Decommissioning Insight 2016 - Oil & Gas UK

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4. Decommissioning Expenditure and Activity on the
UK Continental Shelf in 2015
Analysis was carried out to assess actual decommissioning activity in 2015 on the UKCS, outlined in Figure 1
below. All of the planned activity was undertaken last year totalling £1.1 billion.
Figure 1: Decommissioning Activity in 2015 on the UK Continental Shelf10
Decommissioning Activity Total
Platform well P&A 50
Subsea well P&A 17
Mattresses decommissioned 575
Subsea infrastructure removed 5,886 tonnes
Pipelines for 'making safe' 357 kilometres
Modules for 'making safe' 13
Modules for topside preparation 34
10 Complete data were not available for Norway.