BP says they were successful in placing a cement plug on the leaking Gulf oil well, the final step of their static kill procedure. Their next effort will be the ...

Coiled tubing (CT) in plug and abandonment (P&A) is a rig or rigless conveyance method to clean, access, and place permanent well barriers (cement/mechanical), verify integrity, and prepare the well ...

Lewaa Hmadeh, a PhD candidate at NTNU's Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, holds a test well plug made of a bismuth-tin alloy. The marks on the plug show that the alloy is MCP 137, which is made ...

A project in which existing 7-in. liners were tied back to surface then cemented stopped casing leaks in the Sarir and Messla oil fields in Libya. Many wells operated by Arabian Gulf Oil Co (AGOCO) in ...

A US presidential panel probing the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster examined Tuesday the oil industry's safety culture, after its lead investigator said he found no evidence BP and its partners had ...