Promoting re-use

The future holds many possibilities for equipment re-use in the oil and gas industry. The US is already an area that capitalises heavily in handling the removal, marketing and re-use of offshore structures and modules, some of considerable magnitude. In contrast, the re-use of equipment in the North Sea has, to date, been limited. It is precisely this area, however, that is set to benefit from a great deal of used equipment availability over the next two to three decades as decommissioning of North Sea platforms takes off.