UK-based oilfield services firm Expro has completed an ultra-deep water plug and abandonment (P&A) project on in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) for Apache.
The work comprised the pre-abandonment and plugging of wells in the ultra-deep water Atwater Valley and Mississippi Canyon areas.
Starting in March 2016, Expro used its well intervention services to provide the first phase of abandonment of the wells. This involved plugging, cutting and perforating using slickline and electric-line cased hole applications to gain access to the wells and allow circulation.
The work comes after Expro's recent expansion of its business capabilities to offer fully integrated well abandonment services including; late-life reservoir management, permanent reservoir abandonment and post abandonment monitoring.
P&A is also just one of the four new capabilities developed by Expro in response to current market conditions and being launched at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston this week.
Kevin Illingworth, Global Well Abandonment Manager, said: “Our experienced teams provide integrated products and services, underpinned by the subsurface expertise within our Expro Group Integrated Services product line. This includes well integrity management, well testing, subsea and wireless well solutions, for temporary and permanent well abandonment.
Expro has worked with Apache for over 10 years, primarily in its Europe CIS region, supplying subsea, well testing, intervention and sampling services, and well integrity software.