UNSPSC 71121507: Formation dip measurement when drilling services

UNSPSC 71121507 Formation dip measurement when drilling services is a Commodity code that captures well abandonment, plugging, and remediation work state and local governments buy when they retire orphaned, contaminated, or surplus water and oil/gas wells—services required across water utilities, environmental agencies, and resource management authorities. Recent solicitations show Michigan and Mississippi governments actively procuring comprehensive turnkey well-plugging packages covering drilling rig mobilization, casing and tubing work, cementing, wireline services, waste disposal, and site restoration under Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements, often funded through federal orphaned-wells or infrastructure grants.

State-level environmental and natural resource agencies dominate this code's activity: the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has posted four active direct solicitations (July 2026, responses due July 21) for 38 total orphan gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm counties, each restricted to vendors prequalified through prior RFPs and requiring unit pricing on 68-item matrices, technical scoring across key personnel, equipment lists, experience, and vendor questionnaires with 80-point thresholds for award consideration. The Mississippi Oil and Gas Board has issued three open competitive bids for orphan well plugging across seven separate wells (April 2026 deadlines), offering federal IIJA funding with 5-year experience minimums, three trade references, and lowest-responsive-bidder evaluation. Outside the orphan-wells category, municipal water utilities in Florida, California, and elsewhere post well drilling, production-well construction, and rehabilitation work under this code—recent examples include Marion County, Florida bidding four new 850-foot potable wells (May 21 deadline, IFB format), Collier County bidding improvements to two production wells at $2.9 million (October 2025), and Eastern Municipal Water District in California seeking well maintenance and rehabilitation contractors with C-57 Well Drilling and C-61/D-21 machinery licenses (April 2026 RFP, five-year terms). Geographic spread spans Michigan (orphan gas wells), Mississippi (oil and gas abandonment), Florida (water supply drilling and rehabilitation), California (municipal well services), and scattered activity in Illinois, Texas, Oregon, and Georgia. The recent-opportunity profile shows two distinct market segments—large-scale federal-grant-funded orphan-well programs in oil and gas basins and steady municipal water-utility well drilling and maintenance procurement—with response requirements typically demanding 60–90-day lead times, extensive insurance and prevailing-wage compliance, and prequalification or trade-reference vetting before bid submission.