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In this issue of CODA Connect, we welcome new partners, spotlight CODA Partner Stress Engineering Services, launch our latest Special Interest Group, and welcome new members to our Industry Advisory Committee. We also share the latest updates from the National Decommissioning Research Initiative (NDRI).
CODA's Growing Partner Network
We are proud to welcome a number of new organisations to our partner network.
Join CODA’s Partnership Program
CODA’s Partnership Program is open to companies of all sizes in the decommissioning value chain. Our partners receive access to full versions of our Forward Outlook and Waste Facilities databases, reports, studies, their associated materials, and more.
Partner Spotlight: Stress Engineering Services
Independent Engineering Since 1972
Stress Engineering Services was founded in 1972 by engineers who believed that independent thinking produces better engineering. More than 50 years later, that conviction remains the foundation of the company.
SES is 100% employee-owned. Every engineer who works on your asset has a professional reputation and a personal equity stake behind their analysis. More than a governance detail, It is the reason the company's findings mean something different from those of a firm billing hours toward a quarterly target.
SES provides engineering services across the full oil and gas lifecycle, with deep practice areas in upstream, midstream and downstream operations. Its work spans structural and mechanical integrity, instrumentation and data, materials engineering, forensics and failure analysis, testing, and advanced simulation. Beyond oil and gas, SES serves aerospace and defence, consumer products, medical and pharmaceutical, transportation, and industrial sectors, bringing the same independent engineering rigour to every engagement.
Supporting the Full Asset Lifecycle
In the offshore energy upstream drilling sector, SES's core focus is drilling systems, wellhead integrity, riser fatigue, and plug and abandonment engineering. Its teams have spent decades developing and validating analysis techniques for drilling risers, wellhead and conductor casing fatigue, BOP structural assessment, and the full range of well integrity challenges that define late-life and decommissioning operations. This depth of practice is the foundation on which NeoSight was built.
In the offshore energy upstream production sector, SES's core focus is the asset production lifecycle, including design, manufacture, testing, operability and life extension of floaters (structures), risers, tendons and mooring systems, supported by a full marine assurance service.
Turning Data into Engineering Insight with NeoSight
The decisions that matter most in late-life asset management are the ones where the engineering data is missing, incomplete, or months out of date. Operators making billion-dollar life extension and decommissioning timing decisions have historically done so with inspection data that is old, analysis tools designed for original design conditions, and no continuous physics-based view of how fatigue is accumulating in real time. SES built NeoSight to close that gap.
NeoSight is a physics-based digital twin platform that simulates how assets respond to load, fatigue and environmental conditions. It processes sensor data from existing instrumentation, as well as bespoke instrumentation where required, into structural intelligence in minutes rather than months.
The platform covers every critical location across drilling riser systems and floating production systems, including risers, mooring lines, tendons and umbilicals. It also provides visibility of locations that were never instrumented by using virtual sensors derived from the same physics models that govern the structure itself.
The result is a continuous, defensible record of structural state: how much fatigue has accumulated, where the next failure is most likely to initiate, and how much operating life remains. That record supports NOPSEMA structural integrity requirements, life extension safety cases, and decommissioning timing decisions based on engineering evidence rather than regulatory deadlines.
As an independent, employee-owned engineering consultancy, SES has no operator equity relationships, no decommissioning execution revenue, and no commercial incentive beyond delivering objective engineering advice. The company's engineers own the business and stand behind every assessment they produce.
More Information
For more information on Stress Engineering Services, please visit their website.
Updates From CODA
Women in Decommissioning Special Interest Group
Our latest group is designed to strengthen career pathways, knowledge sharing and mentoring opportunities for women working across the multidisciplinary decommissioning workforce, including engineering, environment, regulation, marine, logistics, commercial and related fields.
Unlike our other groups, membership to the Women in Decommissioning SIG is open to CODA Partners and non-partners alike.
Welcoming our New Industry Advisory Committee Members
We are pleased to welcome three new members to its Industry Advisory Committee (IAC), with operator representatives Andrew O’Connor from Chevron Australia and Tom Lukatela from Woodside, along with Idris Mohammad Jaafar joining the committee as an Independent Member.
Partners Receive Discount on ICCPM Complexity Qualification
As part of our strategic partnership with the International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM), CODA Partners can access a $300 discount on ICCPM’s nationally accredited Certificate IV in Navigating Project Complexity (11420NAT).
The opportunity aims to support professionals facing increasingly complex operating environments, where uncertainty, interconnected risks, stakeholder challenges and rapid change are becoming defining features of project delivery.
Upcoming Webinars
WED, AUG 5 | 3:30–4:40 PM UTC+8
Mercury Removal Technologies for Oil & Gas Decommissioning
Join us for our upcoming webinar with CODA Partner OLEOLOGY, as we explore the challenges of mercury management in oil & gas decommissioning and the role of treatment technologies in supporting project planning, execution and environmental management.
