OilPrice

MARCH 24, 2025

AI is either the greatest human invention ever, so powerful it will catapult us into an age of abundance for all and solve our environmental problems as well OR it is the most momentous human invention ever which is so dangerous that it could wipe out human civilization (and therefore must be tightly controlled or abandoned altogether).

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POWER Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

These wells are often abandoned once […] The post Borehole Battery: A Promising Solution for Energy Storage appeared first on POWER Magazine. For more than a century, fossil fuel companies have drilled oil and gas wells to increase the production, consumption, and export of fossil fuels.

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OilPrice

APRIL 18, 2025

The United States will abandon efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace agreement if progress isnt made very soon and unless clear signs emerge that a deal can be reached, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday. We're not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end.

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BOE Report

JUNE 18, 2025

LLOYDMINSTER – The premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan are repeating their calls for federal support for energy projects and the abandonment of some industry regulations.

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Rigzone

JUNE 21, 2025

The EU proposed lowering the cap to $45 per barrel from the current $60, but oil's surge following Israel's attack on Iran has complicated efforts to find unanimity among the bloc's 27 members.

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Marcellus Drilling News

MAY 16, 2025

West Virginia has more than 21,000 abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells. Plugging them to prevent environmental problems is a thorny issue, as it is in other states like Pennsylvania and Ohio (and Texas, and Oklahoma, etc.). Regulatory hurdles make it expensive. A WV bill not previously on our radar made its way through.

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Offshore Engineer

JUNE 11, 2025

Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has secured a contract from Equinor to provide its plug and abandonment (P&A) services in the Oseberg East field on Norway’s continental shelf…

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The Energy Law

JUNE 21, 2022

Operators may now have the potential to sell carbon credits in exchange for the P&A of inactive, shut-in, or temporarily abandoned wells. The EPA estimates that there are over 3 million known abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells (AOOG wells) in the United States. Well Eligibility. Additionality.

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OilPrice

MAY 16, 2025

Its made additional territorial gains recently and continues to demand NATO abandon Ukraine. The Kremlin team is led by aide Vladimir Medinsky and Kyivs team is led by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. Moscow continues to harden its position. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, present in Istanbul, appears doubtful of any progress without

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BOE Report

MARCH 18, 2025

CALGARY – Alberta’s energy minister says the government will never use public tax dollars to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells. Brian Jean says it will never be an option, despite a newly leaked government-funded report listing recommendations for how Alberta should reclaim its nearly 80,000 inactive wells.

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Mees

JULY 4, 2025

A UK decision to abandon Xlinks’ ambitious plans for a 3,800km, 3.6GW HVDC power link with Morocco has left the company searching an alternative market.

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Drillers

MARCH 31, 2021

There is a significant focus on plug and abandonment decommissioning in today’s workscopes. I thought it would be pertinent to write something on the plug and abandonment (P&A) of subsea assets utilizing a Light Well Intervention Vessel (LWIV). In abandonment, no two wells will be the same. Reservoir abandonment 2.

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OilPrice

APRIL 29, 2025

Azerbaijani media outlets are characterizing a recent visit to Baku by the EUs top foreign policy official as a landmark event during which Brussels demonstrated a desire to abandon previous stereotypes and recognize Azerbaijan as a key partner.

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Marcellus Drilling News

MAY 13, 2025

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: PA DEP issues RFP for abandoned O&G well plugging services; OTHER U.S.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The methane that is quietly oozing from abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States is invisible and odorlessyet it has the ability to wreak havoc on the climate in a major way. billion to 26 states in order to plug leaky abandoned extraction sites of the oil and gas industries. The total well cleanup sum of $4.7

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The Energy Law

APRIL 21, 2021

The Report concluded that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) lacks a robust oversight process (1) for ensuring the integrity of active offshore oil and gas pipelines and (2) to address the environmental risks posed by decommissioning and abandoning pipelines on the seafloor.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A novel use of abandoned coal mines is to turn their vertical mineshafts into sources of kinetic energy to power Underground Gravity Energy Storage batteries.

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Oil and Gas Lawyer

MARCH 10, 2025

The disposed water from these wells has also migrated to long-abandoned wells causing gushers of produced waters from the abandoned wells. These disposal wells have caused water to migrate to producing wells in the Delaware Mountain Group, killing those wells. In Basic Energy Services v. PPC Energy , No.

