Plugging Orphan O&G Wells May Economically Hurt WV Counties

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019

MDN previously reported on efforts in both Ohio and Pennsylvania to plug orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells (all of them conventional/vertical wells), which present a health and safety issue. It's all too easy to hit one of these old wells when drilling a new horizontal shale well. In WV, a new effort to plug old wells is causing concern for some--that the effort to plug old wells may inflict economic damage on WV counties. Huh?!

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