UNSPSC 71121602: Well casing planning services

Pre-well and future well casing requirements planning services.

UNSPSC 71121602 Well casing planning services, a Commodity code, captures state and local procurement activity focused on plugging, abandonment, and site restoration of orphaned and inactive wells—most prominently orphaned oil and gas wells but increasingly including municipal water well rehabilitation and replacement projects. The code sees the most concentrated recent activity in Michigan and Mississippi, where state environmental and oil and gas boards are managing federally funded orphan well programs, alongside scattered activity in Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, Oregon, and Illinois centered on municipal water infrastructure. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has posted four direct solicitations in July 2026 (responses due July 21, 2026) for plugging and site restoration of 38 orphan gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm counties—all restricted to prequalified vendors from prior RFPs and requiring Davis-Bacon prevailing wage compliance, unit pricing for 68 line items covering labor, equipment, materials, and specialized services, and detailed project timelines. These solicitations exemplify the scope: comprehensive well abandonment including casing and tubing removal, cementing, drilling, site preparation, mobilization and demobilization, waste disposal, wireline services, and infrastructure restoration, with evaluation emphasizing key personnel experience (25 points), business-owned equipment inventory (25 points), technical capability (25 points), and vendor questionnaire responses (25 points), with 80-point minimum threshold for award consideration on best value, not lowest price.

Issuing bodies span state environmental and resource agencies (Michigan EGLE, Mississippi Oil and Gas Board, Texas Railroad Commission, Illinois Department of Natural Resources), county utilities departments (Seminole County and Hillsborough County, Florida; Volusia County, Florida; Marion County, Florida; Collier County, Florida), municipal water utilities (City of Lubbock, Texas; City of Palm Bay, Florida; Eastern Municipal Water District, California; San Bernardino County, California), and special districts (Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority, Georgia). Florida counties dominate the water well rehabilitation segment with multiple ongoing procurements for pump station maintenance, well improvements, and new potable supply well construction; Michigan's orphan well program represents the largest current volume. Geographic concentration in Michigan, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida reflects both state-level orphan well remediation initiatives funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and routine municipal water infrastructure renewal. A secondary signal appears in municipal water treatment plant design services (City of Lubbock RFQ 26-19719-KM, due July 2, 2026, and earlier Lake 7 Supply Project RFQ due July 9, 2026) where well casing planning integrates with broader treatment plant upgrades, though these fall tangentially to the code's core scope of well abandonment and plugging work.