CODA Connect | February 2023

CODA's growing partner network

New strategic partnership with Go Radical P&A

Its primary objective is to drive radical change in the technology innovation, process efficiency and economics of well abandonment culminating in a 50% reduction in overall cost.  With well P&A accounting for a significant proportion of estimated total decommissioning liabilities worldwide, GRaPA has the potential to deliver leading-edge solutions with global impact.

Go Radical P&A is a great example of CODA’s ability to build strong connections into global initiatives that have immediate relevance to key decommissioning challenges here in Australia. ETN has secured the services of global well P&A experts Tim Croucher, Kjell Erik Drevdal and David Gardner to drive innovative thinking and connection to the large-scale communities of practice and novel technology providers that GRaPA will need to deliver its far-reaching goals.

We’re looking forward to working with the GRaPA team as they mature and accelerate their innovation programme and providing them with visibility of relevant challenges and opportunities as the Australian decommissioning journey gets up to full speed.

Partner spotlight: Xodus

Xodus is an independent, energy consultancy with over 16 years’ experience in the Energy Industry. Their experts help clients overcome challenges, and maximise return on investment, responsibly. Their vision is “Together we will deliver a responsible energy future”, underpinning their focus on New Energies and Decarbonisation.

Xodus is a trusted advisor to operators, non-operating JVs and government bodies. They are a strategic partner at every phase of the decommissioning lifecycle from late life operation optimisation, early planning and strategy development through to execution support and project close-out with a proven track record of 250+ decom scopes globally.  They have both engineering and regulatory approvals experts minimising interfaces and maximising value for clients, with a primary focus on ensuring the best environmental outcome is achieved.

Xodus believe that successful decommissioning is not just about ‘how’ to decommission, but instead it is reliant on finding an approach to delivering success on all elements including:

• Late life Operational Excellence;
• Decommissioning Strategy and Advisory, including Contaminant Advisory service;
• Decommissioning Planning, engineering and cost estimation;
• Policy, Regulatory Compliance and Financial Assurance
• Decommissioning Execution; and
• Post-Decommissioning Liabilities.

With specialist engineers, consultants, and scientists across multiple disciplines, they combine skills to deliver a truly integrated offering.

Xodus pride themselves in being able to engage and work closely with clients to solve complex problems and deliver robust and dependable solutions.  Their one-team approach is underpinned by their values of trust, excellence, and responsibility.

New report released

We're pleased to announce the release of our latest report Decommissioning Innovation and Technology Roadmap, the full version of which has now been shared with all our partners.

This report includes the development of an innovation and technology roadmap that identifies key opportunities within the decommissioning work breakdown structure that would benefit from applying innovative approaches and technologies. The roadmap focusses on Australia’s offshore Oil and Gas assets and draws upon technology currently used or emerging in other centres of decommissioning activity such as the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

The report also identifies roadblocks and opportunities to innovate specifically for the Australian market. The Roadmap serves as an alignment tool for Operators and service providers and plays an important role in the transformation of the industry approach to decommissioning.

The executive summary is publicly available on our website.

CODA at AOG Energy 2023, 15-17 March

CODA at D&A AUS 2023, 30-31 May

NDRI (National Decommissioning Research Initiative) update 

NDRI continues to do important research to better understand the impacts of decommissioning oil and gas structures on the Australian marine environment.

NDRI at AOG Energy 2023

15 March, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
We at the NDRI are proud of our collaboration with Australian universities and top research bodies, and at AOG next month we will highlight a selection of research areas completed in 2022.

Join us at the CODA stand (L26) for the opportunity to hear firsthand what the researchers can conclude from the studies they led.

Research Roadmap

Delivered in Q4 2022, the project’s aim was to define the priority research questions and knowledge gaps which will act as differentiators in the decision making and approval for decommissioning Australian offshore oil and gas infrastructure over the next 10-20 years. The output from this consultation process has been used and will continue to be used to advise the next phase of the NDRI research from 2022 and beyond.

New paper published

The NDRI is excited to announce another paper it has facilitated - Threshold values for the protection of marine ecosystems from NORM in subsea oil and gas infrastructure - has now been published.

Be sure to visit our frequently updated research library to view this and other important environmental and marine research related to decommissioning.