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    This document summarizes work by the Oil and Gas UK Well Suspension and Abandonment workgroup. It outlines guidelines they have published for well abandonment and material qualification. It also discusses challenges around cement logging, use of supply boats, and downhole cables. The workgroup plans to further update guidelines and address challenges around deep water abandonment technologies between 2012-2015.

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    The key takeaways are that guidelines have been issued regarding well suspension and abandonment, material qualification, and cost estimation. The WSA Workgroup aims to enhance well abandonment capabilities and improve safety. Challenges include cement logging through tubing and solutions for downhole cables and lines.

    The main objectives of the WSA Workgroup are to enhance capabilities for well abandonments, provide up-to-date guidelines, create opportunities to make abandonments more efficient and effective, and improve health, safety and environmental aspects.

    The WSA has issued guidelines for the suspension and abandonment of wells, qualification of materials, and cost estimation for asset retirement obligations.

    Oil and Gas UK Workgroup

    Well Suspension and Abandonment


    (WSA)
    4th European SPE Seminar on Well Abandonment
    Aberdeen, 18th April 2013
    Jules Schoenmakers (Shell), on behalf of WSA

    Well Life Cycle Practices Forum (WLCPF)

    WLCPF

    BOP Issues

    Integrity
    Guidelines

    HPHT Wells

    Subcommittees

    Relief Well
    Planning
    Requirements

    Steering Committee

    Competency,
    Behaviours, &
    Human Factors

    Well
    Suspension &
    Abandonment
    Cost
    liability
    estimation

    Well
    Examination

    Verification

    Capping devices

    Material
    Qualification
    Guideline

    WSA Workgroup
    Purpose and Objectives
    Enhance capabilities for Well Abandonments and
    provide up-to-date guidelines for the industry.
    Create opportunities to make well abandonments more
    efficient and effective, and improve the health, safety
    and environmental aspects, by facilitation of technology
    development, trials, and promotion of commercial
    initiatives.
    Liaise with DECC and other regulators on technical
    issues specific to well abandonments.
    3

    WSA has 19 members


    (current and previous members shown)

    Jules Schoenmakers (WSA co-lead)

    Shell

    Stan Bain (WSA co-lead)

    ADTI

    Max Baumert

    ExxonMobil

    Donald Dobson

    HSE

    John Ligertwood (Andrew McHardy)

    Total E&P UK

    Martin Mosley

    Talisman Energy (UK)

    Tom Gillibrand (Bill Inglis)

    BP

    Garry Skelly

    Well Abandonment

    Jim Keenan (Colin Wight)

    Halliburton

    Rod Smith (Jorgen Berg)

    Schlumberger

    Phil Chandler

    Acteon

    Martin Street (Steve White)

    Hess

    Mark Madu (Anthony Onukwu)

    ITF

    Oliver Willis

    Well Ops

    Steve Cromar (Peter Irvine)

    ConocoPhillips

    Michael Muir (Simon Hough)

    Chevron

    Sandy Fettes

    Fairfield

    Steve Kirby,
    Taiwo Olaoya

    Oil and Gas UK


    Oil and Gas UK

    Presentation outline
    1. Guidelines for the Suspensions
    and Abandonment of wells
    2. Guidelines for the Qualification of
    Materials for the Suspension and
    Abandonment of wells
    3. Cost estimating guidelines

    Context of the Guidelines: Legislation

    DCR, Part IV, Wells, General Duty:The well-operator, shall ensure that a well is
    so designed, modified, commissioned, constructed,
    equipped, operated, maintained, suspended and
    abandoned that
    a) so far as is reasonably practicable, there can be
    no unplanned escape of fluids from the well; and
    b) risks to the health and safety of persons from it or
    anything in it, or in the strata to which it is connected, are
    as low as is reasonably practicable.
    The Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc) Regulations 1996 (DCR)
    6

    Context of the Guidelines (2)

    Legislation is Goal-setting, not prescriptive


    - States what to achieve, not what to do
    - Onus on well-operator to assess risks and reduce to ALARP
    Guidelines assist with compliance of the DCR
    and use of good industry practice
    Operators are expected to develop in-house rules for their
    own operations and apply a well examination scheme.

    Basic principle of Guidelines is unchanged


    Permanent Abandonment Barrier (red dashed envelope)
    Best practices

    Restoring the caprock

    Barrier elements
    Sealing
    abandonment plug
    Tubing sealed with
    cement, in cement

    Height of 500ft
    MD, containing at
    least 100 ft MD of
    good cement.

    Casings, tubing
    embedded in
    cement
    Sealing primary
    cementations

    Plug depth
    determined by
    formation
    (impermeability
    and strength) and
    primary
    cementation

    Pipe stand-off
    Support to prevent
    cement movement,
    slumping and gas
    migration while setting

    Good bond,
    clean
    surfaces,
    water wet

    Formation:
    impermeable and
    adequate strength
    to contain future
    pressures

    Issue 4: What has changed (1)

    In general, an update based on experience and feedback.


