Back in 2012 Rick Stewart, then an oil attorney in Houston, led an effort to encourage the General Land Office to do something about abandoned oil platforms. In the byzantine world of Texas regulation, the Railroad Commission is responsible for orphan wells, but the GLO oversees platforms. Ste...
Why old oil wells are a good fit Geological thermal energy storage can take other forms as well—NREL is also working with a company in Texas on a pilot project that will store excess renewable energy in reservoirs that were never used for oil and gas. But oil wells are a particularly go...
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday - as this story was being released - that it has had to deal with leaks at abandoned wells in shallow state waters of Louisiana and Texas. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement - which oversees wel...
Oil fieldsTexasAbandoned wellsData compilationUs doeThe DOE document, DOE/RA133210-01, Abandoned Texas Oil Fields which was released in December 1980 listed 676 abandoned fields that produced 250,000 or more barrels of oil before abandonment. Favorable public response has prompted this new ...
Under the new rules, future wells that drop out of production on active leases also must be sealed within three years. Gene Beck, a petroleum engineer at Texas A&M University who used to work in the petroleum industry, said many companies won't like the Idle Iron program "because it's ...
Texas Moves to Plug Abandoned Offshore Wells.Coghlan, Keely
Two case studies have been performed, investigating one historical gas leak case and one theoretical oil leak case. To be able to evaluate the consequences of leaking wells, the cases are placed in the context of natural hydrocarbon seepages; a well-known, natural phenomenon. 1.1. Natural ...
This is an increasing problem; for example, it has been estimated that the number of abandoned wells in Texas and New Mexico could rise by nearly 200 percent in the coming years. It is also anticipated that clean-up costs will run into the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars...
A new mobile methane emissions inspection approach, Other Test Method (OTM) 33A, was used to quantify short-term emission rates from 210 oil and gas production pads during eight two-week field studies in Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming from... 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Identification and characterizat...
Nine Energy Must Pay Over $486,000 in West Texas Patent Trial (1) Nine Energy Service Inc. owes rival NCS Multistage Inc. over $486,000 for infringing a patent covering a tool used in the drilling of oil and natural gas w... M Bultman - 《Environment & Energy Report》 被引量: 0发...