Two-month delay in Tui decommissioning

The government has lost up to two months in its efforts to get an undersea inspection of the Tui oil field underway in preparation for decommissioning.In July, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment sought bids from firms interested in inspecting and testing the field’s five seafloor wellheads, and the lines linking them to the floating production and storage vessel Umuroa.The work, using a remotely-operated vehicle, was expected to get underway in August and be completed the same month but MBIE has now elected to re-tender t...