scholarly journals Emissions of coalbed and natural gas methane from abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 2283-2290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Townsend‐Small ◽  
Thomas W. Ferrara ◽  
David R. Lyon ◽  
Anastasia E. Fries ◽  
Brian K. Lamb
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Oil And Gas Wells

scholarly journals A geospatially resolved database of hydraulic fracturing wells for chemical transformation assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 945-955
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Sumner ◽  
Desiree L. Plata
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chemical Transformation ◽  
Physicochemical Parameters ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Chemical Additive ◽  
Industrial Practice ◽  
Oil And Gas Wells ◽  
Transformation Potential

A database to unify physicochemical parameters of oil and gas wells with chemical additive disclosures helps highlight chemical transformation potential across the United States with geospatial specificity, informing improved industrial practice and environmental assessment.

scholarly journals Orphaned oil and gas well stimulus—Maximizing economic and environmental benefits

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Kang ◽  
Adam R. Brandt ◽  
Zhong Zheng ◽  
Jade Boutot ◽  
Chantel Yung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Oil And Gas Wells ◽  
Natural Gas Industry ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
Well Abandonment

Orphaned oil and gas wells are abandoned wells for which the cost of environmental impacts usually falls on governments and the general public. Government agencies responsible for well plugging often face funding shortfalls and many orphaned wells remain unplugged. To address this and support the oil and natural gas industry, federal governments are already spending, or considering spending, billions of dollars to plug orphaned oil and gas wells. Here, we analyze oil and gas data for the United States and Canada and identify policy recommendations that can best address environmental impacts of abandoned and orphaned wells. At least 116,245 wells across 32 states and four Canadian provinces/territories are operated by companies filing for bankruptcy in the first half of 2020, which may be an indication that many wells will be orphaned in the near future. Moreover, there are 4,700,000 historic and active oil and gas wells in the United States and another 790,000 in Canada. Of these, 2,000,000 and 310,000 wells are active in the United States and Canada, respectively. Thus, three of five wells ever drilled in the United States are currently inactive (2,700,000 wells), but only one in three are plugged (1,500,000 wells). Plugging involves isolating zones containing oil, gas, and water and is the main strategy for well abandonment. If the orphaned well stimulus funding comes through, tens of thousands of wells will be plugged within a few years. Well plugging at this scale far exceeds current rates of plugging, and it is important that we work to ensure long-term environmental benefits of well abandonment to water, air, climate, ecosystems, and human health. Minimizing environmental impacts of the millions of abandoned and orphaned wells in the United States, Canada, and abroad will allow for an economically beneficial and environmentally safe transition to a carbon-neutral economy.

Managing Environmental Liability: An Evaluation of Bonding Requirements for Oil and Gas Wells in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 3908-3916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline S. Ho ◽  
Jhih-Shyang Shih ◽  
Lucija A. Muehlenbachs ◽  
Clayton Munnings ◽  
Alan J. Krupnick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gas Wells ◽  
Environmental Liability ◽  
Oil And Gas Wells

Origins of the Texas Railroad Commission's Power to Control Production of Petroleum: Regulatory Strategies in the 1920s

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Childs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
State Commission ◽  
Control Production

The “Railroad Commission of Texas” conjures up visions of oil and gas and power politics and perhaps the question, What does “railroad” have to do with petroleum? The Railroad Commission (RCT) also brings to mind modern America between 1930 and the 1970s, when the Texas agency controlled from 35 to 45 percent of the oil and gas produced in the United States. These images come from cultural myths of the Lone Star State, from Americans' fascination with conspiracies, and, most telling, from the lack of historical analyses of the commission, its staff, and its regulatory strategies. The prevailing views of the commission are unfortunate ones, for they not only neglect the agency's regulation of railroads, natural-gas utilities, and buses and trucks but also skew the understanding of how the state commission came to regulate petroleum in the first place, how it devised policies for doing so, and how it legitimized itself and defended that legitimacy under the weight of the East Texas crisis between 1930 and 1935.

International Pipelines: Canada-United States

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 146-160
Author(s):  
John Bishop Ballem
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Large Diameter ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Demarcation Line ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Pipe Line ◽  
International Boundary

For more than a quarter century, large-diameter pipeline systems have been crossing and recrossing the international boundary between Canada and the United States as though that political demarcation line did not exist. Over the years these pipelines have carried large volumes of Canadian oil and gas to American markets and two of them, Interprovincial Pipe Line Limited in the case of oil, and TransCanada PipeLines Limited in the case of natural gas, have also moved Canadian source oil and gas through the United States to reach markets in eastern Canada.

scholarly journals Learning Curve, Change in Industrial Environment, and Dynamics of Production Activities in Unconventional Energy Resources

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Hyun Kim ◽  
Yong-Gil Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shale Oil ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
The Us ◽  
Exploration And Production ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas

Since 2007, shale oil and gas production in the United States has become a significant portion of the global fossil fuel market. The main cause for the increase in production of shale oil and gas in the US is the adoption of new production technologies, namely, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, the production cost of shale oil and gas in the US is comparably higher than the production cost of conventional oil and gas. In 2014, the crude oil and natural gas price decreased significantly to approximately 40 dollars per barrel, and natural gas prices decreased to 3 dollars per million British thermal unit, and thus the productivity and financial conditions for the exploration and production of shale oil and natural gas for producers in the United States have worsened critically. Therefore, technological innovation has become one of the most interesting issues of the energy industry. The present study analyzes the trends in technological innovation having a relationship with production activities. This study calculates the learning rate of 30 companies from the petroleum exploration and production industry in the United States using an improved learning rate calculation formula that reflects the changes in the oil production ratio. Thus, more statistically confident calculation results and interpretations of strategic production activities with regard to changes in the industrial environment were achieved in this study.

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