Decommissioning & Abandonment Advisory

What will decommissioning and abandonment actually cost?

A Decommissioning and Abandonment Plan must state the amount to be contributed annually to the D&A Fund. That figure rests on a cost estimate, and the estimate rests on knowing what you actually have to remove. Send us your well schedule and facilities register. We price it obligation by obligation, and we tell you plainly what could not be priced and why.

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to the 9 September 2026 submission deadline for existing licences and leases, under Regulation 3(5)(c) of S.I. 15 of 2026.

The number is only half the answer

An estimate that hides its gaps is worth less than one that names them.

Any consultant can produce a total. The harder question, and the one a reviewer will ask, is what the total leaves out. Every obligation we cannot price defensibly is listed with the specific reason, so the estimate understates the liability by an amount you can see rather than by an amount you cannot.

Ref	Obligation	Low	Most likely	High
WPA-01	Well plug and abandonment, rig-based	$600,000	$2,100,000	$6,000,000
OFD-01	Flowstation demolition and removal	$250,000	$600,000	$1,400,000
SRR-01	Site remediation and restoration to close-out	$60,000	$300,000	$1,200,000
	Estimate total	$2,048,913	$5,786,932	$15,339,286
MDR-01	Not priced: disposal and recycling of recovered materials. No tonnage in the asset documentation supplied.

Extract from the specimen estimate. Synthetic field, illustrative figures.

What you receive

A priced schedule of the obligations the Regulations attach to your asset, each line carrying a low, most likely and high figure, its source, its price basis year, and how its quantity was derived.
A disclosed list of what could not be priced, with the specific reason for each. Nothing is silently included and nothing is silently dropped.
A document built to the conventions a reviewer expects: document number and revision status, basis of estimate, methodology, limitations, and a prepared, reviewed and approved strip left blank for your own sign-off.
Full provenance. Engine version, model version and run identifier are printed on the document, so the same identifiers reproduce the same estimate exactly.

How it works

You send what you holdA well schedule and facilities register is the usual form. Whatever exists is enough to begin.
We price itWe extract the asset picture, identify the D&A obligations that attach to it, and price the ones carrying a defensible cost basis.
You get the estimate and the gap listThe gap list is often the more useful half. It names exactly which records would move the number.

What we need from you

Well count and status, or a well schedule
Facilities: flowstations, plants, terminals, storage
Pipelines and flowlines, lengths and diameters
Terrain, location and installation year
Planned cessation of production date
Any existing D&A plan or prior estimate

Missing items are not an obstacle. Anything absent is disclosed as an unpriced obligation with its reason, rather than filled in with an assumption.

See a complete estimate first. A full document on a synthetic field, in exactly the form you would receive it.

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Your documents

Asset documentation is confidential and treated as such. It is used only to produce your estimate, it is not shared with third parties, and it is deleted on request. If you would prefer a non-disclosure agreement in place before sending anything, say so in your first email and we will handle that first.