Well Abandonment

Current Projects

2021

• Methods to Identify Product Placement Behind Pipe & Identify Drilling Practices to Optimize Well Integrity with Primary Cementing
• Identify GHG Level for Well Repair and Monitoring of Sweet Natural Gas Wells to Identify Acceptable Leak Rate

2020

• Testing Alternative Products for Well Remediation and Decommissioning / Abandonment – Phase I
• Plug and Abandon Strategies for Canada’s Oil & Gas Wells to stop Surface Casing Vent Flow (SCVF) and Gas Migration (GM)
• Multi-Year Compositional, Isotopic and Microbial Investigation of Methane Migration Issues to Develop “Best-Practices” for Industry
• Minimum Acceptable Emissions and Closure Guidelines for Leaking Abandoned Wells

2019

• Multi-year compositional, isotopic and microbial investigation of gas migration issues to develop “best-practices” for industry

2017-2019

• Plug and Abandon Strategies for Canada’s Oil & Gas Wells

Completed Projects

2018

• Plug/Annular Cement Integrity Analysis and Fault Diagnosis of Mechanical Plugs
• Identifying Regional Variation in the Source Depths of Migrating Gas from Conventional and Unconventional Wells in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
• Chemical Cement Alternatives

2017

• Definitive Gas Migration Testing: Comparative Assessment of Different Gas Migration Testing Techniques and Field Instrumentation

2016-2019

• Methane Emissions – Human and Ecological Health Risk based Ranking and Prioritization Tool

2016

• Fluid mechanic causes of gas migration
• Application of Distributed Sensing for enhanced determination of Surface Casing Vent Flow (SCVF)

2015

• Identifying, Characterizing and Addressing Soil and Groundwater Issues related to SCVF and Other Types of Natural Gas Migration
• Investigate the Potential for Surface Casing Vent Flow/Groundwater Migration Issues