Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK — CessCon Decom plans a new decommissioning hub at the Port of Aberdeen’s £400 million (US$473 million) South Harbour expansion, creating up to 50 new jobs.
The facility will be located in Crathes Quay, providing dismantling, recycling and reuse services with a special focus on subsea infrastructure.
It is being created under a memorandum of understanding between the Port and CessCon, which aims to position Aberdeen as a center of excellence and port of choice for the offshore decommissioning sector.
The move will also complement and expand the decommissioning services currently offered at the Port’s North Harbour and CessCon’s Energy Park Fife decommissioning complex.
The South Harbour decommissioning hub will provide heavy-lift zones, impermeable concrete dismantlement and processing areas, facilities for water collection and treatment, material storage areas, and offices.
CessCon has a minimum target on all its projects of 98% reuse and recycling (by weight) of all materials, and it claims to have achieved more than 99% reuse and recycling on various projects.
The South Harbour expansion will add 1.4 km of deepwater berths, heavy-lift, flexible laydown space and spacious project areas to Port of Aberdeen.
South Harbour should be operational by the end of October with construction due to end next spring when the final quay is brought into service.
CessCon Decom CEO Lee Hanlon said, “The new facility will be capable of handling turnkey decommissioning projects and the associated vessels. The substantial laydown and processing areas and water depths allow us to accommodate vessels up to 30 0m in length…
“Our ongoing project to decommission, reuse and recycle Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay DP3 & DP4 platforms at our Energy Park Fife facility is going very well, and with further projects in the pipeline in the UK, and the development of our new Anson Yard in Brunei, southeast Asia, we are on the correct trajectory to achieve our growth strategy.”
Earlier this month, the North Sea Transition Authority's latest estimates report stated that the cost of decommissioning the UK’s oil and gas infrastructure has come down by 25% in the past five years.
08.25.2022
