Challenge Reduce overall costs associated with plug and abandonment applications Results • Saved customer one trip during P&A operations by combining plug setting and cementing with the casing cutting run • Decreased HSE handling exposure by reducing the need for an additional trip • With rig rates approximately $10,000 USD/hour, each trip eliminated, saved an estimated $7,500 even at these shallow working depths. A major customer in Thailand had contracted Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), to deploy the Thailand Wellbore Intervention team in over 800 plug-setting and casing cuts on this shallow-well plug and abandonment campaign. Traditionally, these conventional operations required two trips. The customer tripped into the hole to set a plug, f

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