NorSea Group (UK) Ltd and Scotoil Services Ltd, two of the leading service companies in the onshore decommissioning sector, have joined forces as NSDecom.
The new collaborative venture aims to deliver more efficient and cost effective benefits to the sector by providing a single project focal point for all services related to quayside and onshore decommissioning activity.
Targeted at operators, project managers and lead contractors, the new partnership combines the logistics expertise of NorSea Group with Scotoil’s track record of experience in waste management and NORM decontamination.
NSDecom will deliver onshore services from receipt of waste and equipment at the quayside through the cleaning and cutting process to reuse, recycle or disposal .
The main centre of operations will be at NorSea Group’s purpose-built, deep-water decommissioning facility at Smith Quay in Peterhead. Relevant licences are also in place at Aberdeen Harbour and NorSea’s supply base in Montrose.
“With the decommissioning sector being guided by SEPA, we recognised the importance of working alongside an experienced and well-established specialist waste contractor,” said Walter Robertson, MD of NorSea Group (UK).
“Scotoil Services has more than 30 years of experience and both parties saw the benefits to the sector of combing NorSea Group’s quayside assets and logistics experience with Scotoil’s market-leading NORM decontamination service and special waste management capabilities.”
Craig Smith, MD of Scotoil Services, said: “The collaborative alliance was developed in response to industry calls for more efficient and effective ways of working which would bring about lower costs and robust operational improvements.
He believed the new venture would benefit operators and lead decommissioning contractors.
Offshore decommissioning is said to herald a new beginning for the North Sea industry which is struggling to cope after the oil price collapse made production unviable and delivered a hammer blow to the north-east economy.
