Cygnus Alpha.Image byBristow, courtesy of ENGIEE&P

Photo © Mike Page SNS: Decades of future investment

World-class workforce £6 bn and supply chain with investment by 2030 more than The Southern North Sea (SNS) is at a pivotal stage, with 50 decades of investment and opportunity stretching ahead. years’ experience

With at least 30 years more gas production, alongside a multi-billion decommissioning industry to remove hundreds of tonnes of ageing infrastructure, the East of 30 years of existing gas 800+ GAS FIELDS GAS England is in prime place to be at the centre of both. reserves supply chain companies

The experienced oil & gas hub is ready to seize the “golden opportunity” to be the centre of excellence for SNS decommissioning with more than 50 years’ skills, £500 k expertise and innovative thinking to be trail blazers for its 8.8 tcf from New Anglia Local reserves next chapter. Enterprise Partnership Growing Business Fund. Support, advice and funding Its robust diverse supply chain is flexible, adapting for start-ups to high growth businesses by business systems, processes and technology to keep ahead in a specialists Nwes fast-changing world offshore. 40-50 years of tight gas production

With gas the interim fuel of choice, and major investment in new discoveries, a clear appetite exists to unlock the remaining potential of the SNS. 23,500 5 tcf jobs in its from existing reservoirs Incentives of Enterprise Zones and grants supporting and undeveloped 25-year investment and growth, extensive business support and discoveries lifespan the East of England Energy Zone’s unique ‘one voice’ partnership work to make the East of England the hotbed of leadership, opportunity and business growth for the next chapter of the SNS. Synergies between 8 to 10 oil & gas and offshore wells to be drilled each year wind increasing W: www.theenergyzone.co.uk for next 10 years efficiency ●

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Carbon Capture & Storage licence OPPORTUNITIES company withcommitment to theUKsupply chain.” Bill Cattanach, oftheOil&GasAuthority“Thisisa systems for longevity.” potential for thisarea andhave usedvery highgrade Operator EngieE&P’s KeithMurphy says,“We seegreat • • • • • • • England. “massive benefit for UKindustry” andtheEast of producing gasfieldintheUKNorthSea,isbringing The £1.3billionCygnusfield,thelargest single Cygnus field Cygnus Alpha.Imagecourtesy ofENGIEE&P UK Four platforms andtwo subseastructures Capacity for 1.5millionUKhomes At least seven years’ drilling 250 square kilometres estimated fieldsize 2017 First gasfrom second well CygnusBravo inAugust Production life ofmore than20years First gasflowed into Bacton inDecember 2016 “There isasignificant prize for to invest inthe UKCS/ NorthSea.” “These factors combined mean now isavery good time improvements to theUK fiscal regime. of theflexible Innovate Licence, technology and opportunity to rebuild theirportfolios; taking advantage Licensing Roundoffers companies asignificant Andy Samuel,OGA Chief Executive, said:“The30th • • • • the Oil&GasAuthorityinJuly 2017. opened upfor bidsin30thNorthSealicensing round by More than800oilandgasexploration blocks were A goodtimeto invest clear appetite to unlock thisremaining companies to access intheSNS. Activity levels amongst operators difficult and expensive, buttherea is potential intheSNS.” with tight gas opportunities is on with tightgasopportunitiesison the increase. Itischallenging work - Oil &GasAuthority. Eric Marston, SNSarea andIrishSeamanager, frontier areas inMarch 2017 for 111blocks orpartblocks to 17companies for 29th Offshore Licencing Roundawarded 25licences Supplementary RoundinJuly 2017 Twelve licences awarded to 10companies in Decisions expected spring2018 prospects andundeveloped discoveries SNS blocks onoffer includealarge inventory of this area.” it willbebeneficial for theUKandsupply chainin Mark Routh,IOGChiefExecutive: “Itisalot ofgasand • • • • IOG plansto: year by2020. a It willflow enoughgas to heatninemillionUKhomes owned gashubsinanestimated £300mcapital project. by IndependentOil&Gas(IOG)to flow from itswholly- The ThamesGaspipelineisbeingbrought backto life cubic feet ofgasto market into theBacton terminal. decommissioned gaspipelinewillbringhalfatrillion The pioneeringproject to recommission 60kofa90km Thames pipeline large discovery and islikely to bethethird hub. The Harvey appraisal asset hasbeenidentifieda Elgood andVulcan Satellite hubs Install upto five new platforms for theBlythe and Lay more than70kmofnew connector pipelines Drill 10wells ●