THU, SEP 3 | 8:00–9:00 AM UTC+8
Neosight: Safer Shallow Water P&A with Digital Twins
Join us for our upcoming webinar with CODA Partner Stress Engineering Services, as we explore how physics based Digital Twin technology, augmented with IoT, is enabling safer plug and abandonment (P&A) of wells in shallow water.
Latest Podcasts
A Discussion with NOPSEMA: Australia's Offshore Regulator
CEO Francis Norman sits down with Sue McCarrey, CEO of NOPSEMA, to discuss the regulator's role in Australia's evolving offshore decommissioning industry.
Women in Decommissioning
CODA General Manager Rean Gilbert is joined by CODA CEO Francis Norman, CODA Board Member Pia Turcinov, XODUS Decommissioning Manager Carrie McIntosh, CB&I Commercial Director APAC Simona Chady, and CODA Communications Lead Pawel Rybczynski to discuss the launch of CODA's new Women in Decommissioning Special Interest Group.
Industry & CODA Partner News
UNIQUE GROUP
Unique Group, global leaders in subsea technologies and engineering, has announced the appointment of Giovanni Corbetta as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective from July 1, 2026.
Giovanni brings more than three decades of leadership experience across the offshore energy, subsea, marine services, engineering, and defence sectors. Throughout his career, he has successfully led businesses across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas, building a strong track record in operational excellence, business transformation, acquisition integration, and sustainable growth.
JAMES FISHER + AQUATERRA
Aquaterra Energy, a leading provider of intelligently-engineered products and services for well access and offshore developments and James Fisher and Sons plc (James Fisher), a global provider of specialist marine and energy solutions driving offshore energy forward, have formed a strategic global partnership to streamline offshore decommissioning delivery. The collaboration provides operators with a single, integrated route to plan and execute well abandonment and infrastructure removal programmes more efficiently, with fewer interfaces and greater execution certainty.
You Might Be Interested In
10-11 NOV 2026, PERTH - AUSTRALIA
ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Following this year's Decommissioning & Abandonment Conference, the new event will bring industry together to explore asset integrity management, including technology, regulatory compliance, operational performance and approaches to maintaining safe and reliable assets throughout the asset lifecycle.
12 NOV 2026, PERTH - AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIAN DECOMMISSIONING & ABANDONMENT AWARDS 2026
Submissions close 28 August 2026
The inaugural D&A Awards Australia are officially open for submissions. These awards recognise the projects, technologies and teams that are shaping the future of decommissioning across Australia and the wider region. Whether you delivered an outstanding project, developed an innovative technology or demonstrated exceptional collaboration, now is your opportunity to be recognised by your industry peers.
1-2 DEC 2026, BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - BRUNEI
SPE SYMPOSIUM:
ASIA PACIFIC SUSTAINABLE FACILITIES DECOMMISSIONING
Call for abstracts open until 3 August 2026
The symposium aims to bring together operators, regulators, service providers, technology innovators, and subject matter experts to exchange practical insights, share lessons learnt, and explore forward-looking solutions shaping the next phase of asset retirement across the region.
NDRI (National Decommissioning Research Initiative) Update
The NDRI continues to do important research to better understand the impacts of decommissioning oil and gas structures on the Australian marine environment.
NDRI at D&A AUS 2026
The recent D&A AUS 2026 Conference provided a valuable opportunity for NDRI to connect with participants, service providers, regulators and researchers from across Australia and overseas. Our conversations reinforced the importance of continuing to build the scientific evidence needed to support informed, evidence-based and transparent decommissioning decisions.
It was a pleasure to welcome members of our Independent Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB), Professor Peter Macreadie, Dr Sarah Gall and Dr Karl Bowles to Perth. Their visit extended well beyond the conference proceedings to include discussions with regulators, research partners and industry participants, as well as a dedicated workshop to guide our latest project. These discussions continue to strengthen our partnerships and the scientific direction of the program.
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to our ISAB members for their time and expertise, and to all those who took the time to meet with NDRI throughout D&A week. Whether at the CODA/NDRI stand, during conference sessions, or in meetings across Perth, we appreciate the willingness to share diverse perspectives, ideas, priorities and challenges.
New Research Papers Added to NDRI Library
Two papers have been published to the NDRI decommissioning research library:
Characterising subsea gas pipeline contaminants to inform decommissioning practices, an ecosystem perspective.
Authored by Tom Cresswell, Henri Wong, Matthew Johansen, Peter Kappen, Jessica Hamilton, Gissi Francesca, Sue Brown, Lhiam Paton, and Simon Apte, this paper assesses pipeline pigging dust for inorganic and radionuclide constituents and provides new information about the concentration and form of these contaminants.
Evaluating Hg speciation in an offshore gas export pipeline and the utility of pXRF for screening Hg contamination
Authored by Lhiam Paton, Peter Kappen, Pauline Treble, Bernt Johannessen, Jessica Hamilton and Tom Cresswell, this paper investigates mercury (Hg) contamination and speciation within a decommissioned offshore gas export pipeline to better understand potential environmental considerations associated with leave-in-place decommissioning strategies.
