Offshore company Heerema offered oil companies to remove their vacant platforms from the North Sea. They planned to work with a British and a Norwegian company. Together they were called Fairfield Decom and wanted to dismantle the platforms from the British part of the North Sea. This removal is a billion dollar market, next forty years 470 more rigs need to be dismantled from the North Sea.

Director of Heerema Marine Contractors Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven says that the company was in talks for two and a half years and came up with a proposal he was confident in. Heerema could use hoisting vessels to move the platforms and the Norwegian company would dismantle the platforms on land. The British company was again very good at the final part of dismantling and sealing a platform. In this way, everything was done as efficiently and cheaply as possible. This was a big step forward compared to how it was done before. There was an enthusiastic response to the plan from various quarters. Both the oil companies and the state had to start paying for these projects.

Er kwam uiteindelijk geen enkele opdracht voor de joint venture om platforms te verwijderen en na twee jaar bestaan te hebben werd de joint venture ontbonden. Het kost namelijk veel geld om opdrachten binnen te halen omdat er van alles berekend en uitgezocht moet worden. De consultant WoodMackenzie heeft nog altijd geloof in het concept en hoopt over een aantal jaar, als bedrijven meer druk voelen om de platforms weg te halen, weer verder te gaan met de joint venture.