CODA Connect | November 2022

With a few exciting months behind us, we have so much news to share: our growing list of partners, expanding team, upcoming events and the launch of our new website!

CODA's list of partners is growing

Since June, CODA is proud and excited to welcome several new partners on board as part of our partnership program. We are thrilled to be working with such a diverse number of businesses who have a wealth of different decommissioning services, offerings, skills and capabilities available. Keep an eye out as we will be spotlighting our partners and their capabilities over the coming months both through our newsletter and LinkedIn.

Join CODA’s Partnership Program

CODA’s Partnership Program enables companies of all sizes in the decommissioning value chain to make modest financial contributions and become partners with CODA. These monetary contributions will give our partners access to materials such as full versions of our recently completed studies and associated materials and more, while helping us to undertake more collaborative work.

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CODA's team is expanding!

November has welcomed new members to the CODA team:

Shaun Sadler

CODA welcomes Shaun as General Manager.

Shaun joins CODA with over 30 years experience in the energy sector, broadening from a geoscience background into project management, strategy and leadership. After spending 10 years in the service sector, Shaun went on to work for operating companies in the UK, USA and Australia before diversifying into emissions management and innovation strategy roles.

Shaun is excited to have joined the CODA team and is passionate about the opportunity that decommissioning represents for Australia.

Pawel Rybczynski

Pawel Joins CODA as the new Communications, Brand and Digital Media specialist.

With over a decade of digital marketing experience at Curtin University and 4 years as a Project Manager within a branding and communications agency based in Vienna, Austria - Pawel looks to strengthen the Centre's digital presence and solidify its position as a leader in building a local, Australian decommissioning industry.

Cassy Schmidt

With the completion of phase one, Samantha Jarvis handed over the reins to Cassy Schmidt to lead the NDRI as the Program Director for phase two. We would like to thank Sam for her leadership and contribution to the NDRI and the important research that has been produced from phase one, recognising the significant body of work that Sam executed to get the NDRI to this point.

'Thank you to all the industry partners and researchers that I have had the opportunity to work with over the last year and I am pleased to be handing over the reins to Cassy who will do a great job leading the next chapter for NDRI' - Samantha Jarvis

Cassy is an Environmental scientist joining NDRI and CODA with a background in managing complex environmental approvals and research projects for both offshore and onshore exploration and production companies. Cassy started her career working for Australian and multinational oil and gas operators both here and in the UK, she has spent the later part of her career as a consultant managing environmental impact assessments and regulatory approvals for projects in Northern Australia.

Further updates of the NDRI as well as completed phase one research outcomes can be found further down the newsletter.

New website launched

We're thrilled to announce that the next phase of CODA’s website evolution is now live. The focus with this phase has been on enhancing user experience through refinements in the website's overall design.

Development however is continuing and we're working on expanding our website's capabilities soon by launching features such as our highly anticipated partner portal, as well as the publicly accessible capability index highlighting different businesses in the decommissioning industry.

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Events

CODA is very excited to be taking part in the following calendar of decommissioning events over the coming months:

Subsea Energy Australia Decommissioning Sundowner - Nov 23

CODA is a proud sponsor of SEA’s Decommissioning Sundowner. Join us to hear guest speakers from Woodside, Petrofac and CODA discuss key opportunities and challenges.

AOG Energy 2023 - Mar 15-17 2023

CODA is delighted to be taking a leading role in the planning, preparation and delivery of AOG Energy 2023, where we will be coordinating and hosting two decommissioning sessions on Day 1.

D&A AUS 2023 - May 30-31 2023

D&A AUS, in partnership with CODA, will be bringing together Australia’s decommissioning industry to map out upcoming projects, lessons learnt, best practices and the trailblazing technology available to improve future operations, collaboration, waste management and recycling programmes.

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OEUK Offshore Decommissioning Conference 2022 - Nov 21-23

Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) is hosting the Offshore Decommissioning Conference 2022 both in person and virtually from 21 – 23 November at the Fairmont in St Andrews, Scotland. The theme of the conference is Energising Decommissioning, where we’ll be having thought provoking discussions highlighting successes, ideas, challenges and lessons with over 400 in person attendees and over 150 virtual attendees. The event will be a celebration of offshore decommissioning and will highlight the opportunities still to come.

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 and we are excited to provide an update on the completion of phase one and planning for phase two.

Phase one complete

With phase one of the NDRI now wrapped up, we have a wealth of research outcomes available for review on our website.

view phase one research outcomes

Visit our research library to view further published reports from the NDRI as well as other environmental and marine research related to decommissioning. Over the coming months additional NDRI papers will be added to the library – so keep an eye out.

NDRI Symposium 2022

In July the NDRI reached a major milestone with the 2022 symposium wrapping up the Phase one research outcomes. Each study lead presented their findings (in person) and the brief recordings are now available:

Phase two underway

Phase two has now begun and we're excited to keep you updated throughout its progress.

Research projects in this phase will focus on contaminants of concern and engagement has commenced with regulators, government and fisheries - our key stakeholders - to align expectations and ensure the successful outcome of this phase.

To be kept up-to-date with the NDRI Projects and other news, follow NDRI on LinkedIn.