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. Additionality.

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Drillers

MARCH 31, 2021

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). As the situation is now, it will not be economically sustainable for operators to perform P&A operations conventionally.

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Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

Not only does this preserve the industrys license to operate, it will likely result in a better regulatory climate. How Abandoned Wells Hurt the Oil and Gas Industrys Image One of the most visible and negative images involves plugged wells that are leaking and flowing. The RRCs W3 form was last updated in the early 1980s.

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