RSRUK strikes decom deal for 40-year-old Nigg Oil Terminal

December 19, 2022

Aberdeen-based Repsol Sinopec has signed a take care of Liberty Industrial for the decontamination, demolition and web site remediation of Nigg Oil Terminal.

Planning and engineering work will start by the top of the 12 months with decommissioning work beginning in 2023 with a objective of completion by 2025, at which level the terminal shall be handed again to the leaseholder International Vitality Group.

The 75-acre facility consists of a large-scale crude oil course of, storage and export facility that may require decontamination previous to the demolition and web site remediation course of.

Liberty is ready to make sure all hazards are recognized, and dealt with accurately and safely, whereas working alongside Repsol Sinopec challenge and web site groups.

Liberty is a deconstruction, and remediation providers agency primarily based in Australia with UK workplaces in Teeside.

The Nigg Oil Terminal was commissioned in 1981 by the British Nationwide Oil Company as a part of the Beatrice complicated growth.

Earlier this 12 months Respol Sinopec’s then-chief govt, Jose Luis Muñoz informed Vitality Voice that the agency is ramping up decommissioning funding.

Vp of decommissioning and vitality transition at Respol Sinopec, Adam Sheikh, mentioned: “We goal to ship one of many North Sea’s most formidable decommissioning programmes within the years forward – together with the total decommissioning of our Nigg Onshore Terminal.

“This contract award represents a major milestone in our decommissioning journey and my thanks go to the groups for getting us to this stage.

“As an organization we intend to ship excellent decommissioning minimising environmental influence and as cost-efficiently as attainable.”

Respol Sinpec‘s decommissioning challenge supervisor, Simon Reid, added: “A complete tender course of was adopted inviting the UK’s main onshore decommissioning contractors to submit proposals for the challenge.

“The technical analysis centered on the contractor’s potential to exhibit protected and sturdy strategies, with a transparent understanding of the hazardous inventories, to ship the decommissioning scope in keeping with firm and regulatory necessities in an environment friendly and match for goal method.”

Contracts Director at Liberty, Jon Sowerby, commented: “The decommissioning challenge being undertaken by Repsol Sinopec at Nigg encompasses all Liberty Industrial’s specialist and modern service.

“This can be a vital milestone within the historical past of the Nigg web site, and Liberty Industrial is worked up to be a part of it.”

Nig Oil Refinery after 41 years

The processing space on the Nigg Oil Terminal which has had a significant oil leak – Printed within the Press and Journal in 2005

Repsol Sinopec handed over possession of the refinery jetty to International Vitality Group in 2019.

This got here as the ability stopped receiving throughput since manufacturing ceased from the Beatrice area within the Moray Firth.

Beatrice equipped Nigg for 35 years earlier than the sphere ceased manufacturing in 2016.

On the time, the terminal employed 40 workers which have been equipped by Wooden Group.

The Nigg Oil Terminal in Nigg on the Cromarty Firth. Printed within the Press and Journal in 2016.

Final 12 months, International Vitality Group introduced appeared to make the terminal inexperienced because it struck a take care of the world’s second-largest producer of methanol, Proman to develop inexperienced vitality.

The initiative was named the “Cromarty Clear Fuels Challenge”.