Fairfield Energy to decommission North Sea oil platform

Posted on 11 May 2015 by Victoria Fitzgerald

Fairfield Energy has revealed plans to decommission its North Sea platform Dunlin Alpha, in a move that will cost £400m.

Work from all Dunlin cluster fields will cease operations in mid-June before the shut-down process. Representatives have said that Dunlin Alpha will continue to be “fully manned and operational”, exporting third-party oil into the Brent pipeline until that point. The decommissioning has been blamed on challenging conditions and the fall in…

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