Built on Two Decades of Gulf of Mexico Expertise
MCOP DECOM was founded by a leadership team with decades of hands-on experience in the Gulf of Mexico. Long before forming the company, members of our team were directly involved in the ownership, operation, and eventual decommissioning of offshore oil and gas assets across both deepwater and shallow water environments.
Beginning in 2007, members of MCOP DECOM’s leadership team participated in the acquisition and operation of a portfolio of Gulf of Mexico assets, including interests acquired from ConocoPhillips. These assets spanned deepwater Green Canyon developments and shallow water shelf properties.
Over the course of nearly two decades, our team’s operations management was exemplary across the full lifecycle of offshore assets — from production through decommissioning. That experience built deep familiarity with Gulf of Mexico infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, subsea systems, and multi-basin operating environments.
What differentiates MCOP DECOM is the perspective our leadership brings to decommissioning. Our team’s experience includes deepwater floating systems, fixed platforms, subsea pipelines, and multi-well plug and abandonment programs across a wide range of water depths.
In deepwater, members of our team were directly involved in the decommissioning of complex facilities, including tension leg wellhead platforms in the Green Canyon area. Having worked with these assets during their operating life, our team understands their design, history, and technical constraints in a way that informs more effective decommissioning planning and execution.
Across fixed platform portfolios, our leadership has been involved in full-field decommissioning efforts, including platform removal, pipeline abandonment, and well P&A campaigns. This experience includes participation in regulatory processes with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), including approvals related to artificial reef conversions. Reefing approvals are not routinely granted; they require demonstrated operator credibility and a rigorous environmental and structural justification process. Our team has delivered both.
Across the Gulf's shallow water shelf, our team has executed decommissioning programs spanning multiple fixed structures, complex well inventories, and pipeline systems, demonstrating the same operational discipline in shelf environments that they brought to deepwater campaigns. Shallow water decommissioning presents its own distinct challenges: aging infrastructure, complex well histories, and logistical environments that demand a fundamentally different operational approach. Our team has executed successfully across both environments.
Throughout years of operator experience, our leadership built its reputation on proactive regulatory relationships with BSEE and the USCG, rigorous safety standards with zero compromise, disciplined cost management, and a conservative operating philosophy that prioritized doing things right over doing things fast.
As the Gulf of Mexico's mature fields moved toward end-of-life, our team recognized what their experience uniquely positioned them to do: not just decommission assets they previously owned or operated, but lead the decommissioning of others. MCOP DECOM was formed to bring this operator-side experience to the decommissioning needs of today’s Gulf of Mexico operators. The company was built specifically to apply the same institutional discipline, engineering rigor, and cost accountability that defined those production years to the decommissioning challenges facing operators across the Gulf today.
When you engage MCOP DECOM, you are working with a team that understands decommissioning from the operator’s perspective. Our leadership has managed offshore assets, navigated regulatory obligations, handled contractor relationships, offshore logistics, production economics and overseen complex end-of-life programs on the same class of assets you need removed. That experience doesn't just inform how we plan your campaign. It changes what's possible.