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Welcome to the Well Integrity Technical Section

Management of well integrity is about applying technical, operational, and organizational methods to ensure containment of fluids and reduce the risk or prevent the escape of fluids at the surface or in subterranean formations.

The Well Integrity Technical Section is a community for those with an interest in the safe management of well integrity throughout all phases of the well life cycle. The purpose of the technical section is to:

  • Provide a forum for SPE members for robust discussion and knowledge sharing between professionals and academia within the area of well integrity.
  • Inform the community about the latest news and practices in well integrity, such as updates to standards, key technical conferences, and important SPE papers.
  • Support and promote knowledge, skills, and best practices within well integrity management through PetroWiki, webinars, workshops, Distinguished Lecturer programs, conference technical sessions, and publications such as JPT.
  • Work closely with all relevant SPE technical disciplines and sections.


ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  Board members:ย  ย  WITS Chair Person:ย  Ainur Kakenย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  Past Chair:ย  Valerie Wilsonย  ย  ย  ย  Program Chair:ย  Jovan Stojkovskiย 

ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย Administrative Chair:ย  Talib Syedย ย ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  ย  Membership Chair: ย Hans Jacob Lundย  ย  ย  ย ย ย Industry Liaison Officer: Michael Edwardsย 

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January Blog - U.S. Class VI Wells Update (full text) by Valerie Wilson

