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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2017
Statoil Petroleum As, Stavanger, NO;
Gisle Stjern, Trondheim, NO;
Gjermund Grimsbo, Trondheim, NO;
Halvor Kjørholt, Trondheim, NO;
Pål Viggo Hemmingsen, Trondheim, NO;
STATOIL PETROLEUM AS, Stavanger, NO;
Abstract
A method of plugging a well extending into a formation to facilitate temporary or permanent abandonment of the well. The method comprises conveying in one trip, a plug assembly and one or more explosive charges through the well together with a structure for providing wet sealant. The plug assembly comprises a foundation plug for supporting the wet sealant. The plug assembly is set beneath a plug formation location, prior to providing the wet sealant. The method also comprises providing the wet sealant to the plug formation location via the structure, so as to submerge the one or more explosive charges in the wet sealant, and then detonating the one or more explosive charges in the wet sealant at the plug formation location to cut through a tubular or tubulars of the well and into the formation.