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- Reports on current practices used for permanently plugging and abandoning of hydrocarbon wells
- Describes operational and technical challenges
- Offers a unique resource for industry training and specialized university courses
- Includes examples from offshore wells in the North Sea
- Is an open access book
Part of the book series: Ocean Engineering & Oceanography (OEO, volume 12)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This open access book offers a timely guide to challenges and current practices to permanently plug and abandon hydrocarbon wells. With a focus on offshore North Sea, it analyzes the process of plug and abandonment of hydrocarbon wells through the establishment of permanent well barriers. It provides the reader with extensive knowledge on the type of barriers, their functioning and verification. It then discusses plug and abandonment methodologies, analyzing different types of permanent plugging materials. Last, it describes some tests for verifying the integrity and functionality of installed permanent barriers. The book offers a comprehensive reference guide to well plugging and abandonment (P&A) and well integrity testing. The book also presents new technologies that have been proposed to be used in plugging and abandoning of wells, which might be game-changing technologies, but they are still in laboratory or testing level. Given its scope, it addresses students and researchersin both academia and industry. It also provides information for engineers who work in petroleum industry and should be familiarized with P&A of hydrocarbon wells to reduce the time of P&A by considering it during well planning and construction.
Keywords
- Open access
- Permanent plugging materials
- Integrity of permanent barriers
- Hydrocarbon wells
- Wellhead systems
- High-pressure hight temperature wells
- Durability of plugging materials
- Individual subsea wells
- Clustered subsea wells
- Permanent mooring systems
- Plug and abandonment operations
- Barrier verification
- Slot recovery
- Types of wells
- Types of well barriers
- Types of offshore production units
- Plug placement techniques
Authors and Affiliations
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Kjølv Egenlands hus, Stavanger, Norway
Mahmoud Khalifeh, Arild Saasen
About the authors
Arild Saasen has a position as adjunct professor at the University of Stavanger. Parallelly, he works for other companies including his own company ALKAS Atlantic AS. He has previously worked as drilling and well fluid specialist in Det norske oljeselskap (now named AkerBP) and Statoil (now named Equinor). Earlier he worked for Rogaland Research (now named Norce). He holds a MSc in fluid mechanics from the University of Oslo, Norway, and a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark. Throughout the last three decades, he has published numerous articles about drilling and drilling fluids. He has been awarded the Nordic Rheology Society’s Carl Clason Rheology Award in 2012 and the SPE North Sea Regional Drilling Engineering Award in 2018.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Permanent Plug and Abandonment of Wells
Authors: Mahmoud Khalifeh, Arild Saasen
Series Title: Ocean Engineering & Oceanography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39970-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39969-6Published: 28 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39972-6Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39970-2Published: 27 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2194-6396
Series E-ISSN: 2194-640X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 273
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 138 illustrations in colour
Topics: Offshore Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Energy Policy, Economics and Management