Well Plugging & Abandonment Planning

In preparation for a 70-well offshore P&A campaign, Beacon West performed a comprehensive review of available well records and developed a program for monitoring annulus pressures while preparing procedures for well plugging and abandonment.  The team’s work included:

• Compiling well histories, well bore diagrams, and identifying potential challenges to P&A operations

• Installing gauges on annuli to monitor wells and record pressures, if present

• Prioritizing well P&A sequence based on well configuration and monitoring records

• Preparing the abandonment program including recommendations concerning caprock restoration, cement logs, cement composition, and mechanical plug preferences, and approach to fishing operations, if needed

• Preparing bid packages for services including conductor pulling operations.

• Developing budget estimates for each well

• Preparing P&A program documentation for regulatory approval

• Establishing routines for program / cost optimization throughout the work campaign.