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Carbon Capture & Storage licence Global hub built for growth 55 years in Great Yarmouth

Energy services company Proserv invested in a new £7m Oilfield services company Simmons Edeco has doubled purpose-built technology centre for subsea controls and the size of its Great Yarmouth base, expanded its team communications in Great Yarmouth to accommodate its and opened a team in Denmark, bucking the trend in the future growth. oil and gas industry.

The move to the 65,000 sq ft Beacon Park site was From its European headquarters in Great Yarmouth, it designed to bring its 190 employees from two sites provides customers across Europe with wellhead and together in modern office, manufacturing and yard valve maintenance services, asset integrity solutions and space offering the flexibility to add a further 20,000 sq ft Cross-sector link saves £30,000 onshore drilling services. of workshop capacity. Almost £30,000 was saved on a late life operations In June, Maersk Oil awarded a contract for wellhead David Lamont, Proserv CEO, said: “As an established project on a SNS gas platform by offshore wind and valve maintenance services for all of its wells in the employer in the region since the 1960s, we have providing the solution. Danish North Sea. The company also landed contracts developed an outstanding workforce that is well with SSE, EDF Energy and others. recognised globally for its expertise and engineering Dalby Offshore, whose fleet of wind farm supply vessels capabilities. Investing in this new facility firmly are based in Great Yarmouth, provided a guard vessel to Brian Kelly, Valve and Well Services Manager, said

CASE STUDIES CASE underlines our long-term commitment to Great keep watch of the five-well gas platform when satellite “Being based in Great Yarmouth for the past 55 years has Yarmouth and plans for growth in the area. communications failed and towed its lifeboat back to played a major role in our success, and will continue to Great Yarmouth. do so. “Consolidating operations into a modern purpose-built site will make us leaner, more efficient and better To charter a standby vessel to keep watch of the platform “It’s ideal to be in close proximity to customers, placed to deliver for our global customer base, whilst and provide navigation lights would have cost £8000 a day preferably in a port. Plus, access to a network of reliable creating capacity for future expansion. The centre will and taken twice as long to get there. The Dalby vessel suppliers and a highly skilled workforce. In Great serve as a global hub and Centre of Excellence for our made it in two hours. The vessel, used to transport Yarmouth, we have that in our backyard, and draw upon subsea communication and controls activities and technicians to offshore wind farms, completed the job in every aspect to win work, serve customers and establish ensures we remain at the forefront of our field. 12 hours. A standby vessel would have been employed ourselves in new markets. Access to the Southern for 24 hours. North Sea and Europe has also been critical, providing opportunities and easy transport links to the Continent.” Dalby said it could provide a guard zone capability. Its vessels could get there in two hours. It would have taken the standby vessel more than four hours.

“There is the opportunity for synergies within different sectors in this geographical area - between offshore renewables and the oil and gas industry.

Eric Marston, SNS area and Irish Sea manager, Oil & Gas Authority. Future workforce “With state-of-the-art industry-led Business Support equipment and a refreshed training offer, this regional institute will create • There are a number of business support services • Investment in growing a highly-skilled workforce offered to businesses considering relocating to or • Industry works closely with education partners future capacity from pre-apprenticeship expanding in Norfolk and Suffolk. Support services • STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and through to high-level project include information on market opportunities, Maths) activities introducing children as young management of assets.” supply chain development, commercial property as primary school age to the oil & gas industry search, facilitating site visits, JVs and business networking; recruitment support and access to Specialist programmes by: Stuart Rimmer, Principal, East Coast College. finance and funding. • Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft have areas awarded • East of England Energy Group (EEEGR) ‘Enterprise Zone Status’, offering a number of SKILLS Skills for Energy benefits including business rates relief, simplified • Energy Skills Foundation Programme, planning and superfast broadband. East Coast College • University of East Anglia, Norwich, • New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP) industry-sponsored engineering degrees offers business financial support and grants of up • Engineering Construction Industry Training Board to £500k through the Growing Business Fund.

