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Borehole Battery: A Promising Solution for Energy Storage

POWER Magazine

These wells are often abandoned once […] The post Borehole Battery: A Promising Solution for Energy Storage appeared first on POWER Magazine. For more than a century, fossil fuel companies have drilled oil and gas wells to increase the production, consumption, and export of fossil fuels.

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Basic Energy Services v. PPC Energy LLP – Another Case on Injection Wells in the Delaware Mountain Group

Oil and Gas Lawyer

The disposed water from these wells has also migrated to long-abandoned wells causing gushers of produced waters from the abandoned wells. In Basic Energy Services v. PPC Energy , No. 08-23-00218-CV in the El Paso Court of Appeals, PPC Energy operated several marginal wells producing from the Delaware Mountain Group.

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Operators May Earn and Sell Carbon Credits for the P&A of Inactive, Shut-in, or Temporarily Abandoned Wells

The Energy Law

Operators may now have the potential to sell carbon credits in exchange for the P&A of inactive, shut-in, or temporarily abandoned wells. The EPA estimates that there are over 3 million known abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells (AOOG wells) in the United States. Well Eligibility. Additionality.

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Abandoned Mine Shafts Can Use Gravity to Turn Them Into Giant Batteries

Energy Central

A novel use of abandoned coal mines is to turn their vertical mineshafts into sources of kinetic energy to power Underground Gravity Energy Storage batteries.

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Federal Agency Recommends Updated Regulations for Pipeline Monitoring, Decommissioning, and Abandonment

The Energy Law

The Report concluded that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) lacks a robust oversight process (1) for ensuring the integrity of active offshore oil and gas pipelines and (2) to address the environmental risks posed by decommissioning and abandoning pipelines on the seafloor.

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Energy and Technological Progress: Bridging the Gap. P11.

Energy Central

Renewable Rush: Speed Blinding Stability (Part 10 of article series: Energy and Technological Progress: Bridging the Gap.) Have we been too hasty in abandoning traditional energy sources for renewables and green energy? The answer lies in a nuanced assessment of our.

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All or Nothing: Regulators Strictly Define Pipeline Abandonment

The Energy Law

This clarification comes after a number of leaks in 2014 and 2015 from pipelines that were believed to be “abandoned.” In two incidents, the current owners or operators of the pipelines had purchased the pipelines from previous owners or operators with the understanding that the pipelines had been properly abandoned before purchase.