Tullow awards Thames area decommissioning contract

Tullow Oil has awarded a contract to Jee, to investigate the most appropriate options for decommissioning its Thames area assets – the Horne, Wren, Wissey, Orwell and Thurne fields in the southern North Sea. Tullow has submitted decommissioning programmes to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) which have been approved, along with a joint environmental impact assessment with Perenco (co-operator of the Thames field).

Tullow has asked Jee to review the approach specified in their decommissioning programmes for these assets, and re-define the most appropriate decommissioning options for the subsea sections. The study, due to be completed over the next two months, will assess what infrastructure can be left in situ. In instances where removal is deemed necessary, Jee will look for process efficiency to reduce associated costs.