CESSCON DECOM launches new decommissioning hub in Aberdeen

CessCon Decom has launched a decommissioning hub at the Port of Aberdeen’s £400 million South Harbour expansion, creating up to 50 new jobs.

The new hub is located within the Crathes Quay at the South Harbour and delivers dismantling, recycling, and reuse services with a key focus on subsea infrastructure. The facility has been established between CessCon and the Port of Aberdeen, which aims to establish Aberdeen as a centre of excellence and port of choice for the offshore decommissioning sector. The facility complements and expands the decommissioning services currently offered at CessCon’s Energy Park Fife Decommissioning Facility.

The South Harbour decommissioning hub offers heavy lift zones, impermeable concrete dismantlement and processing areas, water collection and treatment facilities, material storage areas, offices, and canteen facilities.

CessCon is committed to the circular economy and the reuse and repurposing of equipment is a primary objective on all projects. The company has a minimum target on all projects of 98% reuse and recycling (by weight) of all material and has achieved over 99% reuse and recycling on several projects to date.

Lee Hanlon, Chief Executive Officer, CessCon Decom, said: “The new facility is capable of handling turnkey decommissioning projects and the associated vessels. All services including offload of structures, NORM and hazardous waste removal, dismantlement, recovery of items for reuse, and separation to fraction level will be completed at the facility, with recyclable materials transported from the quay to Europe for recycling into new products.

"The substantial laydown, processing areas and water depths allow us to accommodate vessels up to 300m in length. With direct access to the North Sea, the facility is well placed to service the growing decommissioning market in parallel with our Energy Park Fife Decommissioning Facility in Methil, Fife.

“The move is the latest stage in our plans to capitalise on the huge North Sea decommissioning market. Our ongoing project to decommission, reuse and recycle Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay DP3 & DP4 platforms at our Energy Park Fife facility is going very well and with further projects in the pipeline in the UK, and the development of our new Anson International yard in Brunei, South East Asia, we are on route to achieve our growth strategy.”

Lee Hanlon and Bob Sanguinetti