UNSPSC 71122608: Multilateral well completion services

Installation of production equipment in a well with multiple branches.

UNSPSC 71122608 Multilateral well completion services, a Commodity code, encompasses well plugging, abandonment, and site restoration work that state and local governments procure to decommission orphaned or end-of-life production wells. The code's scope includes all labor, equipment, materials, and specialized services required to seal wells permanently—plugging operations, casing and tubing work, cementing, wireline services, equipment removal, site preparation and remediation, and waste disposal. State and local issuing bodies pursuing this code are primarily environmental and natural resources departments (such as Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy), state oil and gas regulators (the Texas General Land Office and Railroad Commission of Texas, Mississippi Oil and Gas Board), and municipal utilities managing legacy infrastructure. The activity spans state environmental remediation programs funded through federal infrastructure grants, particularly the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Orphaned Wells Program. Geographic concentration is evident in Michigan (multiple concurrent direct solicitations for New Haven Energy gas storage wells in Gratiot and Montcalm counties, July 2026), Texas (statewide well plugging RFQs through the General Land Office and Railroad Commission), Mississippi (orphaned well plugging IFBs across multiple counties), and select municipalities in Florida, Illinois, and Georgia managing aging municipal wells or water infrastructure.

Recent representative solicitations show the code's active use for large-scale environmental compliance work. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy posted four direct solicitations (DS 260000000032, 260000000033, 260000000034, 260000000035) on July 16, 2026, all due July 21, 2026, seeking unit-priced bids from prequalified contractors to plug 38 orphaned gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm counties; scope includes site supervision, labor across multiple rig and craft classifications, equipment rental, drilling supplies, cementing, wireline services, and site restoration, with Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements and technical evaluation weighted equally on key personnel, business-owned equipment, technical experience, and vendor questionnaire responses at 25 points each, with 80-point minimum for award consideration. The Texas General Land Office and Railroad Commission solicit well plugging services statewide through qualifications-based RFQs targeting both routine and emergency abandonment across multiple districts, with explicit set-asides for Historically Underutilized Businesses and veteran-owned firms. The Mississippi Oil and Gas Board issued multiple IFBs (3160007881, 3160007966, 3160007967) in March and April 2026 for orphaned well plugging at sites across the state, requiring five-year experience documentation and insurance coverage ranging from $1 million to $4 million in pollution liability. Activity is moderately dispersed across state environmental agencies and regional water districts but concentrated in states with active orphaned well remediation programs backed by federal infrastructure funding; federal compliance requirements (Davis-Bacon, Build America Buy America, infrastructure grant conditions) and prequalification or prior-award gating are standard across these solicitations.