Well Plugging and Abandonment
A presentation course of well plugging and abandonment in France:
Well aspect, environmental / regulation issues and methodology.
- Course Type
Short Course - Duration
1 day - Thematic
Health Safety & Environment - Location
- Country
FRANCE -
Satisfaction rate
Why should you attend?
Well closures are nowadays a major environmental issue for all countries with unplugged wells.
This course lasts 1 day and allows to the participants to get familiar with well plugging specificities in France (land and offshore, oil &gas, underground storage, salt wells, etc.) and to acquire an overall understanding of the different steps of well plugging and abandonment as well as understanding the regulatory constraints.
Main objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand issues linked to well P&A (Plugging & Abandonment)
- Understand current legislation and its impact on P&A methodology
- Understand budget P&A
- Discover all disciplines linked with well closure
Topics addressed during the course:
Main objectives of well P&A
- French legislation
- Reservoirs, permeable zones and barriers
- Examples of well P&A
- Well P&A stakeholders
- Quality assurance
- Wellsite reclaims
This course consists in presentations and several examples from the lecturers' experience.
Prerequisites
This course has been designed for anyone seeking to get familiar with the well plugging and abandonment discipline, ie oil, gas, geothermal, or underground storage wells.
Personnel from oil companies, rig contractors, service companies and anyone dealing with environmental matters with French local authorities.
This course does not require scientific knowledge.
