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Yamaha Confirms 2022 EMX125 & EMX250 Line Up News. Inspiration Friday: Colorado Motorcycle Expo 2022 Events. Well Done is 100% supported through donations and partnerships, Shuck said. “Some say it’s not necessarily our responsibility, but it’s nice to see some companies have a level of social responsibility,” Shuck said. Shuck said the company is partnering with people and businesses such as oil companies to finance the project. Well Done says on its website that capping a dozen wells eliminates the carbon dioxide equivalent of 108,740 passenger cars over 10 years, 56.2 million gallons of gas burned, or 99,000 homes’ energy use for a year. They say that is equal to 798 million gallons of gasoline used, 1.54 million passenger vehicles for a year, or 7.85 billion pounds of coal burned. That includes 31 states, emitting 7.2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year. Shuck wants to come and plug a few on his own, we don’t have a problem,” he said.Īccording to the Well Done Foundation website, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are 2.5 million unplugged abandoned wells in the United States. Olson, like Halvorson, said the state has had such a program for 40 years financed through a resource indemnity trust fund and the association supports those efforts. Halvorson estimates there are about 200 orphaned wells in Montana, noting the problem is not as big here as it is in some eastern states.Īlan Olson, executive director of the Montana Petroleum Association, said the organization is always appreciative of people plugging orphaned wells. “What he has done has been real helpful to us,” said Jim Halvorson, administrator for the Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation, which he said already had an orphaned well plugging program. Shuck, 59, said the Well Done Foundation is starting projects in Pennsylvania, and has organized in Ohio, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and California. “Quickly those numbers add up in terms of impact,” he said. Shuck said he learned of the impact the wells have on climate change, especially in terms of methane gas, which he said is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The first well was plugged on April 22 - Earth Day - in 2020. Well Done has plugged 14 holes so far, contracting with oil riggers and others to do the work. He said abandoned wells force farmers to dodge piles of oilfield trash left behind that have become wards of the state. He said the farmer told him the mineral rights are stronger and the oil companies can come in and do what they want, leaving him “holding the bag.” In talking with that Toole County farmer in 2019, he learned the farmer owned the surface rights, but not the mineral rights. He said the organization is “making an impact in Montana and across the U.S., one well at a time.” “Every well is a victory and milestone,” he told the Independent Record newspaper in Helena. Shuck started the Well Done Foundation, a nonprofit group that caps wells across the nation. Currently, it has identified 800 other abandoned locations that could be addressed. The board’s website states that it has spent more than $135 million over the past 27 years to remediate more than 18,000 locations. He learned it’s a huge problem, not only in Montana, but in other parts of the country as well.Īccording to the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board (OERB), people and companies involved in the energy industry in Oklahoma have voluntarily invested millions of dollars to clean up orphaned and abandoned well sites left by companies that no longer exist. 
Shuck said he could not get the image out of his mind and felt it was incumbent upon him to do something about it. He recalls feeling amazed, embarrassed and appalled all at the same time. “I just thought this was everybody’s dirty little secret.” “I had no idea that this was even a thing,” he said, noting he had more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas business. Shuck, who was no stranger to oilfields, said he was there that day discussing grain with a farmer when they came across a well that had been abandoned. (AP) - Curtis Shuck remembers a rush of emotions a few years ago when he came across his first “orphaned well” while walking through a field in the Kevin-Sunburst Oilfield. Shuck started the foundation to raise money and cap abandoned oil wells to prevent them from continuing to release methane gas into the atmosphere. Curt Shuck of the Well Done Foundation stands near an oil well capping project in Toole County, Mont.
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