Kishorn Port Ltd welcome the Northern Producer for Decommissioning
KPL and the team at Kishorn Port, welcomed the Northern Producer into the Dry Dock, on Sunday 8th October. In the following days the dock gates went back in, sealed and the dock pumped dry.
Preparation is now under way for the decommissioning, recycling and any possible re-use of the 12,500 Gt, which was built in 1976, semi-submersible floating production vessel.A huge shout out to KPL, Ferguson Transport & Shipping, the shore based marine services team, Green Marine (UK) Ltd, Jifmar Scotland, Shearwater Marine Services Ltd, Ross-shire Diving Services Ltd, Chisholm’s Recovery Specialists, Interocean Marine Services and of course our client Northern Offshore Ltd.
This has been a long time coming and we are delighted to have landed the contract to receive the vessel in for decommissioning and recycling. We believe that this will be the first time that works of this nature, will be carried out in a dry dock, with a semi- submersible FPV, a first for KPL and Kishorn Port under the EU recycling license. Some survey work will follow once high and dry and the necessary steps in our EU Licensing process will follow, working closely with SEPA, HSE the asset owner.
The future decommissioning, demolition and recycling of the Northern Producer will be carried out by lead contractor Liberty Industrial working closely with KPL and its partners.