Decommissioning the nation's entire inventory of onshore unplugged wells would cost $271 billion.

Estimated decommissioning costs for onshore unplugged wells by state, in billions

ORVI analysis of well and plugging cost data from US DOI (2022), US EIA (2023), IOGCC (2024), EQT 2023 10-K, Range Resources 2023 10-K, TCF Upstream and Williams et al. (2021).
Decommissioning costs for 3.2 million unplugged wells in 36 states (171,432 horizontal wells, 3,065,136 abandoned wells, and 745,484 conventional wells) . Horizontal P&A @$261,000 per well.
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