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McKinsey

AUGUST 6, 2019

Our research shows that many large mergers and acquisitions are abandoned before closing because of value-creation, regulatory, and political issues. Here’s how to improve the odds of success.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 18, 2016

This clarification comes after a number of leaks in 2014 and 2015 from pipelines that were believed to be “abandoned.” In two incidents, the current owners or operators of the pipelines had purchased the pipelines from previous owners or operators with the understanding that the pipelines had been properly abandoned before purchase.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 27, 2007

By Joe Giarrusso: In Louisiana, a lawsuit is generally deemed abandoned when the parties fail to take any step in its prosecution for three years. This rule is operative without any formal order.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 21, 2021

The Report concluded that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) lacks a robust oversight process (1) for ensuring the integrity of active offshore oil and gas pipelines and (2) to address the environmental risks posed by decommissioning and abandoning pipelines on the seafloor.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million in federal infrastructure money to clean up abandoned oil wells as part of an initial $1.15 Estimates vary about the number of abandoned wells in the state. New Mexico will receive $43.7 billion in funding for the nationwide effort to remove these sources of air and groundwater pollution.

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Offshore Engineer

MAY 7, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling has moved its 1990-built semi-submersible rig to Caledonia field in the North Sea ahead of upcoming permanent plug and abandonment (P&A) operation

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This didn’t start out as a three part series. Finding Rare Earth and other critical elements is serious. We need these constituents for modern devices required to mitigate climate change, like electric vehicles (EVs) and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The federal government is sending Louisiana 111-million dollars to plug and restore abandoned oil and gas wells. The state Department of Natural Resources estimates there are 46-hundred abandoned wells in Louisiana and cleanup is likely to cost 400-million dollars. Jeff Palermo, Louisiana Radio Network

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Vorys Energy

JUNE 10, 2024

Miller , 2024-Ohio-2133, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals held that the appellant, Cardinal Minerals, a mineral buyer, lacked standing to bring a lawsuit contesting the validity of an abandonment under the Dormant Mineral Act (DMA).

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

UK Firm Pioneers Offshore CCS & Hydrogen Storage with Innovative Well Technology Key Points: A UK firm introduces a groundbreaking well re-entry and re-abandonment tool for offshore CCS and hydrogen storage. This tool enables the re-utilization of existing offshore wells for carbon capture and hydrogen storage projects.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Department of Interior will provide Kentucky with nearly $104 million to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells, U.S. FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) KT) The U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Wednesday.

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McKinsey

MAY 8, 2017

Being told to abandon old ways of thinking and working and embrace without delay a new, and seemingly riskier, digital culture can be unnerving for insurance companies. But there are certain actions insurers can take to kick-start change while minimizing the risks—and they do not have to alter everything at the same pace.

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Oil & Gas 360º

APRIL 17, 2025

In a bid to regain investor confidence, Auchincloss, who was finance chief under Looney, in February announced BP would completely abandon the plan and renew its focus on oil and gas. A few months later BP started backtracking. The company pursued too much while looking to build new low carbon businesses.

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BOE Report

MARCH 19, 2025

EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says plans for cleaning up abandoned or inactive oil wells are to be made public in two weeks. She says public funding won’t be needed for the new initiatives, despite a draft government report leaked to media that explicitly says the opposite.

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SmartBrief

JUNE 25, 2025

He abandoned all efforts to fix her weakness and instead focused exclusively on making her forehand even more lethal. When you abandon outdated approaches and embrace this more sophisticated framework, you’ll unlock potential in your leadership team they never knew they possessed. The outcome?

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The Energy Law

JULY 15, 2021

As the number of solar projects continues to grow in Louisiana, a chief concern among Louisiana taxpayers is ensuring that these projects are properly decommissioning upon their abandonment. Solar development is largely in its infancy in Louisiana, with only a handful of projects having been constructed to date.

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Oilfield Technology

MARCH 11, 2025

Latest analysis from Westwood Global Energy Group (Westwood), the specialist energy market research and consultancy firm, reveals the extent of financial and logistical hurdles for North Sea decommissioning.

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Energy Central

MARCH 23, 2025

DOE Loans Holtec $57M to Restart Palisades NextEra Energy Follows Constellation; Files with Regulators to Restart Duane Arnold Santee Cooper Seeks Proposals to Complete Abandoned V C Summer plant Small Modular Reactors Considered for Site of Kewaunee Nuclear Plant Urenco to Supply HALEU Fuel for Westinghouse eVinci Microreactor EDF in Line for State (..)

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Energy Central

JULY 29, 2024

Have we been too hasty in abandoning traditional energy sources for renewables and green energy? Renewable Rush: Speed Blinding Stability (Part 10 of article series: Energy and Technological Progress: Bridging the Gap.) As the world hurtles towards a low-carbon future, it is a need for critical examination of our transition strategy.

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