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The Q7000 Heavy Well Intervention vessel (envisioned) was utilized to plug and officially desert wells throughout Tui Oil Field as part of the decommissioning job.
Picture: Provided/ MBIE

The last of the unfortunate Tui Oil Field’s subsea facilities has actually been gotten rid of and gone back to coast, bringing to a close its decommissioning.

The Tui field was deserted in 2019 after the monetary collapse of Tamarind Taranaki, leaving the Crown with a $300 million costs for its safe decommissioning.

The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment established the Tui Project to manage the procedure in 2020.

It stated there has actually been a big effort behind the scenes to make it safe, and eliminated about 700 tonnes of facilities from the subsea environment.

Attention now turns to post-decommissioning ecological tracking.

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