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Plug and Abandon (P&A)

Regardless of how the global demand for petroleum products develops in the future, it is an inevitable fact that sooner or later, all current and future wells must be abandoned with eternity in mind. The traditional method for placing these barriers have been to pump a cement slurry into the well and wait for it to cure.

Lost Circulation Material (LCM)

Lost circulation in a drilling operation is a critical event that can cause anything from downtime (NPT), Significant loss of drilling fluid to weak or fractured formations or if not handled swiftly, can end up in critical well control operations causing severe NPT and worse.

Barrier Behind Casing (BBC)

In all oil and/or gas wells it is crucial and of utmost importance to install reliable sealing/barrier elements in the well, both inside and outside the steel casings in order to prevent oil and gas from escaping the well and travelling to the surface and/or into other permeable zones, especially fresh water aquifers.

Stig Hetlevik

Mr. Hetlevik is the founder and CEO of Flopetrol Well Barrier AS. He has been working in the oil and gas-industry since 1980. His experience includes 20 years of fieldwork in Drilling and Well operations on/offshore within the service industry (Flopetrol Schlumberger), for Operating companies (Norsk Hydro, Saga Petroleum, BP, ExxonMobil, Statoil), and for Norwegian Authorities (NPD/PSA) as a principal engineer within Drilling, well operations and well integrity. He has been a Chairman, and later a member of NORSOK Expert Group Drilling (EGD) from 1999, which is still ongoing. His experience includes over 19 years in project and management positions, including VP Operations in Prosafe Offshore Drilling, Co-Founder and VP Operations/Projects Offshore Rig Services ( Drilling Contractor) for Design and construction of 3 midwater semi’s. He previously had the position as Director Marine Operations in Eastern Hemisphere for FMC Technologies, with all operations relevant to subsea systems.

Email: stig.hetlevik(a)flopetrol-wb.com

Phone: +47 905 90 967

Kjell Erik Drevdal

Mr. Drevdal holds a Petroleum engineering degree from University of Stavanger and has more than 35 years of experience from the oil industry, related to drilling and well technology and operations: On-/offshore drilling engineering/supervisor positions with several major E&P co’s. Managerial positions with drilling contractor, equipment manufacturer, technology development company and technology/service provider.

E-mail: kjell.erik.drevdal(a)flopetrol-wb.com

Phone: +47 916 43 552

Vidar Rygg

Mr. Rygg holds an MSc degree in Petroleum Engineering from NTNU, Trondheim and has worked in the Oil Service industry since 1994. He started his career as a Wireline Field Engineer in with broad field experience from land, offshore and ultra-deep water districts in Africa, Europe and Latin America. After leaving the field he became the Operations Manager for Baker Atlas in Brazil, and later a Sr. Application Advisor at Baker Atlas main office in Houston TX, before returning to Norway in 2006.

He started with Sandaband Well Plugging as a Project Manager in 2008 and now holds the position of CTO at FloPetrol Well Barrier when the former company was acquired in 2016.

Email: vidar.rygg(a)flopetrol-wb.com

Phone: +47 452 08 100

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