There are over 50,000 abandoned well sites in Alberta, no longer in production, that need to be restored and cleaned up according to 2014 numbers provided by Alberta Environment and Parks.

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.

Over 400,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled across Alberta. 16x9 mapped out all the wells using data from the Alberta Energy Regulator.

The relationship between landowner and oil company is an old one. But what happens when an oil company goes bankrupt?