Kinsale Head gas field to be decommissioned

Rig Alpha, part of the Kinsale Head Gas Field. The decommissioning work, which will take several years to complete, will include the removal of two giant off-shore rigs — Kinsale Alpha and Kinsale Bravo — which were installed as part of the initial field development in the late 1970s; and the plugging of wells.

A massive decommissioning of one of Ireland’’s largest gas fields has been approved as its reserves are about to be exhausted.