Webinar
Penn State Extension Service 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.
PA Oil and Gas GIS Mapping site
Map of Abandoned Wells in Venango County found by Venango PaSEC
Map of Active and Permitted Unconventional Wells
PA DEP - Plugging Pennsylvania’s Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
DEP's Water Well Abandonment Procedure
Perilous Pathways: Danger of Drilling Near Abandoned Wells
Hunting For Pennsylvania's Orphaned and Abandoned Wells
The Dangers of Orphaned Oil Wells
Save Our Streams PA
If you'd like to add an abandoned well to the list send a message to scavengerhuntpa@google.com Subject = "abandoned well"
Save Our Streams PA map showing abandoned oil and gas wells.
Frac Tracker: Problem with Abandoned and Orphan Wells
Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells Threaten Drinking Water, Homes Across U.S.
Magnetic Surveys for Locating Abandoned Wells
Efforts under way to find abandoned Pa. gas, oil wells (2016)
Oil leaking from well draining into stream.
Oil leaking from well
Erosion around base of well.
Oil leaking into wetland area