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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Energy Central

JULY 30, 2024

Although I will not abandon the latter posts in the immediate future, with this paper, I am adding a periodic catchall. On a few of my categories of posts, I post a periodic paper with a few major catchall subjects that are consistent from post to post. With EVs I have had a different subject for each post. There are two reasons for this:

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Energy Central

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar renewable energy is undergoing rapid advancements from thin-film solar to solar windows, turning brownfield sites into brightfields, converting abandoned golf courses into solar farms, microwaving solar power from space, and more.

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Energy Central

MARCH 1, 2023

” WASHINGTON POST Most read… China predicts new arms race Japan abandons its old strategy of pacifism Japan has announced a. Quote of the day… “The rest of the world’s rajahs are saying coal must stop,” said Pradhan. “But we are the rajah of our own country.”

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

When a January cold snap kept highs across Colorado in the teens, Coloradans were grateful for natural gas to keep their homes and businesses warm and well lit. Now the bills for that energy are coming due and Colorado Gov.

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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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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A long-abandoned well sits off the shore of the Louisiana coast About a third of these wells are. By Adam Peltz Louisiana has a long history of oil and gas development, with 50,000 wells distributed across the state and along the coast.

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Energy Central

MARCH 24, 2022

And it is even made harder by abandoning the use of nuclear power in the energy mix. It’s a big ask to tell countries with very little access to electricity to accept the same level of responsibility as electricity-rich nations striving to achieve the net-zero emissions target that the United Nations has set for the mid-century.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Pennsylvania is set to get an influx of federal infrastructure money to plug abandoned oil and gas wells. Pennsylvania has a lot of orphan and abandoned wells, due to its long history with the oil and gas industry. Pennsylvania has a lot of orphan and abandoned wells, due to its long history with the oil and gas industry.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Only 31 percent support going all electric and abandoning their gas stoves, furnaces, and other appliances. A recent poll from Yale’s Program on Climate Change Communications shows yet again that Americans want to continue cooking with gas. Their headline.

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