InfieldDecommissioning - Decommissioning Sector Market Intelligence

Infield Systems provides the offshore decommissioning sector with transaction and strategic support by providing analysis, data and consultancy through the lifecycle of an oil and gas field. Infield presents the operational base of offshore infrastructure, including platforms, wells and pipelines by utilising its proprietary Offshore Energy Database and OFFPEX Forecast and Modelling System. This operational base of infrastructure provides industry stakeholders with a target list of decommissioning opportunities in order to gauge the size of the decommissioning market as well as its value and prospectivity over a five year forecast period.

The operational base of infrastructure can be viewed in conjunction with Infield’s detailed Specialist Vessels Database, a record of each competitive asset within the offshore construction vessel supply chain. The Specialist Vessels Database covers vessel characteristics and capabilities such as: owners, operators, lifting capacity and region of operation.

Infield’s decommissioning tools have been utilised to support investment decisions in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico and South East Asia in addition to providing on-going analytical support to a range of vessel owners, operators and service providers. The level of detailed contained within the twin databases and Infield’s analysts’ extensive experience within the market provide a vital tool when gauging the health of the nascent industry.

Infield Systems’ Consulting Services team works with many of the leading oilfield service providers and operators as well as with the private equity and banking markets, providing research, data and detailed analysis about the oil, gas and marine market sectors. Using the various in-house datasets and models, this team can provide meaningful analysis and support relating to our clients specific requirements. Our decommissioning capabilities include:.

• Decommissioning outlook by region and country
• Decommissioning scenarios and sensitivities under different commodity prices
• Decommissioning legislation analysis and frameworks by country

We can apply different modelling scenarios to the base data in order to present a more accurate representation of decommissioning according to the requirements of our clients. Whilst platform shut down dates can be used as a base driver, continually improving techniques to extend the life of fields can significantly alter these timeframes. As a result, we recommend applying models which forecast field depletion as a base scenario, which is widely considered to provide a more accurate reflection of the likely decommissioning needs of the associated infrastructure. In addition, we analyse the typical sequence and duration of field infrastructure removal after the cessation of production. Typically, focus resides upon fixed platforms, however wells and subsea decommissioning activity can also be considered. Given activity is highly specialised, it is also often necessary to factor in to the model other considerations, such as the supply of necessary assets to conduct these services as well as the age of the local infrastructure and anticipated market delays. We can also add in different factors to provide base case, mid case and high case model variations depending on the approach of our clients.

Other Decommissioning Products and Services:

We have various other products and services relating to decommissioning. These include databases of fixed platforms which include planned removal dates based upon the operator’s current expectations. Our platforms database of both fixed and floating facilities range from facilities installed in 1947 through to today and forward through to 2025, worldwide. We also track all historic projects: removed, shut in and abandoned. We also have two specific decommissioning online mapping and data packages highlighting decommissioning in the North Sea and our Idle Iron Service for the Gulf of Mexico. Please contact us to obtain a sample login.