L๐—ˆ๐—s ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐–พ๐—‘๐–ผ๐—‚๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ news ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ข๐—…๐–บ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–จ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—…๐—Œ ๐—‚๐—‡ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ด.๐–ฒ.! ๐–  ๐–ข๐—…๐–บ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–จ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—… ๐—‚๐—Œ ๐–บ ๐—๐—’๐—‰๐–พ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐—‚๐—‡๐—ƒ๐–พ๐–ผ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—… ๐—Ž๐—Œ๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐—€๐–พ๐—ˆ๐—…๐—ˆ๐—€๐—‚๐–ผ ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—Š๐—Ž๐–พ๐—Œ๐—๐—‹๐–บ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐–ผ๐–บ๐—‹๐–ป๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐–ฝ๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‘๐—‚๐–ฝ๐–พ (๐–ข๐–ฎ๐Ÿค). ๐–ณ๐—๐–พ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—…๐—Œ ๐–บ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‰๐—‹๐—‚๐—†๐–บ๐—‹๐—‚๐—…๐—’ ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—๐—๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐—๐—๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—€๐— ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ด๐–ฒ ๐–ค๐—‡๐—๐—‚๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—†๐–พ๐—‡๐—๐–บ๐—… ๐–ฏ๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—๐–พ๐–ผ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐– ๐—€๐–พ๐—‡๐–ผ๐—’ (๐–ค๐–ฏ๐– ), ๐–พ๐—‘๐–ผ๐–พ๐—‰๐— ๐—‚๐—‡ ๐—Œ๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ๐—Œ ๐—๐—๐–บ๐— ๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ ๐–ป๐–พ๐–พ๐—‡ ๐—€๐—‹๐–บ๐—‡๐—๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐—‰๐—‹๐—‚๐—†๐–บ๐–ผ๐—’ (๐—‚.๐–พ. ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–บ๐–ป๐—‚๐—…๐—‚๐—๐—’ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐—†๐–บ๐—‡๐–บ๐—€๐–พ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—‰๐—‹๐—ˆ๐–ผ๐–พ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–บ๐— ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐—Œ๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ ๐—…๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—…). ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐—น๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: ๐—๐—ฎ๐—ป. ๐Ÿฑ๐˜๐—ต, ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฐ, ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ค๐–ฏ๐–  ๐—‚๐—Œ๐—Œ๐—Ž๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–บ ๐–ฟ๐—‚๐—‡๐–บ๐—… ๐—‹๐—Ž๐—…๐–พ ๐—€๐—‹๐–บ๐—‡๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—‰๐—‹๐—‚๐—†๐–บ๐–ผ๐—’ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ซ๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‚๐—Œ๐—‚๐–บ๐—‡๐–บ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐—‹๐–พ๐—€๐—Ž๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐–ข๐—…๐–บ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–จ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—…๐—Œ. ๐–ซ๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‚๐—Œ๐—‚๐–บ๐—‡๐–บ ๐—ƒ๐—ˆ๐—‚๐—‡๐—Œ ๐–ญ๐—ˆ๐—‹๐—๐— ๐–ฃ๐–บ๐—„๐—ˆ๐—๐–บ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ถ๐—’๐—ˆ๐—†๐—‚๐—‡๐—€, ๐—๐—๐—‚๐–ผ๐— ๐—‹๐–พ๐–ผ๐–พ๐—‚๐—๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–ข๐—…๐–บ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–จ ๐—‰๐—‹๐—‚๐—†๐–บ๐–ผ๐—’ ๐—‚๐—‡ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿข๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿช ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐Ÿค๐Ÿข๐Ÿค๐Ÿข, ๐—‹๐–พ๐—Œ๐—‰๐–พ๐–ผ๐—๐—‚๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—’. ๐–ณ๐—๐–พ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—…๐—…๐—ˆ๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—Œ๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ๐—Œ ๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ ๐–บ๐—…๐—Œ๐—ˆ ๐–บ๐—‰๐—‰๐—…๐—‚๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐—‰๐—‹๐—‚๐—†๐–บ๐–ผ๐—’: ๐–ฌ๐—‚๐–ผ๐—๐—‚๐—€๐–บ๐—‡, ๐–ญ๐–พ๐— ๐–ฌ๐–พ๐—‘๐—‚๐–ผ๐—ˆ, ๐– ๐—‹๐—‚๐—“๐—ˆ๐—‡๐–บ, ๐–ฏ๐–พ๐—‡๐—‡๐—Œ๐—’๐—…๐—๐–บ๐—‡๐—‚๐–บ, ๐–ณ๐–พ๐—‘๐–บ๐—Œ, ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ถ๐–พ๐—Œ๐— ๐–ต๐—‚๐—‹๐—€๐—‚๐—‡๐—‚๐–บ. ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ three ๐–ข๐—…๐–บ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–จ ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—๐—Œ ๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‚๐—Œ๐—Œ๐—Ž๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐—’ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ถ๐—’๐—ˆ๐—†๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐–ฃ๐–พ๐—‰๐–บ๐—‹๐—๐—†๐–พ๐—‡๐— ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐–ค๐—‡๐—๐—‚๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—†๐–พ๐—‡๐—๐–บ๐—… ๐–ฐ๐—Ž๐–บ๐—…๐—‚๐—๐—’ (๐–ฃ๐–ค๐–ฐ) โ€“ ๐—†๐–บ๐—‹๐—„๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ฟ๐—‚๐—‹๐—Œ๐— ๐–ข๐—…๐–บ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–จ ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—๐—Œ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—‚๐—Œ๐—Œ๐—Ž๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐—’ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐—Œ๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐–ถ๐—’๐—ˆ๐—†๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ for the ๐–ฅ๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—๐—‚๐–พ๐—‹ ๐–ข๐–บ๐—‹๐–ป๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐–ฒ๐—ˆ๐—…๐—Ž๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—Œ ๐–ฒ๐—๐–พ๐–พ๐—๐—๐–บ๐—๐–พ๐—‹ ๐–ข๐–บ๐—‹๐–ป๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐–ฒ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹๐–บ๐—€๐–พ ๐–ง๐—Ž๐–ป. ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐˜๐—ต, ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ข๐–บ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹๐—‡๐—‚๐–บ ๐–ฑ๐–พ๐—Œ๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‹๐–ผ๐–พ๐—Œ ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—‹๐—‰๐—ˆ๐—‹๐–บ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡ (๐–ข๐–ฑ๐–ข) ๐–บ๐—‡๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‡๐–ผ๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐—๐—๐–บ๐— ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ค๐–ฏ๐–  ๐—‹๐–พ๐—…๐–พ๐–บ๐—Œ๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐–ฝ๐—‹๐–บ๐–ฟ๐— ๐–ข๐—…๐–บ๐—Œ๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–จ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—… ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—๐—Œ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ค๐—…๐—„ ๐–ง๐—‚๐—…๐—…๐—Œ ๐–ฅ๐—‚๐–พ๐—…๐–ฝ ๐—‚๐—‡ ๐–ช๐–พ๐—‹๐—‡ ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‡๐—๐—’, ๐–ข๐–บ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹๐—‡๐—‚๐–บ. ๐–ณ๐—๐–พse ๐–บ๐—‹๐–พ ๐–ข๐–บ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹๐—‡๐—‚๐–บโ€™๐—Œ ๐–ฟ๐—‚๐—‹๐—Œ๐— ๐–ฝ๐—‹๐–บ๐–ฟ๐— ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—๐—Œ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐—Ž๐—‡๐–ฝ๐–พ๐—‹๐—€๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ข๐–ฎ๐Ÿค ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—Š๐—Ž๐–พ๐—Œ๐—๐—‹๐–บ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡, ๐–บ๐—Œ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—… ๐–บ๐—Œ ๐—๐—๐–พ for ๐—Ž๐—๐—‚๐—…๐—‚๐—“๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐–บ ๐–ฝ๐–พ๐—‰๐—…๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐—ˆ๐—‚๐—… ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐—‡๐–บ๐—๐—Ž๐—‹๐–บ๐—… ๐—€๐–บ๐—Œ ๐–ฟ๐—‚๐–พ๐—…๐–ฝ ๐—‚๐—‡ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ด.๐–ฒ. ๐–ฎ๐—‡ ๐—๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฐ๐˜๐—ต, ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ค๐–ฏ๐–  ๐–บ๐—‰๐—‰๐—‹๐—ˆ๐—๐–พ๐–ฝ ๐—๐—๐—ˆ ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—๐—Œ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ๐—€๐—‚๐—‡ ๐–ผ๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—Œ๐—๐—‹๐—Ž๐–ผ๐—๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐—ˆ๐–ฟ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ถ๐–บ๐–ป๐–บ๐—Œ๐— ๐–ข๐–บ๐—‹๐–ป๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐–ฒ๐–พ๐—‹๐—๐—‚๐–ผ๐–พ๐—Œ ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—…๐—Œ ๐—‚๐—‡ ๐–จ๐—‡๐–ฝ๐—‚๐–บ๐—‡๐–บโ€™๐—Œ ๐–ต๐–พ๐—‹๐—†๐—‚๐—…๐—…๐—‚๐—ˆ๐—‡ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ต๐—‚๐—€๐—ˆ ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—‡๐—๐—‚๐–พ๐—Œ. T๐—๐–พ ๐—˜๐—ฃ๐—” ๐—–๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฉ๐—œ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ shows ๐—๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐–บ๐—‹๐–พ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿด๐Ÿญ ๐—–๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ฉ๐—œ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—‚๐—‡ ๐—‹๐–พ๐—๐—‚๐–พ๐—. ๐—”๐—น๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€! ๐–ค๐—‘๐–ผ๐—‚๐—๐—‚๐—‡๐—€ ๐—๐—‚๐—†๐–พ๐—Œ ๐–บ๐—๐–พ๐–บ๐–ฝโ€ฆ๐—†๐—ˆ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ผ๐—ˆ๐—†๐–พ!

