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27,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in Gulf of Mexico Ignored by Government, Industry
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An older nearshore wellhead is shown off the coast of California in this undated photo. In state waters, California has resealed scores of its abandoned wells since the 1980s, but in federal waters, the official policy is out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Neither industry nor government checks for leaks at the more than 27,000 oil and gas wells abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico since the late 1940s. Abandoned wells are known sometimes to fail both on land and offshore. It happens so often that a technical term has been coined for the repair job: "re-abandonment." Photo: California State Lands Commission / The Associated Press
nola.com - Associated Press - July 7, 2010
More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one -- not industry, not government -- is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.
The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing.
The AP investigation uncovered particular concern with 3,500 of the neglected wells -- those characterized in federal government records as "temporarily abandoned."
ALSO SEE RELATED ARTICLE HERE - AP - Abandoned Wells - The Gulf's Unprotected Wells
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Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in Gulf of Mexico - Ignored
Supporting documentation for the article above is provided within the links below . . .
U.S. Energy Mapping System
http://www.eia.gov/state/maps.cfm
Offshore - Posters and Maps
http://www.offshore-mag.com/maps-posters.html
Offshore - Posters and Maps - 2016 The Gulf of Mexico
http://www.offshore-mag.com/content/dam/offshore/print-articles/volume-76/01/1601OFFGoM_1.pdf
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management - Oil and Gas Energy Programs - GOMR Geographic Information System (GIS) Data and Maps
http://www.boem.gov/GOMR-GIS-Data-and-Maps/
Offshore - June 6, 2016 - US offshore rig count falls to 21
http://www.offshore-mag.com/articles/2016/06/us-offshore-drilling-rig-count-falls.html
Texas facing massive well cleanup costs after oil bust
dallasnews.com - by Chris Siron - The Associated Press - by Paul J. Weber - June 19, 2016
The worst oil bust since the 1980s is putting Texas and other oil producing states on the hook for thousands of newly abandoned drilling sites at a time when they have little money to plug wells and seal off environmental hazards.
In Texas alone, the roughly $165 million price tag of plugging nearly 10,000 abandoned wells is double the entire budget of the agency that regulates the industry.
The state's regulators want taxpayers to cover more of the clean-up, supplementing industry payments.
As U.S. rig counts plunge to historic lows, and with at least 60 oil producers declaring bankruptcy since 2014, energy-producing states are confronting holes in their budgets and potentially leaking ones in the ground.
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