Aker Solutions: Decommissioning is a huge and rapidly growing market

”Offshore constructions are neither waste nor junk, but resource banks full of materials that can be given new life in newbuilds,” says Aker Solutions’ Senior Vice President of Decom.
Photo: Øyvind Hagen / Equinor
Photo: Øyvind Hagen / Equinor
BY KJERSTI NELSON, TRANSLATED BY CHRISTOFFER ØSTERGAARD

Towards 2030, removal of close to 1 million tonnes’ worth of offshore platforms is planned in the North Sea basin alone. As written into Norwegian law, authorities demand that cessation of oil operations also involves decommissioning of oil production facilities at sea.

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