Well Verification Studies

For clients who need a comprehensive and rigorous peer review of their assets, AGR offers an excellent network of outstanding professionals in every specialism.

Clients partner with AGR on well verification and due diligence matters because of our global experience we have in successfully managing and designing wells in accordance with strict regulatory requirements.

Together, AGR’s Well Management and Reservoir Management departments provide a multi-disciplined team of engineers equipped with the specialist knowledge to ensure compliance throughout the full acquire, select, appraise, develop, produce and abandon cycle.

As a fully independent well engineering consultancy, we provide unbiased and objective peer reviews, based on decades of experience.   

At all stages of the asset life cycle

We are engaged by a variety of energy businesses to carry out peer reviews at different stages of asset maturity. Through close collaboration with AGR Consultancy, which is one of the leading global recruitment specialists in the energy sector, we are able to source carefully matched reviewers for any type of evaluation.

Typical assignments

Our clients benefit from a range of services in this area, including the review of:

• Drilling, completion, workover or abandonment plans and programmes
• Well timings and costs
• Operational readiness
• Regulatory preparedness
• Operational performance
• Incidents and non conformances
• Examination and reclassification of suspended wells.

A highly experienced, multi-disciplined team

Our independent review process will provide you with a technical report, outlining key findings, conclusions and technical recommendations.

Once this report is accepted, an improvement plan will then be developed. This is a detailed roadmap for implementing key changes and recommendations, designed to help you achieve your goals and maximise success.

Our experts focus on a number of areas, including:

• Reviews of joint-venture operator plans
• Reviews of drilling programme farm-in opportunities
• Well cost validation and input to field economics
• Well design review and critique
• Regulatory compliance and requirements review
• Well decommissioning liability review
• Gap analysis and benchmarking
• Competency and risk assessment
• Performance review