Primary Convener:
Margaret Coleman, Environmental Defense Fund

Convener:
Nicholas Gianoutsos, U.S. Geological Survey
Greg Lackey, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh

Early Career Convener:
Sina Saneiyan, Binghamton University

Chair:
Margaret Coleman, Environmental Defense Fund
Sina Saneiyan, Binghamton University

As part of the energy transition, abandoned and low-producing oil and gas wells need to be permanently plugged or repurposed for novel subsurface energy and storage operations. Federal legislation set aside more than $6 billion in recent years with additional funding from states, carbon credit markets, and non-government organizations. There is a pressing need to characterize potential environmental impacts of active and abandoned wells, locate undocumented legacy orphaned wells, and understand the factors that contribute to oil and gas well leakage. For this session, we invite submissions that focus on these issues including field studies (e.g., air quality monitoring, flux measurements, gas and water geochemical sampling, aerial surveys, mobile surveys, and geophysics), laboratory analyses, modeling studies, risk assessments, economic analysis, database analyses including using historical, commercial, or public databases and documents, and policy analysis. This session examines the vast problem of legacy oil and gas wells, and explores the solutions.

Index Terms
0432 Contaminant and organic biogeochemistry
0933 Remote sensing
1831 Groundwater quality
1871 Surface water quality

Cross-Listed:
SY - Science and Society
NS - Near Surface Geophysics
GH - GeoHealth
H - Hydrology

Co-Sponsored Sessions:
SEG： Society of Exploration Geophysicists
GSA： Geological Society of America

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering