Texas will begin to plug about 800 of its 7,400 documented abandoned oil and gas wells this fall with a $25 million grant in President Biden’s infrastructure plan. Abandoned oil and gas wells can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and toxic chemicals.
The first grant of $25 million to Texas is part of an initial award of $560 million in 24 states. There are more than 10,000 high-priority well sites ready for remediation, according to the department’s estimates based on state applications., the commission said the federal dollars would accelerate the state’s existing program to plug and clean up the abandoned oil and gas wells. In the current fiscal year, the state exceeded its goal to plug 1,000 wells in June.
Texas will start to plug wells with the initial $25 million grant on Sept. 1, according to the commission. “We will use our established success with workplans, staff expertise and contracting processes to use the grant funding to plug abandoned wells,” Clay Woodul, the commission’s assistant director of the oil and gas division for field operations, said in a statement., happening Sept. 22-24 in Austin.
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