NorSea Group (UK) has won North-East Scotland’s first major ‘small piece’ decommissioning contract. Work has already begun on the six-month project, which is being carried out at NorSea Group’s Peterhead facility on behalf of Endeavour Energy and involves safe disposal of subsea manifolds and associated pipework from the Renee and Rubie fields.
All materials from the fields, which lie 200km north-east of Aberdeen, are being delivered to Smith Quay which is operated by NorSea Group. An important element of the GBP 0.5M contract was the requirement that reuse of returned material be maximised and NorSea Group will achieve a 100% recycling rate. The returned material includes 1,000t of concrete mattresses, which will be used as hard core and in road construction projects; 200t of pipework and skid units, which will be recycled as scrap metal; manifold valves that will be refurbished and reused and a 17t crossover manifold that will be transported to the Underwater Centre at Fort William where it will be used for diver training.