14,000 Oil And Gas Wells Remain Unplugged In the Gulf of Mexico

09 May 2023 | Abstracted from New Scientist

"collected data from the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement on the 82,000 wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. While most of the wells have been plugged and abandoned, they found that more than 14,000 are unplugged, despite having been inactive for at least five years..."

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