Nov. 14, 2023

Northside: Estimating Well Integrity in Abandoned Wells

Hosted by: Northside

 

Ovintiv Conference Room
4 Waterway Square Place
The Woodlands, TX 77380


Description

This presentation will explore various methods of estimating or inferring the integrity of wells that have been abandoned in the past. The purposes of this estimation include abandoned well re-entries and the use of the field for various injection schemes such as carbon sequestration. Obviously, well integrity cannot be determined directly through logs or test in a well that has cement or other plug types installed with the wellhead cut off below ground level. There are means to estimate the integrity; however, most of these techniques involve probabalistic risk analysis methodology. Well deterioration after plugging is often the greatest unknown.

 


Featured Speakers

Speaker Les Skinner, PE

Les graduated in 1972 with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University. He has worked in the petroleum industry both as an employee and as a consultant for  50 years for independent and integrated oil companies.
Les has written numerous articles for industry publications, and he authored three full-length …

Les graduated in 1972 with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Texas Tech University. He has worked in the petroleum industry both as an employee and as a consultant for  50 years for independent and integrated oil companies.


Les has written numerous articles for industry publications, and he authored three full-length books through the Technical Publications Committee of IADC, one on well integrity for workovers and recompletions in 2020. He is currently the co-author on a fourth book on well integrity for abandonments and re-entries.


He is a member of several professional societies and associations including SPE, ICoTA, AIChE, AADE, IADC, and others. He is also a member of several industry committees including the API Recommended Practice 1170/1171, RP 90-1 revision committee (which he chaired for five years), and the ISO 16530 revision team. He is currently on the Steering Committee for the AADE Innovative and Emerging Technology group, and the Technical Committee for ICoTA.

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Organizer

David Traugott

david.traugott@nov.com ;  936-777-6204


Date and Time

Tue, Nov. 14, 2023

11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(GMT-0500) US/Central

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Location

Ovintiv Conference Room

4 Waterway Square Place
The Woodlands, TX 77380

Directions to Free Parking at Ovintiv; note - paid parking is also available in the parking tower directly across the street from Ovintiv.



 



Group(s): Northside

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