Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK – John Lawrie Decom has completed the final stages of the Buchan Alpha platform decommissioning project.
The platform, which had previously operated at the Buchan oilfield in the UK central North Sea, was originally delivered to Shetland in August 2017 and the topsides downsized at Dales Voe.
Final stages of the project involved Ocean Kinetics moving the pontoons from their storage location onto the quayside at Greenhead Base, Aberdeen, with John Lawrie then starting its duties.
Following engineering planning and analysis to determine the safest and most efficient methodology, the decommissioning team downsized the four pontoon structures and associated steelwork, processing 2,841 metric tons (3,132 tons) of steel for recycling in 37 days, achieving a 100% recycling rate.
01/14/2021
