Watch this video to hear about farmer Bill Suan’s decades-long fight to plug abandoned oil and gas wells on his Lost Creek, West Virginia property.
In the U.S., states have documented the location of nearly 130,000 abandoned oil and gas wells that are "orphans" — wells whose owners went bust, vanished or were never recorded and who walked away without properly sealing the well, a process known as plugging. Many more remain undocumented. Experts estimate there are likely more than 1 million orphans across the country. They exist anywhere that anyone has ever drilled for oil, from urban Los Angeles to suburban Pennsylvania, from Texas oil fields to the woods of upstate New York. Orphan wells been found under schools, near homes, and in gardens. At least 9 million Americans live within a mile of a known orphan well.
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