Practices and Standards for Plugging Orphaned and Abandoned Hydrocarbon Wells: Proceedings of a Workshop (2025)
Chapter: Appendix A: Workshop Statement of Task
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Workshop Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Practices and Standards for Plugging Orphaned and Abandoned Hydrocarbon Wells: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/28035.
Appendix A
Workshop Statement of Task
The National Academies will convene a workshop for DOI’s Orphaned Wells Program Office to discuss existing practices and standards for plugging orphaned and abandoned hydrocarbon wells and will include discussion of:
- Historic and current well-plugging standards and design and operational practices used in the United States;
- How these standards and practices may differ based on factors such as well age, well depth, well location, material specification (e.g., casing, line, screening), geologic and geophysical environment, production type, distance to populated areas, and remediation and restoration requirements;
- Consideration of cost, technology, or other factors that impact the development of well-plugging plans; and
- Environmental benefits to well-plugging and/or mitigation of adverse environmental impacts from well-plugging (e.g., methane leakage mitigation, groundwater and surface water protection, surface reclamation, landscape/seascape degradation or restoration, and protection of animal and bird migration corridors).
The workshop will include perspectives from the federal government, states, tribes, industry, and other stakeholders. The workshop will include a written proceedings.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Workshop Statement of Task." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Practices and Standards for Plugging Orphaned and Abandoned Hydrocarbon Wells: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/28035.
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