DeepOcean has been awarded a strategic contract to support bp in the decommissioning and recycling operations of subsea infrastructure at the Foinaven field, located west of the Shetland Islands in the United Kingdom.
Removal of Subsea Infrastructure at Foinaven
In this project, the company will be responsible for the removal of ten flexible processing pipelines along with three dynamic umbilicals associated with the field’s former FPSO floating unit. The recovery of a static umbilical and various auxiliary elements such as buoyancy systems, pipeline protections, and clamps installed on the seabed is also planned.
Additionally, DeepOcean will assume engineering services, project management, and offshore execution, coordinating operations from its base in Aberdeen. Offshore tasks will be performed using a high-capacity subsea construction vessel operated by the company itself.
Furthermore, the agreement between DeepOcean and bp is based on a commercial model previously used in other decommissioning projects, which allows for cost optimization and improved operational efficiency in this type of intervention in mature North Sea fields.
History of the Foinaven Field
The Foinaven field, discovered in 1992, began production in 1997 and extracted approximately 440 million barrels of oil before the removal of its FPSO in 2021, establishing itself as one of the significant developments in the region.
Likewise, the company emphasizes that subsea decommissioning has become an opportunity to apply advanced engineering and flexible operational models aimed at value recovery for clients.
Source and photo: DeepOcean
