Offshore staff
MELBOURNE, Australia – Esso Australia has opened the bidding process for decommissioning activities for various facilities on fields in the Gippsland Basin offshore Victoria.
The company is inviting heavy-lift contractors to submit proposals for completing the offshore removal, transportation and onshore recycling and disposal program at some of Australia’s longest producing offshore oil and gas fields.
“The technical tender completed at the end of last year was a successful process, which allowed us to assess a variety of ways in which the complex task of decommissioning offshore facilities could be undertaken,” said ExxonMobil Australia Chair Dylan Pugh.
In this next phase of decommissioning, he added, “we will commence the commercial tender process to better understand how activities could be completed safely, whilst meeting both regulator and community expectations. After assessment, we will award contracts by early 2024.”
Over the past five years, Esso Australia has completed almost $1 billion of early decommissioning works in the Bass Strait, including P&A of 88 wells offshore using two platform-based rigs, with a multi-purpose support vessel and a semisubmersible rig set to arrive later this year.
To date subsea facilities have been removed from the Seahorse, Blackback and Tarwhine accumulations, and P&A has finished on Whiting, Kingfish B, Mackerel and Fortescue.
05.23.2023
