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Drones Help Identify Dangerous, Hard-to-Locate Unplugged Oil Wells
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of unplugged oil wells, which pose a major
threat to the environment.
Image Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Now, with the help of drones, scientists from the State University of New York at Binghamton University have designed a novel technique to detect these dangerous wells that are difficult to locate.
There are around 35,000 abandoned gas and oil wells in New York State, while there are over 600,000 wells in Pennsylvania, dating back to the initial days of drilling. On the whole, there are around two million abandoned wells in the U.S. And all these wells pose numerous risks.
There are millions of unplugged oil wells in the United States, which pose a serious threat to the environment. Using drones, researchers from Binghamton Univer
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Binghamton University geophysics researchers are at the forefront of a new way to locate these abandoned wells safely using drones, and recently published their findings in the Journal of Applied Geophysics.