XACT service facilitated riser-less integrity test, enabled slot recovery Challenges • Evaluate abandoned well at 20-in. casing shoe • Avoid cost for re-installing riser Results • Completed riser-less formation integrity test • Provided wireless transmission through regular drill pipe, across packer • Opened previously abandoned well for recovery A customer needed to re-evaluate a previously abandoned well in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The slot had been abandoned at the 20-in. casing shoe due to an extremely narrow pore pressure fracture gradient window and the associated risks of weakening the integrity of adjacent wells. The area had a history of shallow hazards and shallow water flow conditions, causing significant problems in the past. To examine the feasibility of

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