THE PROBLEM As part of their wider decommissioning programme in the Southern North Sea, an operator called on Claxton to abandon seven platform wells, plus one abandoned tieback well, across two of their platforms. This was a challenge for which Claxton was ideally qualified, given the track record of successful decommissioning campaigns in the North Sea over the past 23 years. This was the perfect opportunity for Claxton to deploy the subsea abrasive cutting system, SABRETM, as the Head of Decommissioning, Matt Marcantonio explained; “SABRE uses a mixture of air, water and abrasive garnet at up to 1,000 bar to cut through the multiple steel casings and any cement within the various annuli. The platforms both had complex requirements which meant we had to develop tooling and equ

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