Decommissioning Insight 2020

DECOMMISSIONING INSIGHT 2020

2. Foreword

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3. Key Findings

4. Decommissioning in 2020

4.1 2020 – A Challenging Year

4.2 The Impacts of COVID-19 and Commodity Price Collapse 4.3 Removal Activity Continues to Progress in 2020 5.1 Decommissioning Over the Next Decade 5.2 The Decommissioning Work Breakdown Structure — Ten-Year Expenditure Forecast 5.3 Forecast Activity in the UKCS — A Detailed Snapshot 5.4 Cost Performance and Benchmarking 5.5 Building on What We Have Achieved So Far…

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5. UK Decommissioning in Perspective

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6. Decommissioning in the Wider North Sea 7. Decommissioning and the Energy Transition

8. Appendices

Appendix 1 — Maturity of Estimates

Appendix 2 — Glossary

Appendix 3 — UKCS Expenditure Breakdown 2020, to 2029 Appendix 4 — UKCS Decommissioning Activity Overview, 2020–29

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