Claxton, an Acteon company, has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide "rigless recovery" of seven abandoned wells on the Huldra platform, located in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Work is due to start in December 2016 and complete within 21 days. Claxton is responsible for a full scope of decommissioning work including project planning, severance, and full multiple string recovery.
Laura Claxton, managing director, Claxton, said: “Claxton performed the world’s first rigless platform well abandonment campaign on the Esmond, Forbes and Gordon fields in the North Sea in 1995, and has completed more than 280 cutting and recovery projects since.
“This experience allows us now to provide the most comprehensive decommissioning packages for our clients. Being awarded this contract with Statoil reinforces our leading position in the decommissioning market and demonstrates that clients value our experience, strategic technical approach and capabilities.”
Conductor and casing severance for the Huldra project will be performed using the latest evolution Claxton recovery tower and its abrasive cutting system "SABRE." The SABRE unit and all ancillary equipment are NORSOK compliant to Z-015, with the recovery tower having a safe working load of 300-tonne with a modular system footprint design that minimises rig-up time and complexity.
Rigless platform well abandonment is just one of the many services Claxton can offer to reduce the cost of your decommissioning project.