The legislation would authorize the U.S. Department of Energy to establish a five-year program to improve the location data it has on abandoned wells — some 350,000 of which are believed to be unaccounted for in Pennsylvania alone. The post U.S. House passes Summer Lee bill to find and deal with abandoned oil and gas wells appeared first on Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
Pennsylvania is home to a staggering number of abandoned wells. The DEP has located about 27,000, but says that's just a portion of the abandoned wells out there.