What happens to abandoned oil and gas wells in Texas?

Joe Cress, a district director at the Texas Railroad Commission, describes how the agency plugs abandoned oil and gas wells — an effort to ward off pollution when a company walks away after drilling a well. He is standing alongside a state-funded plugging operation in Coryell County. The state is tracking thousands of abandoned wells, and the list is growing. With its revenue dwindling, the agency is asking the legislature for more money to prevent cuts to plugging operations.

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[MalluStyleMultiMedia]

Excellent video.. learning something new everyday. Thanks

[ottomatic]

Fascinating. Oil and gas drilling is a mystery to most of us.
I don't know why Texas can't raise the industry's contribution to the fund instead of making the people pay for it the shortfall. Either way, I hope that sufficient funding to perform this necessary work is provided.

[farkhadhuseinov]

are there any standards for abandoned oil and gas wells?

[Deusmecumest]

If you seal the bore with cement at different depths. How do you get the secondary or tertiary cement plugs to float above the mud? or are they just stacked consecutively?

[GAMEBLURMOMENTS]

In the future can a well be unplugged once its plugged?

[sircampbell]

Why didn't the state get up and making MONEY ?

[xushenxin]

there is no oil? If so, why need to seal it?

[Hendrikhendrik-omys]

what gets into the ground when oil and gas are taken up? what material has the ability to stabilize the subsoil as good as oil and compressed gas nothing can replace Oil and Gas so subsoil worldwide is and will be unstable.

[kennethjohnson]

Perforation is done and then pumped with cement abandonment

[duckco]

wow I've never seen a drill crew sit so much

[saintracheljarodm.holy-kay]

Well if they have been filled there's a new company in Texas that I'd looking for dead wells too use for a kinetic energy generator only the bottom needs To be sealed. Understanding how they is the easy part. It's a very viable solution too create green energy. 2022, 19, 06

[joshualhughes]

Proud rig company right there, even the driller sitting on his azz,

[NicholasVincent-olzk]

Investment fund fix @free partners' hip?

[ishatters]

an operator is just hired but a company lol I bet he didn’t go bankrupt at all unless he is a owner/operator wich is completely different ones hired, one owns the company

[Hendrikhendrik-omys]

Clima! I also think strange things happen with the earth's subsoil. Of course, the inner core of the world is growing because humans have been taking Oil and Gas out of the earth since 1846, and therefore there is room for the inner core to grow, and therefore the heat of the earth is growing from within.

[victoryfirst]

There are tens of thousands of wells that need to be plugged. Wells should be concreted from bottom to top. What the hell is taking you so long.