Decarbonize and Repurpose Oil and Gas Wells

The presentation reviews the challenges to creating sustainability in well decommissioning. Starting with asset economics, an overview of well decommissioning subsurface and well operation fundamentals. Then it pivots to enablement, discussing the design of disruptive operation structures and development of sustainable well decommissioning operations which reduce environmental and financial risk. The considerations for design for decommissioning and carbon capture re-purposing are discussed, to assess the governance and structures needed to create value from the wellbore. Biography: Steven Allan Canny is the Director of P&A Solutions with Archer, based in the United Arab Emirates. He has worked across five continents in engineering, sales, regional management and global leadership roles in the well decommissioning sector. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Design Engineering, and has granted and pending patents in well intervention and decommissioning equipment. He is also an active author on the subject with 38 publications, including 13 manuscripts. Most recently Steven has developed the EPSm contracting approach for end to end Well Decommissioning and commercialized several first in the sector in Central Asia, South East Asia and Australasia.