{
  "id": 772268,
  "title": "Decommissioning Spending in UK North Sea Hits Record High",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/decommissioning-spending-in-uk-north-sea-hits-record-high",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-13T13:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Decommissioning-Spending-in-UK-North-Sea-Hits-Record-High.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Decommissioning remained a major activity across the UK North Sea in 2025, with industry spending hitting a record-high of £2.6 billion, or $3.5 billion, the North Sea industry regulator said in a report on Thursday. Well decommissioning remains the single largest component of forecast decommissioning expenditure on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), accounting for around half of expected costs to…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}