Multi-million energy skills centre to train • Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft are Tier 2 Assisted Areas which allows financial support to be provided workforce of the future to large businesses as well as SMEs. An £11.4m Energy Skills Centre at East Coast • Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft offer an ‘Oil & Gas College will train the future workforce for the Taskforce’, supporting businesses and the wider demands of a fast-changing industry. supply chain. The Taskforce stands ready to help and advise businesses across Norfolk and Suffolk With £10m secured from the New Anglia Local that are affected by the challenges facing the oil Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the centre will train and gas sector. for oil & gas and specialised decommissioning skills from the end of 2018. Investing in the future: Apprentice Kyle • The East of England Energy Group (EEEGR) is the Jerome starting his career with Gee-Force Hydraulics at its new Great Yarmouth base industry association for energy in the East of in an Enterprise Zone. England, representing over 300 members across the supply chain.

“The future skills pipeline is vital to make • EEEGR also Operates a number of Special the industry work.” Interest Groups (SIG’s), including Late Life and decommissioning SIG (with partners Decom North Sea) and Southern North Sea (SNS) rejuvenation Stuart Rimmer, Principal, East Coast College.

SIG in Association with the OGA and Oil and Gas UK. SUPPORT SKILLS & BUSINESS

The East Coast Institute of Technology for Energy Skills will train energy workers of the future with £10m investment from New Anglia LEP Growth Deal. FUTURE SNS and Irish Sea Decommissioning in the (Decommissioning Insight Report 2016, UK and Norway North Oil & Gas UK) in the next decade Sea to 2025

Total expenditure in SNS in next decade 100+ The East of England has the “golden opportunity” to £3 bn platforms become the world-class centre of excellence for SNS decommissioning.

More than 50 years’ experience of maintaining and commissioning SNS assets more than qualifies the 400 1,832 wells wells region to lead the late life management campaign and efficient and cost-effective decommissioning with game- changing solutions that support the demand to minimise costs and offer best value to the tax-payer. 3,426 km pipeline 7,500 km Its credentials, and highly competitive mindset, passion pipeline for new ideas and cost-efficient ethos, means it could be the centre for all shallow water decommissioning further afield, in the Netherlands, Denmark and beyond. DECOMMISSIONING 83 Forecasted topside modules decommissioning peaks A decommissioning facility created by a partnership of to be removed on 2017-19 Peterson and Veolia in Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour 67 and late platforms is already handling SNS recycling projects, including 2020s a Leman topside and jacket. It is poised for the industry’s peaks, predicted for the next two years and the late 2020s. 164,800+ tonnes Total UKCS decommissioning cost to come onshore for estimate (Oil 7 Gas Authority) “In Great Yarmouth, we have the golden opportunity. recycling and disposal £59.7 bn The platforms in the SNS are smaller and the SNS lends itself to piece small decommissioning in shallow water.” Tim Eley, Board of Directors, Decom North Sea Falling costs expected to make 10% final bill in next 10 years North Sea platforms and W: www.theenergyzone.co.uk wells decommissioned so far £39 bn CO NRIE