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November Blog - Our WITS Opening Night Dinner at SPE ATCE was SOLD OUT! (full text) by Michael Edwards

Our well integrity enthusiasts showed up in a big way; from the service sector, to operators to academic institutions and many others participated in a dinner networking event, keynote and lively discussion highlighting the latest on well integrity practices, regulatory policies, technologies and services. We highlighted a panel discussion to discuss how we are empowering the workforce of the future. Excellent participation by our audience.ย 
The Well integrity discipline, expertise, life-cycle processes and risk verification methodology are becoming more sought after than ever before with the energy transition. From new wells, P&A, reentry to repurposing for CCUS, geothermal and even hydrogen storage, the need for well integrity expertise, life cycle processes, standards, and risk management all have a role to play.ย 
Considering the industryโ€™s large investment in building the well integrity multi-discipline โ€ฆ it was timely and essential for us to relook at how we are empowering our workforce of the future.
For many years the industry has invested in well integrity expertise. This has historically been built with the exceptional 25-40 years experienced engineers that had a wealth of onsite, engineering and multi-discipline experiences. Losing this capability is a high cost and risk for our corporations and industry at large. This discipline is not taught as a single discipline in our universities and rarely in most companies. Well integrity engineers solve a wide diversity of problems, and with new digital tools have the ability to leverage historical data to train faster and improve decision making over a shorter period of time.ย ย 
Our dinner keynote, Alexander Spuskanyuk leads the Well Integrity discipline for ExxonMobil and discussed their approach to well integrity through a well life cycle. He also discussed how they are shaping our new well integrity tools and training programs to empower the workforce of the future.ย ย 
A special thanks to our sponsors Vallourec, Volant, GoWell and Viking Engineering.ย 

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September Blog - The Next Generation of WI Engineers (full text) by Manish Srivastava

The future is very promising for Well Integrity Engineers. With the scope of projects increasing as we continue to progress as โ€˜bridgingโ€™ agents into โ€˜new energyโ€™ integrity world in the energy transition. ย Oil and gas will continue to remain pertinent and the skills gained will transfer to key and growing industries, such as CCUS, geothermal, H2 storage, and so on for well integrity.
During the transition, skill repurposing will be required to fulfil the growing energy industry demands. Engineers will be armed with massive amounts of data that must be structured and analysed to make useful assessments.
Digitization combined with AI/ML is going to be necessary. Well integrity core skills will have to be coupled with IT skills to exploit tools such as IOT, cloud computing, and digital twin to make scalable models for efficient decision making.
It is evident that all the skills and competence required for a well-integrity domain cannot be covered by a single individual. Future WI engineers may be specialized for different life cycle stages or have a governance / regulatory role. The future is bright!

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