Well and storage facility integrity
The integrity of wells and storage facilities over the entire life cycle is crucial for the operational safety and economic efficiency of underground projects. It ensures the safe storage of gases, liquids, or energy and minimises environmental and operational risks. UGS GmbH has decades of experience in the development and establishment of integrity standards. We support our customers with comprehensive services to check and ensure well and storage integrity. We work closely with operators, planning offices, service companies, and authorities in order to ensure the highest safety standards – and strengthen the trust of citizens and communities for a sustainable future.
Our services include:
- Investigation and evaluation of geological barriers
- Investigation and evaluation of barrier elements in accordance with BVEG Technische Regel Bohrungsintegrität and Norsok D-010, comparison of barrier elements with acceptance criteria
- Condition assessment and evaluation of casings, including analysis and interpretation of cased hole measurements, analysis and evaluation of the cementation condition, and preparation of proof of function
- Thermodynamic calculations of storage operation, thermodynamic optimisation
- Integrity analyses and assessments of new and existing wells for various applications and storage facilities, life-cycle analyses
- Simulation calculations with Landmark STRESSCHECKTM, COMPASSTM, and WELLCATTM
- Borehole integrity assessments with the in-house software SEW
- Re-evaluating previously backfilled wells
- Development of management systems to ensure well integrity, taking into account national and international standards
- Preparation of management manuals to monitor and ensure well and storage integrity
- Preparation of recommendations for action and development of repair and maintenance plans
- Development and implementation of annular space management
- Investigation and evaluation of leakage paths, use of tracer media
- Planning, monitoring, and evaluation of integrity tests
- Development, installation, and monitoring of measurement systems for recording stress changes in well casings and production strings