Decommissioning Structures

QinetiQ has been successful in the decommissioning market for several years now since our involvement in the Maureen project for Phillips in 2002.

We offer an unrivalled maritime engineering consultancy in terms of corrosion and material knowledge, design, and lifetime platform monitoring.

In the military domain we have been closely involved in designing, modifying and monitoring military structures in order to achieve a life time well beyond their existing design criteria. This is directly translated to the oil and gas industry looking at associated structures in terms of life time analysis and looking at novel ways of efficiently removing these structures.

The QinetiQ HyEx process uses a combination of hydroabrasion, structure monitoring and shaped charge explosives to remove jackets quickly and efficiently compared to other methods.

We know how to apply mitigating techniques to use explosives safely in the marine environment without causing damage to the habitat of marine mammals and other life. This, coupled with the QinetiQ environmental impact and monitoring team, makes QinetiQ the one stop shop for decommissioning activities in the North Sea environment.