ABANDONMENT OF OIL AND GAS FACILITIES
ABANDONMENT OF OIL AND GAS FACILITIES
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Hi.,
Has anyone participated in the Abandonment of oil and gas facilities (Land based or swamp) e.g Flow stations, Artificial gas lift compressor stations, gas plants.
Would like to get information on facility location and how the waste streams were handled and the site was restored to green.
Chenry
Has anyone participated in the Abandonment of oil and gas facilities (Land based or swamp) e.g Flow stations, Artificial gas lift compressor stations, gas plants.
Would like to get information on facility location and how the waste streams were handled and the site was restored to green.
Chenry





RE: ABANDONMENT OF OIL AND GAS FACILITIES
I'm not totally familiar with the United States, but Mexico and South America practice a similar procedure. We are talking Bridge Plug with cementing above the perforated zones in most cases. You will need to address leakage through various monitoring stages in order to prove total closure. For example, monitoring of ground water for contaminants is virtually mandatory within the above mentioned territories.
I would suggest approaching the situation using information from Royal Dutch Shell. In my humble opinion, they are perhaps the best at abandonment. Exxon Mobil is pretty good and a few of the juniors are above average. This would be a great web based search.
Best of luck with it. Nice to see this thread pop up in a forum dedicated to design and development.
Kenneth J Hueston, PEng
Principal
Sturni-Hueston Engineering Inc
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
RE: ABANDONMENT OF OIL AND GAS FACILITIES
I've found company policies to be as confused/missing as the state regulations.
The best I've ever done has been to document abandonment plans in original design and state the reasons for the choice (e.g., remove pipe from the ground because it is required by the land-use agreement on private surface, or leave the line open-ended to reduce the risk of the line becoming a bomb).
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
www.muleshoe-eng.com
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RE: ABANDONMENT OF OIL AND GAS FACILITIES
RE: ABANDONMENT OF OIL AND GAS FACILITIES