October 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Bid alerts are now instant
Shawn Azdam
Founder
Engineering
Geocoding 40,000 well records without losing our minds
County plats, section-township-range grids, and hand-typed latitudes all disagree. Here is the pipeline that reconciles them into one map.
Data & Research
What 1,200 plugging bids tell us about orphan-well costs
Depth explains less than half the variance in plugging cost. Access, fluids, and paperwork explain the rest.
Policy & Markets
IIJA orphan-well funding, one year later
Formula grants are flowing, but obligation rates vary wildly by state. Here is where the money actually stands.
Orphan Wells
Anatomy of an orphan well, from discovery to plugging
A field guide to how undocumented wells surface, get ranked, and finally get plugged — and where the process stalls.
Engineering
Making the bid queue fast with virtualized lists
Five thousand rows brought the queue to its knees. Rendering only the visible ones took us from 4fps back to 60.
Announcements
Contractor profiles launch with verified history
Every contractor in the queue now has a public profile with verified awards, bonding capacity, and service areas.
Data & Research
Mapping methane risk to rank wells for review
Proximity, gas readings, and well age combine into a single review priority. Here is the model and its limits.
Policy & Markets
State bonding minimums are rising. Here is the math.
Blanket bonds that covered a hundred wells for the price of one plug are going away. What adequate bonding actually costs.
Orphan Wells
Winter plugging season in the field data
Cold months plug fewer wells per crew-week but surface more discoveries. The seasonal pattern, quantified.
Engineering
From PDF to structured bid in one pipeline
County bid packets arrive as scanned PDFs with no two alike. Our extraction pipeline turns them into structured packages.
Announcements
Terrabillion is live, and every plugging package is in one queue
We spent a year ingesting county bid packets and state orphan-well lists. Today the queue opens to everyone.