NEWS Issue No. 3
February 2011
The Way Forward As we approach the end of our first year of operations, the Board of Decom North Sea (DNS) has taken time to pause and review performance of the organisation to date, and importantly to discuss and set the parameters for our strategic direction in the years ahead.
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Director’s foreword Trade Mission to Norway
This has been achieved using two discreet sources of industry advice. Firstly, we carefully reviewed and analysed the individual discussions conducted by a group of our directors with senior officials of DNS member companies during the latter part of 2010. This provided valuable feedback on what initially attracted companies to become members and, importantly, to identify which areas and initiatives they recommend for future attention.
Future newsletters
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Forthcoming DNS events and
Secondly, having enlarged the DNS Board to ensure appropriate representation from the industry, we were able to identify the issues and opportunities facing most sectors of the industry. Through a facilitated workshop in January 2011, we have developed a forward strategy for the organisation based on members’feedback and also on the experience and knowledge of the decommissioning experts that make up our Board. Compelling support was recorded for Decom North Sea to continue (and if possible increase) its current activities, namely networking events which provide value to our members; regional and topical focus groups; industry communication and knowledge sharing; mapping the supply chain strengths and capabilities; further development of appropriate contracting models: and facilitating introductions across the industry. In addition, a range of more strategic initiatives and opportunities were identified and prioritised including the following:■ provision of detailed market intelligence drawn from existing industry sources and filtered to be easily accessible by our members ■ facilitate groups of members to share information, form alliances, address technologies etc.
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Douglas-Westwood becomes 100th member of Decom North Sea
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Members News: Proserv Offshore RAM Tubulars Scotland Ltd Falck Nutec Peterhead Decommissioning
■ research decommissioning in other sectors including nuclear and salvage, to study how they deal with timing uncertainty, identify areas for transfer of experience, cross business opportunities etc. ■ be active with governments, regulators and operators on behalf of our membership ■ understand capabilities and gaps relating to people, processes and technologies, and then put in place mechanisms to addresses the issues and opportunities
BMT Cordah TETRA Technologies Inc Norse Cutting and Abandonment M&E Global Resources Acteon
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■ promote existing capability, new capacity, case studies etc. ■ engage with the financial investment community to understand their drivers – promote awareness of members capabilities and needs, facilitate introductions
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