Collaboration and sharing of collective learnings in Plugging and Abandonment (P&A)
On the Norwegian continental shelf, there are around 2,300 wells that will be permanently plugged and abandoned sooner or later. Norwegian operators are planning to plug and abandon around 300 of these wells over the next eight to ten years. The remaining wells will come in the next decades.
- “Permanent plugging of wells will play a pivotal part of the activities taking place on the Norwegian continental shelf over the coming years. This makes it vital that we carry out the work safely, while at the same time collaborating to share learnings, experiences and key takeaways along the way”, says Nina Ringøen from Havtil’s section for drilling and well technology.
Collaboration to share collective learnings and experience-based knowledge will boost the chances of success in this area.
Collaboration and sharing of collective learnings were the subject of Havtil’s fullboooked seminar on plugging and abandonment on 7th of May this year.
All presenters from Havtils plug and abandoment seminar, May 2026 Photo: Wellcem
The seminar focused on sharing of collective learning and experience-based knowledge to increase the chances of bringing about continuous improvement and preventing well control incidents in connection with the increase in the number of plugging operations taking place over the next few years.
“We had a highly productive day at the Havtil P&A Seminar yesterday. The presentations were insightful, high quality, and covered highly relevant topics throughout the day. Having attended many P&A seminars over the past 10 years, I can confidently say this was one of the very best. There is a way forward — and we are going to achieve it together” says the service provider Wellcem.
“This years focus was from our point Transparency, Openness and Trust. This is for sure important topics for learning of past experience and driving better technical solutions for the future. And equally important considering the emerging new contract forms where Operators are sharing more responsibilities and scope with service vendors as part of the P&A planning and execution. “ said 360Energy (Thomas KIbsgaard-Vatn).
The more we share knowledge across the industry, the better we will all become at managing well integrity and well control throughout the life cycle, from well design to operations and ultimately to the safe plugging and permanent abandonment of the 2,300 wells, concluded Havtil in the wrap-up.