Baker Hughes will provide P&A services to Equinor at the Oseberg East Field in the Norwegian North Sea.
The contractor’s Mature Assets Solutions team will lead the integrated P&A campaign planning phase, followed by execution on several wells.
“Our Mature Assets Solutions experts are well equipped to manage every phase of P&A and optimize operations to meet Equinor’s well abandonment goals,” said Amerino Gatti, executive vice president of Oilfield Services & Equipment at Baker Hughes. “We will collectively unlock new efficiencies that set new standards for well abandonment solutions, providing cost-effective solutions…through collaboration, technology, optimization and integration.”
It follows the signing by the two companies of a multi-year framework agreement in March for the provision of integrated P&A services.
Baker Hughes will establish a P&A Center of Excellence in Bergen and Stavanger to coordinate the program, bringing together project managers and subject matter specialists. Their focus will be on responsible abandonment of each well while maximizing operational efficiencies, the company said.
Technologies likely deployed will include PRIME powered mechanical applications, CICM (Casing Integrity & Cement Mapping), the MASTODON casing retrieval system and the Xtreme SJI mechanical slotting tool.
Execution at Oseberg East should get underway next year.
In the same area, a recent incident at the Equinor-operated Oseberg H normally unmanned wellhead platform in the Norwegian North Sea is being investigated. On May 30, a gangway was in place between the platform and Island Offshore Management’s Island Clipper service operation vessel when the vessel suddenly lost the gangway’s hydraulics, and subsequently, its motion-compensation functions.
