Plug and Abandonment – Mastering Well Abandonment From Planning to Execution

By completing this course, participants will be able to:

1. Master the fundamentals of short and long-term well integrity, including barrier philosophy, verification methods, and regulatory requirements
2. Evaluate and select appropriate P&A techniques based on well conditions, regulatory requirements, and cost considerations
3. Apply industry best practices for cement plug placement, barrier verification, and long-term integrity assurance
4. Assess and implement new P&A technologies and methodologies to optimize operations and reduce costs
5. Develop comprehensive P&A programs incorporating risk assessment, contingency planning, and quality assurance
6. Navigate global regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements for well abandonment

The course will benefit staff involved in drilling and workover, with 2 – 3 years of experience in the design of wells and/or drilling or workover operations. Prior experience in Plug & Abandonment is not required.

The course is recommended for the following staff to attend:

• Drilling or Well Operations Engineers
• Workover Supervisors
• Production Engineering
• Well decommissioning Engineers
• Well Integrity Engineers
• Completion Engineers
• Field Operations Supervisors
• Well Services Specialists
• Asset Integrity Managers
• HSE Engineers focused on well integrity
• Project Engineers involved in decommissioning
• Well Intervention Engineers
• Reservoir Engineers involved in field abandonment planning
• Quality Assurance Engineers in well operations

• Basic
• Intermediate

Your expert course leader has over 40 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry. During that time, he has worked exclusively in well intervention and completions. After a number of years working for intervention service companies (completions, slickline & workovers), he joined Shell as a well service supervisor. He was responsible for the day-to-day supervision of all well intervention work on Shell’s Persian/Arabian Gulf platforms. This included completion running, coil tubing, e-line, slickline, hydraulic workovers, well testing and stimulation operations. An office-based role as a senior well engineer followed.

He was responsible for planning, programming and organising of all the well engineering and intervention work on a number of fields in the Middle East. He had a brief spell as a Site Representative for Santos in Australia before joining Petro-Canada as Completions Superintendent in Syria, then moved to Australia as Completions Operations Superintendent for Santos, before returning to Shell as Field Supervisor Completions and Well Interventions in Iraq where he carried out the first ever formal abandonment of a well in the Majnoon Field. While working on rotation, he regularly taught Completion Practices, Well Intervention, Well Integrity and Reporting & Planning courses all over the world. In 2014, he started to focus 100% on training and became the Technical Director for PetroEDGE.

Since commencing delivering training courses in 2008, he has taught over 300 courses in 31 cities in 16 countries to in excess of 3,500 participants.

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