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NSTA analysis of data submitted in the annual stewardship survey and the Technology Plans allows delineation of emerging trends related to industry focus on technology across the asset lifecycle, technology maturity, sourcing of technology, supply chain engagement and operator technology spend.​

In Facilities Decommissioning operators technology plans are reporting adoption of Digital Technologies such as Predictive Decommissioning modelling, Scheduling & Optimisation.

Following a significant fall off in 2020, Well P&A is showing an increase in reported number of technologies in 2022 data. Collaboration for Well P&A campaigns. Thru tubing logging, down hole wireless sensing.

Digital and Data Category has seen the largest growth of all the categories, The largest expansion of technologies in any sub-category is “Modelling & Analytics” has seen dramatic growth in 2022 data with multiple operator adoptions on multiple assets.

Greater numbers of Reservoir and Well Management technologies are being adopted by operators on multiple assets, improving knowledge of ongoing well status and monitoring of integrity issues, and reducing costs of interventions and dependence on costly rig based workovers.

Operators Technology plans are showing increased experience by operators in technology deployments to support subsea developments. In addition remote and automated subsea inspection technologies are reducing the number of offshore visits and manned interventions.​

Operators Technology plans shows increasing focus on more effective and cost-efficient methods of Seismic Acquisition, integrating with the subsequent processing and interpretation steps.

For decades, the UK North Sea has been a testbed for pioneering technologies used to produce billions of barrels of North Sea Oil & Gas, underpinning the UK’s energy security, and now with the energy transition we are actively...