Ohio’s Portion of Orphan Well Program $256M in Phase One

Part of the so-called Biden infrastructure bill (now a law) provides $4.7 billion to plug old abandoned and orphan oil and gas wells. We previously reported on initial payments from the program for both Pennsylvania and West Virginia. When we spotted an even higher number for Ohio's portion of that program, we smelled that something is wrong, and indeed it is. We will explain below.

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