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December 02-03, 2019 | Dubai, UAE

Oil & Gas

International Conference and Expo on

Journal of Industrial and Environmental Chemistry | Volume 3

Plug and abandonment practices and trends: A British Columbia perspective

Majid Bizhani, E Trudel, M Zare

and

I A Frigaard

University of British Columbia, Canada

e present a review of Plug and Abandonment (P&A)

practices in onshore wells, with a particular focus on

British Columbia (BC). Regulatory and operational practices

are reviewed as well as data on the wells of BC. This data

set (of approximately 25,000 wells) has wider significance

as it consists most recently of pad-drilled unconventional

gas wells, with significant horizontal extent, multi-stage

fractured. The oldest of these wells and other vertical/

deviated well stock are currently being abandoned. The

data reveals a large wave of abandonments coming in the

next decade and a significant increase in reported Surface

Casing Vent Flow (SCVF) over the past decade, which will

lead to rising P&A costs.

Speaker Biography

Majid Bizhani was awarded with Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the

University of Alberta in Canada. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher

at the University of British Columbia. Majid’s research experience and

interests are closely related to different aspects of Drilling & Completion

engineering. He studied hole cleaning during his Ph.D. and

. studies.

For the past two years, Majid has been working on projects related

to wellbore cementing. Primary cementing is his main research area;

however, he is also actively engaged in research pertaining to Plug &

Abandonment activities.

Majid Bizhani et al.

, J Ind Environ Chem, Volume:3

DOI: 10.35841/2591-7331-C3-014