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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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. Compared to CO2, methane is a much more potent climate gas. As a result, a higher share of abandoned wells in the U.S.

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Oil and Gas Lawyer

MARCH 10, 2025

The Delaware Mountain Group is a group of formations including the Bell Canyon, Cherry Canyon and Brushy Canyon formations, deposits in ancient canyons filled in over the ages, and are productive of oil and gas. These formations lie above parts of the Wolfcamp formation in the Permian Basin. In Basic Energy Services v. PPC Energy , No.

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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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Oil & Gas 360º

APRIL 17, 2025

CEO Murray Auchincloss and Lund supported previous chief Bernard Looneys 2020 plan to slash BPs oil and gas output by 40% this decade and invest heavily in renewables. A few months later BP started backtracking. The company pursued too much while looking to build new low carbon businesses.

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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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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

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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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. billion in performance grants to dispense to states that show improvement in remediating orphan wells and regulating their oil and gas sectors.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. A long-abandoned well sits off the shore of the Louisiana coast About a third of these wells are.

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Marcellus Shale Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Funded entirely by Pennsylvanias impact tax on natural gas development, the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) is awarding $16 million in grants to fund 148 new projects across the state, Governor Josh Shapiro recently announced. Since 2012, impact fees have provided more than $2.7

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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. Jared Polis has turned on natural gas, calling it “unreliable,” and arguing that the state should invest heavily in intermittent renewable energy.

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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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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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Rigzone

JUNE 10, 2025

“The company will deliver a rigless intervention framework that enables Repsol Resources UK to optimize well construction, production, and intervention to maximize plug and abandonment operations”, Halliburton added. MORE FROM THIS AUTHOR Jov Onsat Editor OIL, GAS & ENERGY NEWS STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX!

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

million to cap more than 5,400 oil and gas wells in Kansas that have been abandoned by owners and threaten water supplies or pose other environmental hazards. The bipartisan federal infrastructure law appropriated $58.6 She said the list of defunct wells included 34 in Johnson County and at least 375 in Miami County.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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

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Marcellus Shale Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Funded entirely by Pennsylvanias impact tax on natural gas development, the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) is awarding $16 million in grants to fund 148 new projects across the state, Governor Josh Shapiro recently announced. Since 2012, impact fees have provided more than $2.7

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Energy Central

JULY 3, 2022

Europe decided to boycott Russian gas. And the consequence has been the search for sources that had already been abandoned or greatly reduced, and that are much more emitting. The rise in prices for gas and oil derivatives has led many countries.

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Valor

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

February 24, 2025 Edition At Valor, our goal is to keep you informed of the latest news and updates from the oil and gas industry. Read m o re US oil and gas rig count hits highest since June, says Baker Hughes Summary : U.S. million bpd in 2025, while gas production is expected to rise to 104.6 GW capacity. Read more U.S.

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Rextag

JANUARY 21, 2025

The oil and gas industry navigates a transformative 2025 period shaped by strategic consolidations, maturing resource plays, and shifting market fundamentals. MMBtu, improving the outlook for natural gas-focused plays. LNG Expansion: New export capacity will bolster activity in gas-centric plays like Haynesville.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 27, 2020

Coupled with the recent decline in oil and gas prices, many operators are left scrambling in an attempt to navigate unprecedented circumstances. For wells that have already been placed on a schedule of abandonment, Conservation already allows operators to delay the plugging of wells for up to a year.

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Rextag

MARCH 3, 2025

Can BP maintain its vision of a low-carbon future while doubling down on oil and gas? BP has announced a shift in its energy strategy, moving away from aggressive renewables investments and increasing its oil and gas production spending. The company aims to boost daily oil and gas production to between 2.3 million and 2.5

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The Energy Law

JUNE 3, 2022

As currently written, the Act allows the project operator to expropriate the rights “necessary or useful” in constructing and operating the storage facility. [1] As currently written, the Act allows the project operator to expropriate the rights “necessary or useful” in constructing and operating the storage facility. [1]

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Governor Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force, charged with making recommendations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions originating in Louisiana, recently took another step towards that goal. This document contains proposed strategies and specific actions across several priority areas to be considered in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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The Energy Law

JANUARY 2, 2013

In August 2012, BSEE promulgated a new final rule entitled “Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations on the Outer Continental Shelf–Increased Safety Measures for Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf,” to tighten safety measures on the OCS. Initially, BOEMRE implemented the recommendations through an interim final rule.

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Underground Vision Technologies

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Orphaned wells are oil or natural gas wells that have been abandoned by companies for one reason or another. Like a straw stuck into a juice box, these wells have been left open, many for decades, and are leaking toxins, like methane gas, into the environment. The infrastructure bill thats been made law has set aside $1.15

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Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

MAY 12, 2025

This report will address some legal issues, a current CCUS project near Odessa, new technology to economically repurpose abandoned wells and formations, and a digital approach to unitizing and managing CCUS data, also with streamlining in mind. That being so, as Jones noted, it frequently has already beenplugged and abandoned.

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Iraq Business News: Oil & Gas

MAY 8, 2025

We addressed the maturity of our bond debt by calling the old bond and issuing a new $100 million bond, thereby increasing available cash and putting in place a capital structure that can provide funding towards delivery on our strategic objectives, regardless of whatever uncertainties may face the business at the macro-economic level.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 4, 2007

The Court will also hear arguments on the applicability of the discovery rule and fraudulent concealment to claims by oil and gas lessors. The Court will also hear arguments on the applicability of the discovery rule and fraudulent concealment to claims by oil and gas lessors. Emerald Oil & Gas v. Exxon Corp., 27, 2005, pet.

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Rextag

APRIL 16, 2025

The discovery comes amid BP's broader pivot away from rapid renewables expansion toward reinforcing its upstream oil and gas portfolio to meet investor expectations and improve financial performance. Under the new plan, BP will now: Increase annual oil and gas investment by 20% to $10 billion. 2 billion annually.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

15, 2008), the Texas Supreme Court again addressed the propriety of class actions for gas royalty claims. The Bowden case involved claims against Phillips Petroleum company in connection with its natural gas marketing through affiliate companies. In Bowden v. Phillips Petroleum Co. , 03-0824 (Feb.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

With topics ranging from offshore oil and gas moratoriums to restrictions on natural gas flaring and venting, the following is an overview of notable energy legislation to be heard in state legislatures this year. Ron Reynolds, make up a two-fold strategy to limit natural gas flaring and venting in the state. [1]

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The Energy Law

APRIL 12, 2022

Sandhill never managed to stop the leak, and it abandoned the well in August 2019. The Lyon Well was leaking in 2018, which prompted the LDNR to task the current operator (Sandhill Production, Inc.) with stopping the leak. The LDNR declared an emergency over the Lyon Well leak and spent money from the Fund on the emergency response.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 30, 2020

The well was a dry hole, however, and was therefore plugged and abandoned on April 21, 2006. At trial, the mineral servitude owner testified that in 2005, the Cotton Valley drilling activity was ramping up and other operators near the servitude successfully drilled gas wells. A well was spud on March 28, 2006. 1] 53,252 (La.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

With topics ranging from offshore oil and gas moratoriums to restrictions on natural gas flaring and venting, the following is an overview of notable energy legislation to be heard in state legislatures this year. Ron Reynolds, make up a two-fold strategy to limit natural gas flaring and venting in the state. [1]

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