Videos

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	Webinar Penn State Extension is working on a program to get more wells into the DEP database by having landowners report abandoned wells on their property to DEP for future plugging. Penn State Extension Service is planning future in person public meetings to further explain the program.
	Who Will Clean Up America's Abandoned Oil Wells- Financial Times Energy The Financial Times looks at some of the issues involved in cleaning up abandoned wells in PA.
	PA Conventional Orphan Well Plugging Stimulus.
	Historical Oil and Gas Wells in PA (DEP Video)
	This Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Comission (IOGCC) webinar video involves discussion of new and emerging technologies for using remote sensing to locate abandoned Oil and Gas wells.
	Pennsylvania family says gas drilling turning paradise home into nightmare.
	NBC Nightly News discussing exploding homes due to abandoned wells leaking methane gas.
$Old wells blowsout fracking fluid during fracking of new well$	Professor Tony Ingraffia discusses the problem of unplugged Abandoned wells in areas where new drilling and fracking are occurring. The fracking process can cause fracking fluids to leak from abandoned oil and gas wells in the vicinity.
	Save Our Streams PA is working at raising awareness about the health, safety and environmental issues associated with abandoned oil and gas wells. Additionally their program promotes the plugging of abandoned wells. Save Our Streams PA is now on Facebook
	A video about the Ohio orphan well program
	A video about the problem of methane gas released from abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania.
	Decomissioning Water Wells. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) avalible throug county Conservation Districts to plug abandoned water wells. The plugging process is almost the same for oil and gas wells. The exception is that several cement plugs are placed in an oil well to seperate oil, gas and coal layers from the water layer closer to the surface.
	A look back at the history of the oil industry from the perspective of the region where it began.
	An abandoned well leaking methane (natural gas)
	This video from Save Our Streams PA has a history of the oil industry and drilling and plugging law in PA. It also has info on what abandoned wells look like and how to find them. Save Our Streams PA is now on Facebook and no longer operates a website.