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Shell Files Plan to Dismantle North Sea Oil Rigs

posted by on Friday February 10 2017, @03:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the navigational-hazards dept.

butthurt writes:

City A.M. (non-Cloudflare link) is reporting that Royal Dutch Shell has submitted to the British government its plans to dismantle its "four platforms, 154 wells and 28 pipelines" in the North Sea's Brent field, some of which have already ceased production. The company's Charlie platform continues to extract oil.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant submitted its programme to the department for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS), which has invited public responses to the proposals over the next 60 days. It will then analyse the feedback and decide whether to approve the plan.

"Any decommissioning plan will be carefully considered by the government, taking into account environmental, safety and cost implications, the impact on other users of the sea and a public consultation," Reuters reported a spokesman for the BEIS said.

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  • (Score: 2) by https on Saturday February 11 2017, @04:41AM

    by https (5248) on Saturday February 11 2017, @04:41AM (#465685) Journal

    davester666 posted,

    the ones they had to file way back when they started pumping out oil

    You are very hopeful. Optimistic, even.

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  • (Score: 2) by davester666 on Saturday February 11 2017, @11:06PM

    by davester666 (155) on Saturday February 11 2017, @11:06PM (#465930)

    I'm sure they did have to describe their "plan" for shutting down and dismantling their platforms, in great deal about how once it was all done, it would be impossible for someone to know they were ever there.

    Now, the plan is likely "we have no money to anything but rent some rowboats for the crew to row home. they may or may not remember to close the valves to prevent oil from flowing into the ocean"