Apache North Sea Ltd. has appointed Well-Safe Solutions as lead contractor for Beryl field decommissioning in the UK North Sea. 

To support the project, Well-Safe Solutions has contracted platform-based drilling services and specialist technical solutions to Archer, which will provide well services solutions, wireline and coiled tubing, and a compact workover rig. Well-Safe Solutions has also awarded a contract to NMC Energy to provide the integration, commissioning, and topside decommissioning services.

Preparatory work is already under way on the subsurface, well engineering, and project management scopes for the project, with well operations due to start offshore on the Beryl Bravo platform wells in the summer. Subsea well decommissioning operations are scheduled to start in 2027, beginning a multi-year program of work.  

This is the second contract awarded by APA to Well-Safe Solutions this year, with the company also working on the decommissioning of APA’s Forties field. This additional contract brings the combined scope to more than 260 wells, making it one of the largest well decommissioning contracts awarded in the North Sea to date. 

Apache North Sea, a subsiduary of Apache Corp., operates Beryl and Forties. All production operations are expected to cease by year-end 2029 and all seven platforms and 260 wells will be decommissioned.