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Plugging Orphan Wells Underwater: Why Marine Operations Are a Different Beast Entirely

When most people think about orphan oil and gas wells, they picture rusting wellheads hidden in fields, forests, or forgotten corners of rural America. Those land-based wells are indeed a massive environmental challenge, but they are only part of the story. Beneath our rivers, wetlands, bayous, and coastal waters lies another category of orphan wells that presents a far more complex operational problem.
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