“Our fiscal year goes from April 1 to March 31,so we’re only half


way through our year,”said OWA executive director Lars De Pauw. “The bulk of our field activity actually starts at this time of year after the crops are off, so things are just starting to ramp up for this fiscal.” In the upstream oil and gas industry,an orphan is a well, pipeline,


facility or associated site which has been investigated and confirmed as not having any legally responsible and/or financially able party to deal with its abandonment and reclamation responsibilities.The man- date of the OWA is to safely decommission orphan oil and gas wells, pipelines and production facilities, and restore the land as close to its original state as possible. As of August 26, 2019,the OWA has an inventory of 3,370 orphan


wells for abandonment (28 for suspension), 260 orphan facilities for decommissioning (eight for suspension), 3,509 orphan pipeline seg- ments for abandonment (10 for suspension), 2,518 orphan sites for reclamation,and 835 reclaimed sites. “We have completed 45 remediation and 176 surface reclamation


projects this fiscal,”continued De Pauw.“We’ve also decommissioned 306 wells (abandonment),of which 105 have been cut and capped.” The AER first investigates possible orphans for responsible parties


before designating individual properties (wells, pipelines, facilities or sites) as orphans. Since its formation in 2002,the OWA has successful- ly decommissioned approximately 2,200 orphan wells, with over 800 sites reclaimed.


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