Making strategic choices for mature offshore platforms is never straightforward. Options often involve major investments with widely different technical, commercial, and ESG implications.

For one of Neptune’s assets, choices ranged from transforming it into a mixed oil and gas hub to focusing primarily on gas development. Each strategy came with distinct trade-offs in lifecycle value, complexity, cessation of production (CoP) timing, and carbon footprint.

Traditional approaches struggled to capture this breadth. The result: uncertainty over whether decisions were aligned with both short-term efficiency and long-term resilience.