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SPECIAL REPORT: Wellheads provide means for abandoning hurricane-damaged wells

04/23/2007
Diver-installed wellheads facilitate plugging and abandoning wells damaged in recent storms in the Gulf of Mexico.Storms and hurricanes in 2004 and again in 2005 extensively damaged many platforms in the gulf. The US Minerals Management Service estimates that in 2005 Hurricane Katrina destroyed 46 platforms and extensively damaged 20, while Rita destroyed 69 platforms and extensively damaged 32. Accurate numbers of damaged wells are unavailable, but one estimate is that the industry will have to plug and abandon more than 1,000 wells because of these storms.Most of these damaged and destroyed platforms and wells were in water depth less than 400 ft and installed in the late 1960s and 1970...
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