    Specifically:
    Highlight the importance of the overburden geology
    Barrier verification
    Cement plug - Improved guidelines on tagging
    Annular cement - Clearer guidance on assessing the
    sealing capability.
    Tables describing verification options for primary,
    secondary and combination barriers.
    9

    Issue 4: What has changed (2)

    Additional Special Considerations (Chapter 7)


    Sealing formations
    Reservoir compaction and subsidence
    Hydrocarbons of biogenic nature
    Suspension clarified as temporary abandonment
    Statutory notifications, approvals and record keeping
    Rewritten to update and clarify

    10

    Issue 4: What has changed (3)

    New appendix on barrier integrity


    potential hazards to help risk assessment
    mitigation examples using good industry practice
    New appendix on P&A codes
    Aligns coding to Guideline on well abandonment cost
    estimation
    New appendix on irretrievable radioactive sources.

    11

    Squeezing shale as a barrier (example)


    LOG #1 in 2010

    LOG #2 in 2010

    13 3/8 Casing Shoe

    FREE
    PIPE
    IN 1981

    12

    GOOD
    BOND
    IN 2010

    GOOD
    BOND
    IN 2010

    Extract from Hazards and Mitigations Appendix


    Hazard

    Mitigations

    Cement Slippage Downhole due to


    Cement density or losses
    Cement density is higher that fluid in
    which it is placed.
    TOC no longer at required depth
    Soft cement plug due to contamination
    with mud (high risk with synthetic or oil
    based muds)

    T-plug on casing stumps leak


    Plugs across milled sections without

    support for cement

    13

    S T
    T T

    Ensure cement plug is set on suitable base


    that supports the cement slurry
    Mechanical base such as previously tested
    cement plug, cementing packer, or
    completion packer
    Fluid base such as a Viscous Reactive Pill
    (VRP) or viscous mud pill.
    For VRP ensure suitable reaction with mud
    & cement via lab testing.
    Consider setting cement plug at hole section
    with lower inclination. 30-70 degrees is high
    risk area for slippage if using a fluid base.
    Treat losses or use mechanical base
    Verify that the pill can carry the cement and
    that the fluid can carry the pill using a scale
    model testing to replicate wellbore geometry
    (e.g. glass cylinder test)
    Tag or wash down to confirm.

    Guidelines for the


    Qualification of Materials
    Cement is currently accepted as the primary material
    for well abandonment, but has its limitations
    Alternatives are being developed, but have found little
    application due to uncertainty of the long-term integrity
    Expert group compiled materials guidelines
    Framework for qualification testing
    Issued in 2012

    Guidelines for the Qualification of Materials for the Suspension and Abandonment of Wells
    Issued by Oil and Gas UK, 2012.
    14

    Material Qualification Guidelines


    Types of materials:
    A. Cements, ceramics (setting), porous

    Functional requirements

    e.g. Portland Class H and G cement, (Pozmix, Slag)

    B. Grouts (non-setting), porous.


    e.g. sand or clay mixtures
    C. Polymers thermal-setting & composites, not porous.
    e.g. resins
    D. Polymers thermoplastics & composites, not porous.
    E. Polymers elastomers & composites, not porous.
    e.g. silicone rubber
    F. Formation, not porous.
    e.g. shale, salt
    G. Gels, not porous.
    e.g. bentonite gels, clay gels, polymer gels
    H. Glass, not porous
    I. Metals, not porous.
    e.g. steel, alloys, bismuth
    15

    Failure modes

    Critical properties

    Acceptance criteria

    Testing method

    Proposed Functional Test


    COMPLEMENTED BY AGING TESTS ON LABORATORY SCALE

    16

    Cost estimation guidelines


    Industry guidelines for cost estimating liabilities of wells
    (Asset Retirement Obligations; ARO) Issued 2011.
    Structured approach to support cost estimates for:
     Financial statements
     Asset sales
     Securities
    Not for AFE or detailed estimates.
    P&A Code for work scope has been introduced.
    This will dovetail with benchmarking
    17

    Questions to establish the P&A code

    18

    P&A code : Phases and Types


    P&A Code = PL 3/3/3

    P&A Code = PL 2/3/0

    19

    P&A Code dovetails with benchmarking

    20

    Challenges

    21

    Cement Logging through-tubing. ITF project started.


    Use of supply boats for well abandonments (moving
    bridge). Call for abstracts issued. Insufficient returns.
    Downhole Cables and Lines : still no solutions

    Work plan WSA 2012-2015

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.

    Issue technology call request for deep cables


    Through-tubing abandonment challenges
    Review alignment with Norsok-D010
    Update cost estimation guideline in 2014
    Update well suspension and abandonment guidelines
    in 2015
    6. Update material qualification guidelines in 2015

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    Discussion

    1. Comments on the Guidelines or presented topics ?


    2. Is the work programme of WSA supported ?
    3. Suggestions for other topics for WSA ?
    4. In which areas are you willing to give support ?

    Thank you for your attention and feedback


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