Extending Valhall’s lifetime with well plugging
Wednesday 21 April 2021
Plugging of wells at the Valhall field centre has been completed six years earlier and more than five billion Norwegian kroner cheaper than originally planned. The work has also been delivered without serious incidents. Plugging wells is a key part of the modernisation of the Valhall field centre, and thus also in the ambition to produce a total of two billion barrels from the giant in the North Sea.
The Maersk Invincible drilling rig left the Valhall field centre last week. That marked the end of several years of plugging operations on the field. A total of 30 old wells from the original drilling platform (DP) have been plugged over the course of three campaigns since 2014.