Ohio has Money, Needs Contractors to Plug Orphan Wells

It's time to help the orphans in Ohio--orphan wells, that is. Ohio has some 1,000 orphaned/abandoned oil and gas wells. In early 2018 Ohio passed a new law making more funds available to plug orphaned wells--important because drilling a horizontal shale well through an old conventional/orphaned well can result in a disaster. Although Ohio now has plenty of money to plug their orphaned wells, there's a shortage of contractors to do the work.

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