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Orphan, orphaned, or abandoned wells are oil or gas wells that have been abandoned by fossil fuel extraction industries. These wells may have been deactivated because had become uneconomic, failure to transfer ownerships (especially at bankruptcy of companies ), or neglect, and thus no longer have legal owners responsible for their care.
Plugging these orphan wells creates good-paying jobs and improves the environment. We are encouraging any qualified well pluggers to apply and help improve the economy and the environment."
The neglected wells have been found to leak cancer-causing chemicals and emit methane, a planet-warming greenhouse gas that’s over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
Since 2020, the state has plugged 665 orphaned wells, (The Center Square) — Louisiana is making significant progress in addressing its long-standing issue of orphaned oil wells, bolstered by ...
State legislatures in the United States have specific definitions based on local needs and priorities. For example, the section on abandoned wells in Texas' Natural Resource Code defines an "inactive well" as "an unplugged well that has had no reported production, disposal, injection, or other permitted activity for a period of greater than 12 months."
The Orphaned Well Prevention Act will prohibit the sale of an oil well unless the new owner can pay to plug and clean it — with the goal of preventing wells from becoming “orphaned.”
The January 2022 Parliamentary Budget Office (PB0) report on the cost of cleaning Canada's orphan oil and gas wells said that, in spite of the 1.7 billion federal money provided during the pandemic, the cost of cleaning up orphan well sites nationally will require funding sources from industry, the provinces, and the federal government. [36]
Records show there were about 1,700 abandoned or orphaned oil and gas wells on state and private land in New Mexico.