Repairing Damaged Cement for an Operator in Canada

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Plug and Abandonment with Wel-lok™ Cement Repair Tool (CRT) in CanadaPlug and Abandonment with Wel-lok™ Cement Repair Tool (CRT) in Canada

Plug and Abandonment with Wel-lok™ Cement Repair Tool (CRT)

BiSN provided the customer with a reliable solution for permanent abandonment.

October 10, 2022

An operator had a six well plug and abandonment campaign of onshore wells that had experience damaged cement. These wells had a range of configurations and characteristics, but all had cement that no longer could reliably hold gas pressure. BiSN was contacted to provide a gas-tight solution to allow the wells to be permanently abandoned.

  • Statistics
  • Challenge
  • Solution
  • Results
  • Business Value
Statistics

Main Statistics

Repairing Damaged Cement for an Operator in CanadaRepairing Damaged Cement for an Operator in Canada
Challenge

Different Tools to Solve Different Environment Variables

Deployment across a variety of parameters:

This campaign featured well conditions that ranged from 30-125°C, 700-3900 PSI, and geometries that included running through a 4.653” restriction to seal inside 8.921”. This range of parameters required the deployment of three different tools using two different Bismuth alloys to address the individual needs of each well.

Solution

Wel-lok™ Cement Repair Tool (CRT)

To prepare the well, the customer sectioned milled a zone of damaged cement to clear an area for a BiSN seal. BiSN then deployed Cement Repair Tools with Bismuth alloy cast on the outside of a thermite heater for five of the six wells, with Bismuth alloy beads deployed from surface around a thermite heater for the sixth well. In the section milled zone, the alloy was melted and the thermite heater removed from the liquid alloy, forming a single, full cross-section plug across the entire well diameter.

Results

Significant Cost Savings

  • Damaged cement replaced by bismuth alloy
  • Permanent plugs set in wells for abandonment
  • Eliminate need for unreliable cement squeezes
  • Deployed on e-line
  • Significant cost savings for the operator
Business Value

Reliable Solution for Permanent Abandonment

BiSN provided the customer with a reliable solution for permanent abandonment. This eliminated the risk of an ineffective cement squeeze while providing the long-term reliability of bismuth alloy. Because bismuth alloy can form an effective seal with a shorter plug length, the need to section mill a long window for a replacement cement plug represented significant cost savings for the operator. BiSN was able to help the operator reduce HSE risks, operation time, and cost.

How it works…

The Wel-lok™ CRT (Cement Repair Tool) was developed to eliminate sustained casing pressure, or casing vent flow, in cemented annuli.

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