02 · Well abandonment and rehabilitation
Stop reacting to well closures. Start planning years ahead.
See your real decommissioning liability, sequence P&A alongside operations, and cut the cost of dealing with wells you cannot walk away from.
01 · The pile
The wells aren't going anywhere.
Dormant wells go on the register. Budget covers a fraction of them. The pile grows.
The liability is real, and most of the time it is not on the books, because putting it there is nobody's favourite conversation. So it sits, and it gets bigger, and the plan never gets made.
"Everyone says it's a million dollar asset. It's really 900 once you count what you owe against it."
An operations manager, in their words
02 · The cost
Reacting is the expensive option.
- $100,000 to $200,000To plug a well. Across a large dormant portfolio, that is the number nobody has totalled.
- $15,000 to $30,000 a dayFor a cement unit sitting on standby because the sequence was not planned.
- Two mobilisationsFor jobs that could have been campaigned together.
- An unplanned break inEvery time a well leaks on an integrity test, and everything else stops.
None of that is compliance cost. That is money leaving the business because the work was not sequenced.
03 · Queensland
You can't surrender the problem.
In Queensland you cannot hand the tenure back and walk away. You decommission first, and you stay liable until you do.
That turns decommissioning from a someday problem into a scheduling problem. Scheduling problems have solutions.
04 · The offer
The P&A Liability and Planning Assessment.
Everything stated in dollars saved and liability controlled, because that is the only argument that moves a budget.
- A full abandonment liability register. Every well, its status, estimated cost, and your total exposure. The real number.
- A prioritised P&A schedule, built as ready to go job packages that slot into your existing operational schedule. Campaigned jobs, cement unit timing, workovers aligned.
- A planned versus reactive cost analysis. The dollar case for doing it ahead of time, in your numbers.
- Regulatory alignment. Decommission before surrender obligations and rehabilitation requirements, documented so it holds up with the board and the regulator.
Reacting to closures, liability hidden, costs climbing, no plan you could show anyone.
Planning years out, true exposure known and managed, jobs campaigned efficiently, and a program you can walk into the boss's office with.
05 · Objections
The things people usually ask.
"No budget this year. We'll deal with it later."
Later is the expensive version. The planning engagement pays for itself against a fraction of the avoidable cost, and the analysis shows you where. If the numbers do not stack up for your portfolio we will tell you that on the call.
"It's just a compliance cost."
Compliance is the floor. The money is in sequencing. Campaigned jobs and shared cement units are the difference between a program and a series of expensive surprises.
"We don't have time."
The consultation takes an hour. You get a prioritised summary out of it either way.
Obligation free consultation
An hour on your portfolio. We will help you build a practical roadmap for your P&A program, and point out where the cost savings sit. No obligation to go further.