TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khalifeh, Mahmoud
AU  - Saasen, Arild
AB  - This open access book offers a timely guide to challenges and current practices to permanently plug and abandon hydrocarbon wells. With a focus on offshore North Sea, it analyzes the process of plug and abandonment of hydrocarbon wells through the establishment of permanent well barriers. It provides the reader with extensive knowledge on the type of barriers, their functioning and verification. It then discusses plug and abandonment methodologies, analyzing different types of permanent plugging materials. Last, it describes some tests for verifying the integrity and functionality of installed permanent barriers. The book offers a comprehensive reference guide to well plugging and abandonment (P&A) and well integrity testing. The book also presents new technologies that have been proposed to be used in plugging and abandoning of wells, which might be game-changing technologies, but they are still in laboratory or testing level. Given its scope, it addresses students and researchers in both academia and industry. It also provides information for engineers who work in petroleum industry and should be familiarized with P&A of hydrocarbon wells to reduce the time of P&A by considering it during well planning and construction.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-39970-2
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006837
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Ocean engineering
KW  - Geotechnical engineering
KW  - Energy policy
KW  - Energy and state
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/17378593-1d76-4458-bd30-500d5c00c720/1006837.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23318
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2020
TI  - Introduction to Permanent Plug and Abandonment of Wellsnull
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