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Carbon Capture & Storage licence New model saving millions Decom yard busy with projects “Operators and regulators are planning for the inescapable responsibility of A new model for “mothballing” near end-of-life North Great Yarmouth took another step towards becoming decommissioning.” Sea platforms developed by a Great Yarmouth company a centre of excellence for decommissioning when the is saving an asset owner millions. Veolia and Peterson decommissioning facility welcomed its first topside. Decom North Sea Chief Executive Roger Esson. The Late in Life Operation (LILO) model designed by EPIC International for a five-well 24-year-old platform The Shell Leman BH topside and its 50-metre steel will save up to £12m in annual costs and liabilities jacket arrived at the purpose-built Veolia and Peterson for a major offshore asset owner while keeping its decommissioning facility in July 2017, after more options open either to continue production or fully than 80,000 tonnes of offshore materials had already decommission it. been recovered, achieving ‘excellent’ environmental assessment rating. All work on the contract - worth an estimated £500,00 a year - was undertaken out of Great Yarmouth with its The facility managed the deconstruction and recycling low cost base a big attraction for the owner. of the topside and jacket structures - 1,600 tonnes of Made in Great Yarmouth materials and assets - in the contract from Boskalis. EPIC International’s expertise working on Normally A Great Yarmouth company’s bespoke solar navigation aid system was used in the decommissioning of one of CASE STUDIES CASE Unattended Installations, (NUIs), and experience during Opened in 2016, the facility is ideally placed to manage commissioning of the platform made it the owner’s projects from the Southern and Central North Sea, the most iconic North Sea platforms. choice when looking for a new way to manage the asset. supporting the local economy and supply chain, with 10 new jobs, and future expansion and employment as the Pharos Marine Automatic Power (PMAP) designed, Managing director Dave Rowan said: “It involved projects develop. manufactured and installed the system for the Brent shutting the platform down, making it safe and looking Delta - one of four platforms on the Brent field off the after it. This is a marketable model for other operators, Shetland Islands - in just eight weeks. which removes the enormous overheads for platforms The Shell Leman BH topside PMAP, a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier that have diminished production and will either be is lowered onto the Veolia and revived or decommissioned in the future.” Peterson decommissioning of specialist and bespoke marine and aviation warning facility at Great Yarmouth. systems, produced and installed a customised solar- generated system of lanterns and radar warning system to lighthouse the platform.

The team worked closely with operator Shell to interpret “If we (the East of England) do this regulations that govern the marking of offshore right, we can take it to be world class structures during decommissioning to design the most cost-effective, safe and efficient solution. and be the centre of excellence, not just in the SNS, but for shallow water David Mann, navaids service manager, said: “One of our greatest strengths is interpreting the regulations decommissioning in the Netherlands, that govern the marking of man-made offshore during Denmark and beyond.” decommissioning to design the best solution for the clients.” Julian Manning, Chair of the East of England Energy “All systems are designed and manufactured and Group (EEEGR) Special Interest Group for Late Life and installed by our own engineers, with our systems being Decommissioning. fully tested at our premises prior to shipment.” Both Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft ports have Peel Ports, Great Yarmouth ABP Ports, Lowestoft been the UK’s leading centres for offshore gas exploration and extraction in the Southern North • England’s number one offshore support port • Long history of oil & gas operations Sea (SNS) for more than 50 years. • Second only to Aberdeen • Shell maintained its Southern Operations base in the They continue to grow, poised to be central to the harbour from the mid-1960s until 2003 expected future decades of gas operations and • Established centre of excellence decommissioning activity. • The port remains a centre for the oil and gas PORTS • Further enhanced by deep-water outer harbour industries in the Southern North Sea Sembmarine SLP, Lowestoft • Can accommodate most offshore support vessels, • Located directly opposite major continental ports Sembmarine SLP has over 40 years of unparalleled construction rigs and specialist vessels expertise and experience in the offshore energy industry • Serves busy sea routes between UK, Europe, and are proud to be the only true single-source EPIC • Experienced labour Scandinavia and Baltic States capability available in the UK. With a highly skilled local workforce and two load out quays, design, procure, • Facilities and support infrastructure • Home to large fleet of offshore standby/support manufacture and commission facilities for both oil/gas vessels and offshore renewable energy, both in the North Sea Decommissioning and Internationally. • Expertise and experience needed for end-of-life • Sembmarine SLP Engineering offers extensive installations facilities for the construction of large topside-deck Sembermarine SLP are currently supporting their structures and jackets destined for the North Sea and Parent Company - Sembcorp Offshore Platforms • Deep water other oil & gas fields and wind farms (SMOP) with the construction of Maersk Oil UK’s Culzean development specifically with the construction of the • Well-located quay space and back-up land Power Generation Module and two bridge structures at their Lowestoft facilities. • Partnership with specialist companies to meet the needs of project owners, suppliers and contractors Norwich International Airport www.peelports.com www.abports.co.uk Norwich International Airport, offers direct connections to over 20 destinations, including 4 flights per day to and from Amsterdam Schiphol, taking less than 1 hour. The Airport is a key hub for the Southern North Sea offshore oil and gas industry. 4 major offshore helicopter operators are based at the airport and annually over 100,000 passengers travelled offshore to installations in the Southern North Sea from Norwich. www.norwichairport.co.uk

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