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Oil Wells Near Me: How to Find Wells Near Your Property

Find the oil and gas wells near your home: see each well's status, operator and history on one map, check for orphan wells, and learn who to call.

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Carbon Markets: Compliance and Voluntary, and Why Prices Differ

Compliance carbon markets price a legal obligation and voluntary ones a claim. RGGI allowances cleared at $37.65 in September 2026, up 69 percent in a year.

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EHS Management Software and What It Cannot Compute

EHS software is a system of record. It handles the documents and dates well, and stores whatever emissions number you give it rather than deriving one.

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Oil Well Locations: Where to Find Them and What They Mean

Oil well locations come from eight state agencies. The published coordinate is the surface point, and the producing end sits 607 to 2,640 m away.

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Permian Basin Oil Fields: Every Well, County and Operator

The Permian Basin holds 389,187 wells on record across West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Counts, counties, operators, and 2024 production, on one map.

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Leak Detection in Oil and Gas: What Each Method Finds

Controlled-release testing shows what methane leak detection actually finds. Why the surveyor matters as much as the camera, and what a survey cannot see.

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Default Emission Factors: Subpart W Bars Them for Pneumatics

Default emission factors are Subpart W's last-ranked method for natural gas pneumatic devices, and are barred outright at sites with a supply-line flow meter.

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Colorado Regulation 7: What It Requires and What It Costs

Colorado Regulation 7 no longer has a Part D. What Part B requires, which sections are statewide, and how the intensity verification factor is set.

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Division Order: What It Is and How to Check the Decimal

A division order states your decimal interest in a well's revenue. The decimal is net mineral acres over unit acres times royalty rate, and it is checkable.

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Texas Oil Fields: 65,000 Names and Two Drilling Eras

Texas files 65,038 field designations that roll up to 23,923 fields. Most contain no horizontal well at all, and a few hundred hold the shale inventory.

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What Is Subpart W Suspension? State Rules Still Apply

Federal methane reporting faces suspension while Colorado ONGAEIR and New Mexico mandates stay fully enforceable. How multi-state O&G operators should respond.

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Inflation Reduction Act: What Is Left for Methane in 2026

The IRA methane charge was not repealed. Its rule was disapproved and the charge moved to 2034. What still binds oil and gas operators, provision by provision.