Norwegian P&A Laboratories

With financing from the Research Council of Norway a national Plugging and Abandonment (P&A) infrastructure is being established at NORCE, SINTEF, UiS and NTNU.

Two full scale laboratories have been constructed at NORCE, Ullandhaug, Stavanger:

P&A Test Well
Pressure and Leakage Test Laboratory

The facilities is typically used by the larger operators within the oil and gas industry to test their plug and abandonment solutions.

P&A Test Well

Well U8 at Ullrigg Test Centre, NORCE
Large-diameter well for testing new P&A methods with a focus on Rigless P&A
Enables repeated P&A of the same well for testing and verification of new methods and materials
Repeated “permanent” well abandonment & completion recovery
12 ¼” TD @ ≈ 900 m

Pressure and Leakage Test Laboratory

A facility for testing the sealing capacity of barrier materials under realistic conditions of pressure and temperature
Construction of test cells for experiments and technology verification
Testing of leakage properties using high precision piston pumps & N₂ pressure controller
Full casing joint length
Vertical or horizontal rig-up
Mixing and placement equivalent to offshore
Able to maintain a "downhole" test environment for extended periods

Contact

Visit us

Olav Hanssens Vei 15, Stavanger

Contact person

David Gardner

daga@norcereserarch.no

+ 47 404 60 090

Invoices

NORCE Research AS

Address: P.O.B 22 Nygårdstangen

NO-5838 Bergen

Organisation number: 919 408 049.

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