Shallow Gas & Post-Abandonment Offshore Well Leakage
Engineering, IT, Mathematics and Statistics
ABOUT THE INDUSTRY PARTNER
CODA is an independent not-for-profit organisation established to support the growth of the oil and gas decommissioning industry in Australia. CODA works with all key stakeholders involved in decommissioning (governments, operators, regulators, supply chain) to support the delivery of the best possible environmental and community outcomes.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Opportunity to apply research skills to a real world technical problem.
- Contribution to improved environmental and social outcomes as well as efficiency for future decommissioning of oil and gas projects.
- Development of professional teamwork and business communication skills.
- Interfacing and liaising with stakeholders including energy companies, project managers and decision makers in multi-national energy sector organisations
RESEARCH TO BE CONDUCTED
The investigation is expected to include:
- Review and characterisation of well leakage and barrier-failure frequency statistics and their integrity in a global and local context (including, where available, the output of forward modelling activities).
- Identification of remediation techniques for leaking post-abandonment wells and assessment of the global track record of remedial operations.
- Compilation of any available case studies outlining best practice in the planning of operations and contingencies to effectively manage risks relating to both known and unexpected shallow gas accumulations during well abandonment (controls and mitigations).
Key activities within this scope to include:
- A structured search and acquisition process for all relevant data and information.
- Sorting and compilation of data and information into a suitable database or repository.
- The development of data evaluation frameworks that ensure consistent comparison and relevant grouping of datasets according to parameters such as location, age, construction and purpose of wells.
- Analytics and the generation of new well/barrier failure statistics as considered appropriate to effectively represent the key findings.
SKILLS WISH LIST
If you’re a postgraduate research student and meet some or all the below we want to hear from you. We strongly encourage women, indigenous and disadvantaged candidates to apply:
- Strong technical research and analytics skills.
- Data and information management and compilation.
- Science and technology background.
- Prior knowledge and understanding of offshore oil and gas well operation and common well engineering methodologies is not essential but would be a big advantage.
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
- An independent critical evaluation of the integrity of barrier failure frequency statistics for offshore wells.
- Global perspectives on best-practice shallow gas management and the remediation of post-abandonment well leaks.
- A short summary report outlining the search, acquisition and data evaluation/qualification processes, as well as the key findings in relation to the integrity of well/barrier failure statistics and the main causative mechanisms.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
The intern will receive $3,300 per month of the internship, usually in the form of scholarship payments.
It is expected that the intern will primarily undertake this research project during regular business hours and maintain contact with their academic mentor throughout the internship either through face-to-face or phone meetings as appropriate.
The intern and their academic mentor will have the opportunity to negotiate the project’s scope, milestones and timeline during the project planning stage.
Please note, applications are reviewed regularly and this internship may be filled prior to the advertised closing date if a suitable applicant is identified. Early submissions are encouraged.
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