Well management firm, Exceed is pleased to announce that it has been successful in securing a contract to support Fairfield Energy Limited in its forthcoming North Sea well plugging and abandonment campaign.

Fairfield’s program includes 45 platform wells and 16 subsea wells, all of which will be plugged and permanently abandoned. The platform wells decommissioning will commence in the next few months with the operational phase of the subsea wells work due to start in 2017.

John Anderson, Exceed commercial director

John Anderson, Exceed commercial director, said: “This award demonstrates the capacity of Exceed as a multi-disciplined well management organisation capable of providing support to complex well decommissioning activities. This will be a major focus going forward, both in the UKCS and internationally, and Exceed is delighted to be supporting Fairfield in one of the largest single UKCS well abandonment campaigns of this nature to date.”

Exceed provides outsourced well engineering and project management services with its head office in Aberdeen, Scotland. Exceed works for a wide range of operators in the oil and gas business in the UKCS and internationally utilising the company’s multi discipline team of professionals.

Fairfield is a well-established UKCS operator which is now adding decommissioning expertise to its existing capabilities.