Decommissioning Insight 2016 - Oil & Gas UK

Norwegian Continental Shelf

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• Sixty-seven pipelines with a total length of 297 kilometres will be decommissioned from 2016 to 2025.

• The majority are inter-field connectors that link fields to host facilities.

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• Ten kilometres of pipeline are to be decommissioned in 2016, with activity forecast to peak at over 100 kilometres in 2022.

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• For many of the projects included in the survey, pipeline decommissioning lies outside the timeframe.

Figure 28: Forecast of Pipeline Decommissioning Activity on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

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120

Umbilicals Other Pipelines Trunklines

Increased Uncertainty in Forecasts

100

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80

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60

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20

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2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Source: Oil & Gas UK

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Pipeline Decommissioning 2016 to 2025

Pipeline Decommissioning (Kilometres) 2016 to 2025

Total

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297

Umbilicals Trunklines

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28 45

Norwegian North Sea

39 23

Other pipelines

224

Norwegian Sea

No activity No activity

No activity No activity

Barents Sea

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