Every beginning has an end. This book covers the beginning of the end of well life. When a well reaches the end of its life, it must permanently be plugged and abandoned. Plug and abandonment can easily contribute to 25% of the total cost of drilling exploration wells offshore Norway. The cost of running a plug and abandonment operation on some offshore production wells may have a cost impact similar to the cost of the original drilling operation. Therefore, cost efficient plug and abandonment technology is a necessity without compromising the scope of the operation. The occasion that dictates the end of a well life could be integrity issues, subsidence induced well failure, depleted reservoir, water/gas coning, negative cash flow, or finished data gathering from exploration. In addition, there are other circumstances that force the wellbore(s) to be permanently plugged and abandoned. For instance, a platform in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt, was struck by a cargo vessel on December 1989.


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    Title :

    Introduction


    Additional title:

    Ocean Engineering & Oceanography


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    Publication date :

    2020-01-28


    Size :

    9 pages





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    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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