Despite the uncertainty around the future of the Oil and Gas industry, one thing is clear: Oil and gas companies across the world are legally required to remove their facilities, post-production. As a result, literally millions of oil and gas wells across the globe will need to be plugged and abandoned over the coming decades.
In Norway alone, a recent study estimated the cost for plugging all the wells on the Norwegian Continental Shelf at over 800 billion Norwegian Kroner.
The Go Radical P&A project has one fundamental goal: Delivering radically new technical solutions that will enable a step change reduction (>50%) in the environmental footprint and cost to perform the P&A of oil and gas wells worldwide, while ensuring the prevention of longer-term leakage from abandoned wells.
We realize this to be an extremely ambitious goal, and this is why we plan to collaborate with radical thinkers from multiple sectors on a global scale.
The Go Radical P&A team are looking for partners to develop radical solutions that will enable a step change improvement in well plugging operations. Typical focus areas are wellbore access techniques, barrier/plugging solutions, barrier placement techniques, barrier verification techniques and relevant operational services.
The project is adopting the Norwegian oil company Equinor's business improvement process "Go Radical" with the aim of driving radical thinking to deliver radical solutions.
We anticipate that the practical solution will take the form of a "toolbox" of solutions whereby any plugging project could select the relevant "tools" to support their specific project.
We believe in the concept of some form of partnership, comprising several technical solutions and operational service providers, that would work together collaboratively to deliver a package / toolbox of solutions and services for future plugging operations.
On May 9th, ETN and GRaPA were proud to host 90 industry professionals including operators, research and academia, technology, service, and expertise providers, and the authorities at Energy Transition Norway / GRaPA's P&A seminar to discuss radical solutions for P&A (plug and abandonment) of oil and gas wells.
Six months into phase two of our Go...
Tomorrow, Tuesday 9th May 2023, Energy Transition Norway, together with the Go Radical P&A project team, will be hosting a half-day Seminar in Stavanger to promote the GRaPA project. Already, over 80 Well Abandonment specialists have signed up for the event.
