The U.S. Has a Very Big Abandoned Oil Well Problem ...Middle East

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On Thursday, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing to address an issue that’s been plaguing communities from West Virginia to New Mexico for decades: abandoned and orphaned gas and oil wells. While the terminology varies state to state, to keep things simple, an abandoned well is one that is no longer operational but is still owned by a functioning company; an orphaned well is one whose owner has since disappeared, often due to bankruptcy, transferring the responsibility for the well to the state government.American energy corporations have spent the past century drilling wells wherever they believe gas or oil to be located. It was, and still is, a numbers gam

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