Oil & Gas UK Releases Updated Guidelines for Well Operations Best Practice

Oil & Gas UK released updated guidelines for the abandonment of wells together with accompanying guidance on generating cost estimates to support this activity. 

“Oil & Gas UK developed this fifth issue of the guidelines with well-operators from member companies and other stakeholders to clarify good practice. These guidelines represent just two of over thirty peer-reviewed guidelines published to date by Oil & Gas UK to raise the professional standards of the industry” Oonagh Werngren, Oil & Gas UK’s operations director, said on Tuesday. 

The purpose of the publications is to lower costs and make UK operations more efficient.

“As the sector steps up its effort to tackle its cost base and improve efficiency, the guidelines on well abandonment cost estimation provide industry with a common framework in which to generate more consistent and complete cost estimates” Werngren added.