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Maximising your assets with safety in mind

# Late Life Management & Decommissioning

**Kent supports operators through the final phase of asset life, combining operations, engineering, and decommissioning expertise to manage risk, control cost and maintain safety from late-life operations through to final removal.**

[Speak to our team](https://kentplc.com/contact-us)

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Managing the transition, not just the endpoint

## How we work

Late-life assets bring competing pressures: maintaining production, preparing for decommissioning, managing workforce change and controlling cost.

We help operators manage this transition as a single, integrated phase, aligning operational decisions with end-of-life strategy early to reduce risk and avoid rework.

Integrated from the outset

Operations, engineering and decommissioning planning aligned early.

Stable, safe operations

Supporting performance while priorities shift toward end-of-life

Flexible delivery

Scalable support from targeted expertise to full duty holder.

Long-term partner

Continuity for programmes that span years

End-to-end late life and decommissioning capability

## What we deliver

We provide integrated support across the full transition from late-life operations to decommissioning execution.

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Late life operations and asset management

Asset integrity, operations and maintenance aligned to end-of-life.

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Technical authority and engineering support

Engineering and integrity expertise to guide decisions and reduce risk.

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Decommissioning planning and execution

Cessation of production preparation, strategy, and programme delivery.

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Well and subsurface (via Exceed)

Well integrity, plug and abandonment and subsurface decommissioning.

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Subsea, topsides and removal

Pipeline, subsea and topside preparation, removal, and heavy lift

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One accountable partner across the whole asset

## Why Kent?

Decommissioning is most effective when it is planned alongside late-life operations, not after them.

Kent brings together the capabilities required to manage the entire system, reducing interfaces and improving control:

- **Full asset coverage -** Topsides, subsea and subsurface delivered as one integrated scope
- **Flexible delivery models -** From specialist services to integrated teams or full asset responsibility
- **Financial strength and stability -** Privately owned and debt-free, providing long-term certainty and continuity for complex, multi-year decommissioning programmes
- **Technical depth where it matters -** Expertise across integrity, wells, subsea, facilities and decommissioning
- **Workforce transition managed properly -** Protecting knowledge, safety, and continuity during late life

[Projects](https://kentplc.com/projects)

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Proven across mature and emerging basins

## Our experience

Kent supports late-life and decommissioning programmes globally, applying lessons from mature regions such as the North Sea to assets worldwide.

Our global teams combine local delivery with the engineering and operational capability to support the full lifecycle of energy infrastructure.

[Explore our projects](https://kentplc.com/projects)

Late Life Management & Decommissioning

Let’s define the final phase together

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