Offshore staff
MELBOURNE, Australia — ExxonMobil Australia has started a technical tender process for offshore decommissioning works offshore Victoria, southeast Australia.
This will outline approaches to performing Bass Strait platform removal activities, ahead of decommissioning various facilities that are close to ceasing production.
The company is inviting submissions from offshore heavy-lift contractors for this initial tender phase.
“We expect each vendor will propose a unique approach to platform removal in Bass Strait, based on their capabilities and experience,” said ExxonMobil Australia chair, Dylan Pugh. “We will then consider all the options presented, ensuring they meet our own, community and regulator expectations, before moving onto the final commercial tender process next year.”
Over the past few years, the company has completed about $600 million of early decommissioning work in Bass Strait, including removal of the Seahorse and Tarwhine facilities, plugging and abandonment on the Blackback and Whiting wells, and progressing well decommissioning on Kingfish B and Mackerel.
06.20.2022
