Guidance
Complying with your decommissioning obligations
Complying with your decommissioning obligations
- NOPSEMA
- Guidance
- EnvironmentInspection and MaintenanceRegulation and LegislationStructural and Asset Integrity
- Regulation and legislationStructural and asset integrity
- DecommissioningInspection and maintenance
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
This brochure explains NOPSEMA’s expectations for decommissioning offshore oil and gas assets in Australia. It outlines tiered regulatory oversight, enforceable directions and planning throughout project life. It also discusses maintaining unused property, timely well abandonment and infrastructure removal, and conditions for considering alternatives to full removal.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Decommissioning; facility dismantling.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
The brochure explains regulatory expectations for planning, maintaining and safely removing offshore property during decommissioning.
Themes: environment, inspection and maintenance, regulation and legislation, structural and asset integrity.