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Report by Xodus

This report provides comparison data which benchmarks a wide range of UKCS decommissioning activities

Report by Summit Energy Evolution Limited

This document (‘guidance’) provides updated guidance on the Authority’s requirements for the reporting of Information and Samples that are retained by relevant persons under the Oil and Gas Authority (Offshore Petroleum) (Retention of Information and Samples) Regulations 2018

The model clauses do not impose any requirement for approval of a change of control of a Licensee, for example, a corporate takeover, but they do grant NSTA the power to require a further change of control, and failing that a power of revocation.

The NSTA operates a licensing regime that gives companies exclusive rights to search, bore for and get petroleum. Petroleum licences are issued after a competitive process, usually a licensing round.

Remote and autonomous inspection technologies able to reduce the number of offshore visits and manned interventions. Design advances include vacuum insulated tubing for subsea HPHT tiebacks, and progress in subsea processing and pressure boosting.

Stuart Payne, the NSTA's Chief Executive, delivered the keynote speech at the Decom Week Exhibition and Conference in Aberdeen on 17 May 2023.