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Feature Q&A: Addressing the challenges and opportunities of oil and gas decommissioning
Plug and abandonment
Efficiently decommission your well—with integrity
Challenge
Risks and cost of well abandonment
It's inevitable. Eventually every well, offshore or onshore, will have to be decommissioned. And you don't always know from the start whether the plug and abandonment (P&A) will be a straightforward exercise or a complex, capex-intensive operation to achieve compliance with guidelines and regulatory requirements. Complicating the situation—especially in older wells—is that critical data is usually lacking. Advance knowledge of whether rigless P&A could be conducted would significantly drive cost reduction and cost predictability.
Minimizing P&A operational time and spend begins with barrier evaluation. Our proven suite of scalable technologies and services enable evaluation and assessment of well integrity to identify rigless opportunities—paving the way for sealing each well with confidence and cost control. With our P&A services, we can provide targeted, modular and up to fully integrated plug and abandonment services. This range and flexibility enables us to always find the answers you are looking for.
Solution
Reliably, expertly, plug and abandon at the right time and right cost
Over many decades, we've established a global presence for our extensive technology portfolio with well engineering and integrated digital capabilities while also constructing an open partnership network.
Results
The P&A outcome you require—no matter how challenging the well
Here's how we help you conduct P&A to best achieve a smaller footprint and cost savings, secure wells, and regulatory compliance.
Products and Services
No matter the P&A situation, our broad portfolio provides you with options for critical insight, efficient deployment, and reliable sealing solutions.
Well integrity evaluation
Thoroughly assess cement and casing without necessarily removing the inner pipe to economically guide P&A.
Plug setting and retrieval
Deploy dependable well barrier and isolation solutions on slickline with simplicity and cost-effectiveness.
Barrier materials
Isolate the wellbore by sealing with a permanent, leak-free barrier that meets compliance obligations.
Tubing punching and pipe recovery
Cleanly sever tubulars to recover casing, drillpipe, coiled tubing, and tubing, including freeing stuck pipe.
Well access
Quickly resolve challenges with powered intervention on wireline or mechanical intervention on coiled tubing.
Rigless subsea abandonment
Our most advanced suite of services for efficiently removing tubulars, shear, seal, and cement while using comprehensive riserless open-water abandonment.
Redefining Production and Recovery
Improve producing asset performance and recovery with integrated chemical, mechanical, and digital solutions.
Data and AI Platform
Unlock business performance with unmatched collection, curation, and intelligent interpretation of your data.
Accelerated Time to Market
Access more mature field reserves and bring green fields online faster and with longer sustainable performance.
Performance Assurance
Redefine what’s achievable for your system-level optimization.
Methane and Flaring Elimination
Remove methane and flaring emissions from your operations. For good.
Emissions Reduction
Reduce operational emissions and environmental impact with quantifiably proven, reliable technologies.
Geothermal
Tapping into the heat beneath our feet to generate reliable, sustainable energy.
Carbon Capture and Storage
Accelerate progress with effective solutions across the CCUS value chain.