A study of a limited number of decommissioned oil and gas wells in England found no evidence of methane leaks, including four wells found to be leaking in an earlier study.
In a press release, coauthor Aaron Cahill from Heriot-Watt’s Lyell Center, a partnership between Heriot-Watt and the British Geological Survey, said the findings, published in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, should be “reassuring” to the public and regulators.
News article on 29 June 2022 by Pam Boschee from jpt.spe.org
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