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Tim Croucher

Tim Croucher

Project Manager at Go Radical P&A (Energy Transition Norway), a Stavanger-based initiative to radically cut the cost and environmental footprint of oil and gas well plug and abandonment; formerly Wells Excellence and Decommissioning Manager at ConocoPhillips Norway.

Sep 18, 2026

4:53
Do you want to give us a bit of maybe a backstory and then also the vision for the future?
4:57
So five years ago plus, the operators in Norway, pretty much all the operators in Norway got together with a goal to try and look at P&A, plugging and abandonment of wells on the Norwegian continental shelf, and try and identify possible solutions to reduce, significantly reduce, both the cost of P&A and the environmental footprint of P&A.
5:24
And after a good 18 months of joint industry meetings, they decided the best way to progress that initiative would be to establish an independent team.
5:36
So again, under the technology cluster ETN, Energy Transition Norway, they set up a small team, which we now call Go Radical P&A, which is myself and my two colleagues, Kjell-Erik Drevdal and David Gardner.
5:53
and initially our role was to identify new technologies that had the potential to significantly impact the efficiency of P&A, reduce the cost and reduce the environmental footprint.
6:07
We very quickly realised that we were given a goal of actually reducing both cost and environmental footprint of 50%.
6:16
Highly ambitious goal.
7:55
Now through the

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