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

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

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

Drilling rig and mobile well remediation unit at oil well site

TECHNOLOGY

18 Mar 2026

Sealing Wells With Science Instead of Cement

A biomineralization fix is helping states plug orphan wells faster by stopping stubborn gas leaks that drive costly rework

U.S. Geological Survey research facility sign

RESEARCH

13 Mar 2026

A Leaky Mystery Beneath Montana’s Orphan Wells

USGS monitoring shows methane from orphaned wells can shift fourfold within hours, complicating federal efforts to rank which sites to plu...

BC Energy Regulator office building exterior

INVESTMENT

9 Mar 2026

How B.C. Is Tackling Its Orphan Well Backlog

B.C.’s energy regulator ramps up a major orphan well cleanup, backed by a $24 million industry levy and hundreds of restoration projects

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