plugging and abandonment

With global decommissioning activities forecast to reach $100 billion through 2030, early planning for it could go far in helping to minimize risk and associated costs.

The multiyear, $20 million-plus contract is for a well abandonment campaign in the Balmoral area in the UK central North Sea.

The authors discuss a modified ultrasonic-cement-analyzer (UCA) vessel that allows assessment of slurry sealing performance under representative downhole conditions while running otherwise standard UCA equipment.

This paper compares the sealability performance of an expanding geopolymer with that of an expansive commercial cement in terms of the shear bond strength and the hydraulic bond strength at curing conditions of 25℃ and 34.5 bar.

More than 200 inactive oil and natural gas wells in New Mexico have been plugged as land managers have tried to crack down on producers as part of an accountability and enforcement program.

We invite you to join the P&ATS to help our industry thrive, as the expectations from the stakeholders get tougher and a lot more “deep” wells drilled in support of geo-energy supply approach the end of their useful life.

Federal infrastructure law gives states financial incentive to remediate orphan wells.

Bob Pearson shares his thoughts on the repurposing or abandonment and decommissioning of wells that are unlikely to be repurposed or pose an environmental risk with emissions into the atmosphere or aquifers.

Houston-based startup Cemvita Factory uses its hydrogen-producing microbes downhole to considerably lower the cost of hydrogen production.

The $25 million is an initial grant from the recent Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed last November.