Overview
Tell us what activities will be most useful to you
The information we get from this survey will build on what we heard during our consultation in 2023 that helped us develop Australia’s Offshore Resources Decommissioning Roadmap. Your responses will help shape how the roadmap is implemented and which activities the Offshore Decommissioning Directorate focuses on in the short and long-term. This includes how we can best work with you.
This is one way of continuing the conversation on how the directorate can meet the needs of different organisations, groups or people.
Your answers will also help us set a baseline. This will help us assess how well we are meeting your needs and the objectives of the directorate over time.
An Australian decommissioning industry
Decommissioning is the final stage in the offshore energy production lifecycle. It involves removing or otherwise dealing with offshore infrastructure once the project is no longer operating.
We expect an estimated $60 billion worth of offshore decommissioning activity to occur over the next 5 decades.
To seize this economic opportunity, the Australian Government released Australia’s Offshore Resources Decommissioning Roadmap on 9 December 2024. The roadmap sets out a path for Australia to:
maximise the amount of decommissioning activity that happens domestically
maximise the efficiency and transparency of planned decommissioning activities
grow Australia’s industrial capability in decommissioning and materials management
create safe, high-quality jobs to service a growing decommissioning industry and ensure that the industry undertakes its decommissioning obligations in a timely, safe and environmentally responsible way.
The Offshore Decommissioning Directorate
We’ve set up the Offshore Decommissioning Directorate to help carry out the actions in the roadmap.
We heard from our consultation to develop the roadmap that the government can work with industry, research institutions, the workforce, First Nations groups, unions and communities. The government can work with these groups in areas such as:
improving transparency across the pipeline of decommissioning activity to help businesses plan investment decisions
encouraging collaboration between all levels of government, international jurisdictions and organisations involved in decommissioning
being a trusted partner and advisor on decommissioning policy matters that cut across governments, the industry and broader supply chain.
This survey is an important part of the directorate’s role to work collaboratively with businesses, community, and other organisations to build an offshore decommissioning industry.