Offshore staff
LONDON — Shell UK has committed to decommission the Leman F & G platforms and associated subsea infrastructure in the UK southern North Sea.
This follows regulatory approval from the Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning (OPRED), which it received in January.
Production from the Leman gas field, which was discovered in late 1965, began in 1968.
Both Leman F & G platforms are normally unattended installations (NUIs), which have supported production from the field since 1987, at locations 48 km and 51 km northeast of the Bacton gas reception terminal on the Norfolk coast.
Their produced gas heads to the Leman A complex via subsea pipelines before being exported to Bacton.
Both NUIs are set to cease production in the mid-2020s. Shell submitted its draft decommissioning plan in July 2023 to the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.
The full decommissioning scope covers the platform topsides, jackets, production pipelines, power cables and associated stabilization features.
04.02.2024
