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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Ted Boettner and Kathy Hipple | Jan 12, 2023 | Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Reports
Download report Earlier this year, we published Diversified Energy: A Business Model Built to Fail Appalachia, which questioned the company’s ability to pay for decommissioning its inventory of over 60,000 wells in Appalachia. Since that time, Diversified...
by Ted Boettner, Kathy Hipple, and Anthony Ingraffea | Apr 12, 2022 | Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Reports
Download report Download appendices Download summary Download digital toolkit Diversified Energy, the nation’s largest owner of oil and gas wells, does not have enough funds to plug its entire inventory of assets, research from the Ohio River Valley...
by Ted Boettner | Mar 30, 2022 | Blog Posts, Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells, Repairing the Damage, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy
Earlier this month, we provided an explainer of the $4.7 billion federal orphaned well program that was included in the federal infrastructure legislation (the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021) and what that meant for states in the Ohio River Valley. To...
