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Filling the Hole

Filling the Hole

by Dwayne Purvis and Ted Boettner | May 6, 2025 | Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Reports

Part I: The Problem Part II: The Solution Plateauing Appalachian gas production underscores the need for transformational policy reform to ensure the oil and gas industry, rather than the public, pays for the growing cost of decommissioning the region’s hundreds of...

Damage Control: Federal Funding to Plug Orphaned Wells—And Create Good-Paying Jobs—Is In Jeopardy

by Ted Boettner | Feb 13, 2025 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells

Orphaned well funding—and jobs—are in...
Abandoned Wells Could Wreak Havoc for Carbon Storage in West Virginia

Abandoned Wells Could Wreak Havoc for Carbon Storage in West Virginia

by Ted Boettner | Jan 30, 2025 | Hydrogen & Carbon Capture, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Reports

Download research brief   West Virginia’s prospective underground carbon storage formations are overlaid by tens of thousands of abandoned and improperly plugged wells—and potentially hundreds of thousands of additional undocumented wells—through which injected...
Filling the Hole: A Federal Solution to Cleaning Up America’s Orphaned and Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells

Filling the Hole: A Federal Solution to Cleaning Up America’s Orphaned and Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells

by Ted Boettner | Nov 8, 2024 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells

On October 23, 2024, Senior Researcher Ted Boettner presented at the 2nd Annual Orphan & Idle Wells Texas Conference on the need for a federal solution to clean up America’s orphaned and abandoned wells. His presentation is summarized below. An upcoming report...
Addressing Pennsylvania’s Orphaned Well Crisis

Addressing Pennsylvania’s Orphaned Well Crisis

by Ted Boettner | Mar 25, 2024 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells

Pennsylvania, like several other oil and gas producing states, has a broken system when it comes to preventing orphaned and abandoned wells. Its inadequate bonding and regulatory systems incentivize the indefinite delay of plugging responsibilities and the orphaning...
Addressing Methane Emissions in Appalachia

Addressing Methane Emissions in Appalachia

by Gregory Cumpton and Ted Boettner | Feb 28, 2024 | Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Reports

Download report Download toolkit Download state fact sheets   Current efforts to target methane emissions in the oil and gas industry for reduction stem from two underlying facts: excess atmospheric methane plays several particularly egregious roles in the...
Getting Unions Connected to Orphaned Well Clean Up: A Second Bite at the Apple

Getting Unions Connected to Orphaned Well Clean Up: A Second Bite at the Apple

by Ted Boettner | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells

  Last month, the Department of Interior (DOI) released its  application guidance for Phase 1 state formula grants for orphaned well clean up under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The formula grants are one of three grant programs included in the...
Appalachia is Likely the Largest Source of Methane Emissions in the US

Appalachia is Likely the Largest Source of Methane Emissions in the US

by Eric de Place and Julia Stone | Aug 17, 2023 | Abandoned Mine Lands, Natural Gas, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage

  If it were its own country, Appalachia would be the third-largest producer of natural gas in the world, behind only Russia and the rest of the United States. And, as new measurements reveal, Appalachia is likely the source of more system-wide fossil fuel...
ORVI in Southeastern Louisiana to Learn about a True Transition for Oil & Gas Workers

ORVI in Southeastern Louisiana to Learn about a True Transition for Oil & Gas Workers

by Ted Boettner | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy

During the third week in March, I had the opportunity to travel to southeastern Louisiana to take part in several events sponsored by True Transition, a new group working to build a brighter future for oil and gas workers and communities across the country. For over a...
First Tranche of Federal Orphan Well Funds Out the Door

First Tranche of Federal Orphan Well Funds Out the Door

by Ted Boettner | Jan 17, 2023 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage

  In August of 2022, the US Department of Interior (DOI) announced it awarded 24 states $560 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to plug over 10,000 wells, reclaim well sites, and measure methane emissions. In January of last year, DOI announced...
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