Decommissioning and abandonment

Decommissioning and abandonment

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RE-USE

RE-USE

RE-USE

ƒ Re-use feasible for: ƒ Flexibles ƒ Thin-walled downhole or flowline tubing ƒ Bundles ƒ Rigid flowlines ƒ Consider methods in following slides ƒ Although feasible, it is unlikely that reuse of rigid lines will be commercially viable

Some pipeline re-use is possible. We consider how this may be done in the following slides. However, with corrosion issues on rigid lines, and the difficulty of recovering without overstressing, reuse of these is unlikely to be economic.

FLEXIBLES