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This Decommissioning Delivery Programme builds on the Decommissioning Strategy and describes in more detail how and when near-term priority areas in decommissioning will be delivered

updated 20 May 2025

Repurposing offshore oil and gas infrastructure can reduce waste and accelerate energy transition.

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

Decommissioning cost estimates continue to fall and have reduced by a further 4% in 2021

The total estimated cost of decommissioning UKCS upstream oil and gas infrastructure has fallen by a further £1.5bn to £44.5bn, representing an overall decrease of about £15bn (25%) since the baseline forecast and cost reduction target were introduced in 2017

These documents report income and expenditure related to upstream oil and gas exploration and appraisal, development, operating and decommissioning activities in the UK and on the UK Continental Shelf.