Oil and gas vets want to clean up the industry’s mess, one well at a time

Oil and gas vets want to clean up the industry’s mess, one well at a time

Posted by on Dec 3, 2020 @ 7:04 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: December 2, 2020

There were more than 50,000 wells on state cleanup lists across the country in 2018, and states estimated there were somewhere between 200,000 to 750,000 more abandoned wells that weren’t in their records. If you include wells that are “idle,” meaning they may still have an owner but haven’t produced any oil or gas in years — and are at risk of getting thrust into state...

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