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Well Decommissioning 2026
The Leading Conference for the Decommissioning Sector
Location: 3-4 June 2026 P&J Live, Aberdeen
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – DEADLINE FRIDAY 23RD JANUARY
Now in its 15th year, the SPE Well Decommissioning conference unites energy professions specialising in decommissioning and late-life operations from leading operators, service providers, academic and regulatory bodies. Decommissioning can ensure that the UK’s world-leading supply chain is equipped to help operators clean up their oil and gas infrastructure over the next 50 years and support the carbon storage sector, which will rely on many of the same resources. The forecast cost of decommissioning from 2025 onwards is now £44bn in 2024 prices, with well decommissioning work being the most expensive aspect of decommissioning at £17.5bn according to the NSTA UKCS Decommissioning Cost and Performance Update 2025. This includes forecast well decommissioning activities on 3,277 wells up to 2060, with 2,018 wells planned to be decommissioned from 2025 – 2034 according to the NSTA Wells Insight Report 2025.
At this conference, delegates will discover the latest in well decommissioning by exploring success stories, case histories and lessons learned with energy experts from across the energy sector.
The themes for 2026 will include but will not be limited to:
– Lessons learned from completed workscopes: highlights and hinderances.
– Deployment of new technologies and techniques.
– The implementation process for new technologies and techniques.
– Subsurface considerations for P&A.
– Contracting strategies for well decommissioning scopes.
– Collaboration and collective alignment.
– Upcoming Operator Scopes of Work: opportunities and challenges.
– Through-tubing; where are we now and what still needs to be done.
– Managing legacy well risks in the energy transition.
– Understanding and managing sustained annulus pressure in well decommissioning.
– Vessel-based, rigless and rig-based well decommissioning.
– The use of data, digital strategies and AI.
– Legislation, liabilities and legal ramifications.
– Insights from academia.
Abstracts are welcome from the UKCS and also lessons learned from other areas.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT
Send your short 200-word abstract by 23rd January in a word document format by email to aberdeen.events@spe-uk.org
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