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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.
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."
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."
Oklahoma’s orphan well epidemic Not everyone sees it that way. Don Scott has worked his farm in south-central Oklahoma for years, harvesting hay while carefully avoiding an orphan well that ...
UMWACC's Gas Well Capping Technician program — the first-ever registered apprenticeship program for UMWA — provides workers with the knowledge to plug abandoned and orphaned wells that have ...
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. Funds to plug abandoned oil wells headed to to New Mexico via Biden's ...
Craig Delano Melvin [1] (born May 20, 1979) is an American broadcast journalist and anchor at NBC News and MSNBC.From August 2018 until January 2025, he was a news anchor on NBC's Today, in October 2018, a co-host of Today Third Hour before being made permanent host in January 2019, and in January 2025, he became a co-anchor for the first and second hours of Today.