Inactive Wells

• Alberta energy company fights regulator over seizure of thousands of wells

  AlphaBow is pushing back over the Alberta Energy Regulator transferring control of more than 6,000 wells, pipeline segments and other facilities to the Orphan Well Association.

  Canada

  Sep 28, 2023
  
• Big oil companies eligible for millions from federal coronavirus bailout to clean up sites

  There are currently close to 100,000 inactive wells in the province, which are wells that have stopped producing.

  Investigations

  Dec 17, 2020
  
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• Alberta officials warned oilpatch faced ‘landslide’ of failures. Then coronavirus struck

  The provincial regulator warned in April that some companies were walking away from contaminated sites without properly shutting down.

  Investigations

  Dec 16, 2020
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• Alberta aims to speed up orphan well cleanup with $235M loan

  Legislation has been introduced to allow the province to lend $235 million to the Orphan Well Association.

  Canada

  May 18, 2017
• INFOGRAPHIC: Alberta’s inactive, abandoned oil and gas well problem

  16x9 calculated there are approximately 22 million metres of inactive well infrastructure buried in Alberta. That’s nearly enough to stretch all the way to the other side of the Earth and back.

  Oct 29, 2015