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TECH FEATURE DECOMMISSIONING in a new workshop near Aberdeen, designed to support

Keys to Success

Successful well decommissioning programmes depend fshing, remedial and P&A operations. Located in Portle- on the right combination of tools, teams and operational then, the facility provides modern, purpose-built infra- structure that improves accessibility, strengthens opera- mindset.

Downhole technologies and well services play a central tional capacity and supports closer collaboration between role in delivering safe, verifable plug and abandonment contractors and project partners involved in well decom- operations and establishing permanent well barriers to missioning campaigns.

Odfjell Technology has further accelerated its growth protect long-term well integrity. Achieving this often re- quires safely accessing and intervening in wells that may journey with the acquisition of McGarian TDC and re- cent majority stake in Kaseum Holdings and Razor Oil have been drilled decades ago and modifed over time.

Well intervention techniques including tubing and Tools. This has signifcantly expanded its development casing recovery tools, mills and section milling system, capacity and enhanced its ability to engineer new tools, jetting systems and well bore cleanouts tool including refne intervention methodologies and deliver fully in- tegrated P&A campaigns tailored to modern well chal- hands-free tubular running services can play an impor- tant role in enabling wellbore clean-up, barrier placement lenges.

Investments such as these refect growing recognition and the preparation required to verify permanent well that well decommissioning is a specialised engineering barriers.

These technical capabilities must be complemented by discipline requiring dedicated facilities, advanced tools fexible operational delivery models. Rigless solutions, for and highly experienced personnel.

example, enable operators to reduce costs, enhance ef-

Lifecycle Skills fciency, and minimise operational emissions—while still

From plug and abandonment to advanced well inter- maintaining the highest safety standards. Likewise, an in- vention and repurposing technologies, the next chapter tegrated operations model is a key enabler for cost reduc- tion through headcount optimisation, such as deploying for existing wells presents both challenges and opportu- nities for companies capable of delivering safe, cost-eff- a multiskilled drill crew for P&A operations

Leveraging in-house capabilities across engineering, cient and low-carbon solutions.

Preparing for the future of the oil and gas industry in- equipment and service delivery can further strengthen performance by improving tool availability, reducing lead creasingly means focusing on the opportunities created by the sector’s ongoing evolution. Well decommissioning times and supporting more effcient project execution.

Ultimately, however, successful well decommissioning should therefore be viewed not simply as the closure of depends as much on people and mindset as it does on ageing wells, but as a specialised discipline centred on safe P&A operations and long-term well integrity.

technology.

Success depends on combining the right equipment

A collaborative partnership approach, working closely with operators to understand the specifc requirements with the right expertise and experience. By working in of each well, remains essential to delivering technically close collaboration with operators and the wider supply chain, specialist service providers can help deliver techni- robust, cost-effcient P&A programmes.

cally robust well decommissioning solutions across both mature and emerging markets.

Investing in Solutions

In doing so, the skills and experience developed

The continued growth of well decommissioning activ- through well decommissioning will continue to support ity is already driving investment in infrastructure, spe- the wider industry, enabling operators and service com- cialist tooling and operational capability across the sup- panies to safely manage late-life wells while establishing ply chain.

Companies across the sector are expanding facilities the permanent barriers required for the decades ahead.

As mature basins continue to evolve, well decommis- and strengthening technical expertise to support increas- ing demand for plug and abandonment, fshing, remedial sioning will play an increasingly central role in ensuring the industry manages its existing wells safely, responsibly services and barrier verifcation work.

For example, Odfjell Technology has recently invested and with the highest technical standards.

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