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Orphaned oil wellhead awaiting cleanup in rural area

TECHNOLOGY

4 Feb 2026

Cloud Tools Start to Speed Orphan Well Cleanup Across the U.S.

New cloud platforms are helping states and operators connect methane data, federal funding, and on-the-ground cleanup decisions

Explainable AI dashboard for oil and gas idle well monitoring

INNOVATION

11 Feb 2026

Explainable AI Steps Into Idle Well Oversight

West Virginia officials and energy executives mark launch of $650m private well plugging fund

PARTNERSHIPS

10 Feb 2026

West Virginia Bets on Private Capital to Clean Up Old Wells

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Colorado Finds Gold in Its Abandoned Oil Wells

Oil and gas wellsite with processing equipment and vehicles in open terrain

RESEARCH

27 Mar 2026

Colorado taps Gradient Geothermal to assess orphaned wells for clean energy potential, building a replicable state model

TECHNOLOGY

15 Apr 2026

SLB Goes Norwegian to Solve America's Orphan Well Crisis

SLB buys HydraWell, gaining no-mill PWC technology to cut orphan well plugging costs and timelines across the US

Oil workers in hard hats handling pipe near aged drilling rig in mist

INSIGHTS

13 Apr 2026

Why America's $4.2 Billion Well Fix Isn't Enough

US orphaned well programs are plugging faster, but outdated bonding rules keep adding new wells to the backlog

PARTNERSHIPS

7 Apr 2026

Orphan Wells Have a New Monitor. Now It's for Sale.

A Montana nonprofit partners with Heath to commercialize Well Intel, its field-tested orphan well monitoring platform

Industrial drone carrying survey equipment over open field

TECHNOLOGY

1 Apr 2026

Drones Hunt Down America's Ghost Wells

Atlas is deploying drone magnetometry commercially to locate buried, undocumented orphan wells across the US

RESEARCH

27 Mar 2026

Colorado Finds Gold in Its Abandoned Oil Wells

Colorado taps Gradient Geothermal to assess orphaned wells for clean energy potential, building a replicable state model

Offshore workers in orange safety gear on platform overlooking the sea

PARTNERSHIPS

24 Mar 2026

Deepwater's Dirty Work Just Got a Dream Team

Archer and SLB win a joint P&A contract from Equinor to permanently close three deepwater wells in the Mississippi Canyon

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