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The North Sea Transition Authority is the competent authority for all onshore and offshore well activity including well decommissioning.

In Facilities Decommissioning operators technology plans are reporting adoption of Digital Technologies such as Predictive Decommissioning modelling, Scheduling & Optimisation.

The Well Decommissioning Steering Group (WDSG) is part of the North Sea Transition Forum Wells Task Force.

The Decommissioning and Repurposing Taskforce’s (DaRT) objective is to support industry to reduce the cost of decommissioning and assist the Government with meeting its net zero target, by providing strategic direction, oversight and delivery of key projects.

Companies have a legal duty to decommission platforms and pipelines in a safe and cost-efficient manner once production operations have permanently stopped at their oil and gas fields.