UNSPSC 71121012: Oilfield pressure testing services

Pressure testing services using cementing service equipment.

UNSPSC 71121012 Oilfield pressure testing services is a Commodity code that encompasses well plugging, abandonment, and site restoration services for orphaned and inactive oil and gas wells, as well as pressure and integrity testing for in-service wellheads. State and local governments, primarily environmental and natural resource agencies, procure these services to remediate abandoned wells, comply with environmental regulations, and restore sites to baseline conditions. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has posted the largest concentration of recent activity, with four direct solicitations in July 2026 (due July 21, 2026) for plugging and site restoration of 38 orphaned gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm counties. These solicitations require unit pricing for comprehensive service matrices covering labor, equipment, cementing, wireline operations, and site restoration, with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage compliance mandatory. Mississippi and Texas have also issued recent orphan-well remediation procurements—Mississippi's Oil and Gas Board soliciting well plugging services for seven to fourteen wells at a time under federal IIJA funding, and Texas's General Land Office and Railroad Commission issuing RFQs for statewide well plugging capacity. A secondary line of activity covers potable and irrigation water well construction, testing, and rehabilitation; Florida counties (Sarasota, Marion, Collier, Hillsborough, Seminole) and California municipalities have posted opportunities for new well drilling, pump station repairs, and rehabilitation services with response dates ranging from May through August 2026.

The Michigan orphan-well opportunities dominate the recent pipeline and show the tightest timelines; the New Haven Energy Section 3, Section 4, Section 5-10, and Section 31-33 projects all posted in mid-July 2026 with July 21 response deadlines and mandatory attendance at pre-bid meetings on July 9. These are prequalified-vendor-only solicitations—bidders must have been awarded prior RFPs (numbered 210000000834, 220000000547, 220000001850, 220000002631, 240000000951) and cannot participate without that credential. Technical evaluation weighs key personnel, business-owned equipment, technical experience, and vendor questions equally at 25 points each, with an 80-point minimum threshold for award consideration and final selection on best value. Mississippi's oil and gas board procurements (posted March–April 2026) target similar scope—well plugging, site remediation, reclamation—but use a broader competitive process and target contractors statewide with five years' minimum experience and valid state business licenses. Water well and pump station work is more geographically dispersed, with Seminole County (Florida) managing a master service agreement for wastewater pump station repair on a task-order basis with no guaranteed volume, and Eastern Municipal Water District (California) establishing multiple on-call well maintenance contracts with prevailing wage compliance and performance-based pricing. The code shows consistent activity across the Southeast (Florida, Mississippi, Georgia) and upper Midwest (Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin), with lighter activity in Southwest and Western jurisdictions. Orphan-well remediation is federally funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and administered through state environmental or oil-and-gas boards; water well construction and maintenance is typically municipally funded and managed by utilities or public works departments.