Oil and Gas Contracts and Tenders

The North Sea Transition Authority is the licensing and regulatory body for oil and gas on the UK continental shelf, and it buys well decommissioning and plugging and abandonment work directly. The Scottish Government and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero procure oil and gas data services and market analysis to support energy policy. The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board runs apprenticeship and training contracts for the offshore workforce, and Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities runs a comparable petroleum safety framework.

Not many. Upstream oil and gas work is mostly bought and sold privately between operators and their supply chain, so the public notices that do appear sit around that private activity rather than being exploration or production work itself. Expect long gaps between new listings rather than a steady flow, and treat a saved search as more useful than browsing the category directly.

Decommissioning notices in this category cover the plugging and abandonment of oil and gas wells, planning projects for well decommissioning across the UK continental shelf, and the test facilities used to qualify new plugging materials and equipment. The North Sea Transition Authority has run planning work of this kind, and the National Decommissioning Centre at the University of Aberdeen has procured downhole testing facilities for the same purpose.

The relevant codes are 76000000 (Services related to the oil and gas industry), 76100000 (Professional services for the gas industry), 76200000 (Professional services for the oil industry), and 43121500 (Well-testing equipment). They cover a modest share of the category: plenty of on-intent notices carry no matching code at all, which is why this page filters on keywords rather than CPV codes.

Search this category by keyword, buyer or region, and save the search rather than checking back manually. Given how infrequently new oil and gas contracts appear on the public portals, a saved search is the more reliable way to stay on top of the category than browsing it directly.