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Brian Nixon , Chief  Executive Offshore Decommissioning Conference  Dunblane 46 October 2011 the wider decommissioning market place  nuclear and salvage
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Brian Nixon , Chief  Executive

Offshore Decommissioning Conference  – Dunblane 4‐6 October 2011

the wider decommissioning market place ‐ nuclear and salvage

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  many forthcoming projects will be “firsts” for their respective operators 

  decommissioning projects have  largely been “one‐offs”

  limited opportunity for learning  and knowledge transfer

  decommissioning cost estimates continuing to increase

  early

 

contractual 

experiences 

not 

always 

happy ‐

 for  operators

 or 

 contractors

  industry now genuinely seeking more co‐operation and innovation

  new technologies needed

some observations from 2010 Conference

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cross sector research ‐ what can we learn ?

nuclear

  first workshop in March 2011 ‐ joint 

working with ITF and Scottish 

Enterprise 

  second workshop

 16

 November

 

2011 in Glasgow  – joint working 

with Nuclear Industries Association

salvage

  initial seminar in December 2010 ‐

 joint working with SUT 

  second 

seminar on

 6th

 December

 

2011 in London  – again with SUT

potential synergies being identified and progressed

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nuclear strategy  ‐ next 10 years

  all Magnox stations

 to

 have

 been

 de

‐fuelled

 and

 

spent fuel reprocessed to a long‐term stable form

  three of  the Magnox sites to have entered the Care 

and Maintenance phase in readiness for final site 

clearance   significant progress to have been made on high 

hazard reduction programmes ‐ this includes the 

retrieval of  materials from Legacy Ponds and Silos at 

Sellafield

  the management of  all NDA sites to have been 

competed

  all

 

NDA’s 

non 

core 

assets 

to 

have 

been 

disposed 

of    to commence Surface‐Based Investigations Phase for 

the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF).

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top 3 challenges identified from first 

nuclear / oil

 &

 gas

 workshop

from nuclear

 :‐

  condition monitoring

  waste reduction

  remote underwater handling for active 

waste storage

from oil & gas :‐

  cutting technologies

  NORM issues

  mattresses

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possibilities with the salvage industry

initial focus resulting from December 2010 conference

  possible use of  standard form contracts in O&G decommissioning projects

  use of 

 (smaller)

 salvage

 lifting

 vessels

 and

 techniques

  review of  cutting and underwater visualisation technologies, plus design 

for decommissioning

  review of  marine science topics  – noise, disturbance, colonisation etc

agenda items for December 2011 conference

  concept of  oil & gas platforms achieving “hydrocarbon free”  status 

  comparison of  contractor selection and mobilisation criteria

 joint salvage & oil & gas committee meets 3‐4 times each year

to progress the possibilities

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Brian Nixon, Chief  Executive

work  in  progress!


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