Industry body Oil & Gas UK unveils a new decommissioning team. : Industry body Oil & Gas UK has unveiled a new decommissioning team which it says will focus on “providing insight into the shifting decommissioning landscape”. The new team is comprised of decommissioning consultant Richard Heard, decommissioning business adviser Sam George and decommissioning manager Joe Leask. “Decommissioning of North Sea oil and gas assets will take place over the next 30 years and more, with new field developments extending this time-line,” Oil & Gas UK Upstream Policy Director, Mike Tholen, said in an organization statement.