plugging and abandonment
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Baker Hughes sees opportunity to capitalize by bundling smaller intervention campaigns.
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A study of a limited number of decommissioned oil and gas wells in England found no evidence of methane leaks, including four wells found to be leaking in an earlier study.
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One of the newest ways to plug and abandon wells and patch casing leaks involves an alloy that flows like water.
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The authors describe a study analyzing a comprehensive data set recorded in casing-cemented sandwich sections and recovered during the abandonment of a well in the Valhall Field.
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Managed-pressure drilling has been associated as a technology used only on problematic wells and only as a last resort. However, when integrated at the beginning of operations as part of a comprehensive well plan, it becomes a performance-enhancing solution for any type of well classification, including development, directional, multilaterals, and horizontals.
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The authors seek to eliminate the need for pressure testing in the evaluation of annular creep barriers by qualifying the barrier using only cased-hole log measurements.
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The DOI guidance explains how states can apply for the first $775 million in grant funding available this year under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create jobs cleaning up polluted and unsafe orphaned oil and gas wellsites across the country.
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TAQ Energy, an oilfield abandonment service company, and Engage Mobilize announced a partnership to develop a cloud-based operational and financial platform.
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The US government has made more than $1 billion available to qualified states. The program is part of the recently passed infrastructure law.
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The UK’s Net Zero Technology Centre looks to pave the way for new well P&A technologies to be tested, trialed, and brought to market quickly.