UNSPSC 71122616: Expandable pipe/screen well completion services

Use of expandable pipe/screen for sand control during well completion

UNSPSC 71122616 Expandable pipe/screen well completion services is a Commodity code. State and local governments procure well plugging, abandonment, and site restoration services under this code—specifically the sealing and decommissioning of orphaned, non-producing, or out-of-service oil and gas wells, including drilling activities, casing installation, cementing, and infrastructure removal. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy dominates recent activity, issuing four direct solicitations in July 2026 (posted June 29 and July 16) for the plugging and site restoration of 38 orphan gas storage wells across Gratiot and Montcalm counties operated by New Haven Energy LLC. These operations are characterized by prequalified-bidder-only restrictions (limiting competition to vendors awarded prior RFP numbers), mandatory pre-proposal meetings, Davis-Bacon prevailing wage compliance, and 68-line-item pricing matrices covering labor, equipment rental, drilling services, wireline work, and site restoration. Issuing bodies are primarily state oil-and-gas or environmental departments (Michigan EGLE) and county authorities; recent opportunities show isolated activity by Florida counties (Sarasota, Seminole) and Mississippi's Oil and Gas Board for well abandonment and pump station maintenance—work that differs materially from the expandable-pipe completion-services scope the code nominally describes.

The code shows concentrated recent activity in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, with secondary clusters in Mississippi (three bid solicitations for orphan wells in early-to-mid 2026) and scattered work in Florida counties. Geographic spread is narrow: Michigan dominated July 2026 procurements; Mississippi Oil and Gas Board issued multiple IFBs for orphaned-well remediation (responses due April–May 2026); and Florida county utilities (Sarasota, Seminole, Hillsborough) and Texas rail and water agencies posted well-related work (maintenance, testing, repair) that overlaps only tangentially with plugging services. Representative recent solicitations include the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's Orphan Well New Haven Sec 3 (3) Wells (DS 260000000032, direct solicitation, due July 21, 2026), the Orphan Well New Haven Energy Sec 4 – 14 Wells (DS 260000000033, due July 21, 2026), and the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board's orphan-well plugging IFB (3160007881, due April 13, 2026). None of the recent opportunities cite a dollar value; all require firm pricing, technical capability scoring, and performance bonds. The code carries low transaction velocity: only two state-level repeat buyers (Michigan EGLE and Mississippi OGB) appear across the dataset, and most work is geographically dispersed among county and municipal utilities pursuing tangential maintenance and testing rather than core well-completion or expandable-pipe services.