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Improving Plugging and Abandonment Procedures

Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

This budget and effort should be leveraged to explore regulation and other improvements. However, a shut-in or temporarily abandoned well will only degrade with time due to the downhole fluid exposure. It would allow the RRC to foster a new generation of best practices that can then be followed by the industry.