Our years of Operations experience and unique understanding of oil and gas power means we know precisely how to decommission with the other disciplines while making sure the operating environment is safe for teams, and power facilities are in place.
Our experience shows that often electrical requirements increase or evolve during progressive phases of a decommissioning campaign. Sometimes there is insufficient power; sometimes there is either too much power or in the wrong place. ABMAS teams can apply their skills to engineer and execute solutions.
During decommissioning, it is always possible for Operators to become stuck where electrical utilities are needed for decommissioning but are already decommissioned, or in the wrong place. ABMAS applies its knowledge to implement safe, phased solutions that safely power down while still delivering power where needed.
Our fundamental understanding of construction and Operations means we help get assets decommissioned in close coordination with all stakeholders.
Decommissioning presents new risks to assets that Operators do not typically experience, like live and dead cables that need abandoning, for example. We help our Clients safely eliminate and manage these risks with methods that inspire confident decommissioning.
We have all of the necessary industry qualifications such as ISO9001, OHSAS18001, FPAL Verify.
If you are considering decommissioning or temporary mothballing, please let us enlighten you about what we have successfully achieved so far. We think that you will find our track record highly engaging and assuring, especially when safety, environment and costs management is so essential these days. Take a look below at just some of the extensive services we offer.
Service Details
We offer a comprehensive portfolio of services that modify existing facilities, design-build, commission and operate complete temporary power systems, and technically support our Clients. Some of these services are described below.
Strategy and Coordination
We ensure complete safety and compliance with current regulations for operational; ‘not normally manned’; ‘totally unmanned’, and decommissioned platforms.
We can project engineer decommissioning and temporary systems necessary to enable a sequential approach to final abandonment.
Our site teams provide offshore surveys followed by HAZOP, HAZID and implementation, readiness.
Feasibility is another critical success factor; after all, every platform can be unique! ABMAS often surveys and produces strategic decommissioning planning that combines our E&I knowledge with Operations experience.
Engineering capabilities
Our team of professional engineers design, install, remove and replace to suit new conditions where traditional sources of electrical energy are no longer needed.
We design and engineer alternative energy solutions to ensure operational needs for standby power and essential like navigations systems and platform location identifiers.
Our engineers supply smaller electrical generation schemes, photovoltaic, fuel cells and wind power composite systems that require little or no intervention.
We provide complete documentation including but not limited to technical submissions to relevant authorities, including strategic documents such as studies, operating philosophies, and guidance notes.
Our specialities involve engineering, work packs, drawings procedures and essential modifications, often involving complex interfaces.
We build and support
We understand how to manage and distribute power utilities, as well as interact with other disciplines. Accordingly, often engineering calculations for energy consumption, structural issues and minimum electrical power solutions.
Often we engineer and manage transitional phases to ultimate decommissioning that include integrated isolation plans and execution.
Low energy lighting and autonomous schemes are second nature; we even build them on a bespoke basis. Often, we obtain significant power reductions from re-distributing and removing lights based on surveys and modelling.
Our capabilities include decommissioning of high voltage power systems and cables where safety is a crucial feature of our innovative, cost-effective service.
We train
Specialist training is another excellent feature of our services. We are most successful in training teams to conduct safe cable identification and abandonment with both theory and practical elements such as the use of cutting tools.
We have the facilities and resources
We specifically designed our premises at Kintore to accommodate all manner of build, refurbish, test and calibrate as well as modern design facilities needed to support decommissioning activities.
Our installation, engineering and commissioning teams are ready for deployment to function independently or as part of larger integrated groups. They are flexible, experienced and competent.