Fall out from flow to surface

Getting harder to get disposal approved

New regulations make it harder than ever to get disposal and injection approved. The AER now requires applicants review every abandoned well near a new disposal/injector well. The AER wants applicants to ensure that each well has been properly abandoned. This regulatory fall out is partly due to the flow-to-surface problems at Primrose.

The new "checking abandonment" rule caught one applicant by surprise. After drilling and testing an expensive four million dollar injection well, they found out that the AER won't allow them to inject because of a nearby abandoned well that was poorly put to bed.

The applicant faces drilling a duplicate because they didn't know this rule. Without this injection, their whole field and facility must be shut down. If they had used AppIntel to check other similar applications they might have saved the four million. Even submitting their net pay map didn't help.

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It pays to use AppIntel and the experts at Proven Reserves before you spend big capital. Regulations change all the time. You could be stuck sinking a large amount of capital only to have a regulatory issue thwart your project. As you can see from this wasted four million dollar well, the cost is huge.

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Tags: Disposal, Tight

Granger Low  26 Apr 2016

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