Terrabillion Blog https://terrabillion.com/blog Product updates, engineering deep dives, and orphan-well research from Terrabillion. Bid alerts are now instant https://terrabillion.com/blog/instant-bid-alerts https://terrabillion.com/blog/instant-bid-alerts Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Announcements New matching packages now trigger an alert within a minute of hitting the queue, with contractor-fit scoring attached. Geocoding 40,000 well records without losing our minds https://terrabillion.com/blog/geocoding-forty-thousand-wells https://terrabillion.com/blog/geocoding-forty-thousand-wells Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Engineering County plats, section-township-range grids, and hand-typed latitudes all disagree. Here is the pipeline that reconciles them into one map. What 1,200 plugging bids tell us about orphan-well costs https://terrabillion.com/blog/what-plugging-bids-cost https://terrabillion.com/blog/what-plugging-bids-cost Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & Research Depth explains less than half the variance in plugging cost. Access, fluids, and paperwork explain the rest. IIJA orphan-well funding, one year later https://terrabillion.com/blog/iija-orphan-well-funding-year-two https://terrabillion.com/blog/iija-orphan-well-funding-year-two Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Policy & Markets Formula grants are flowing, but obligation rates vary wildly by state. Here is where the money actually stands. Anatomy of an orphan well, from discovery to plugging https://terrabillion.com/blog/anatomy-of-an-orphan-well https://terrabillion.com/blog/anatomy-of-an-orphan-well Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Orphan Wells A field guide to how undocumented wells surface, get ranked, and finally get plugged — and where the process stalls. Making the bid queue fast with virtualized lists https://terrabillion.com/blog/fast-bid-queue-virtualized-lists https://terrabillion.com/blog/fast-bid-queue-virtualized-lists Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Engineering Five thousand rows brought the queue to its knees. Rendering only the visible ones took us from 4fps back to 60. Contractor profiles launch with verified history https://terrabillion.com/blog/contractor-profiles-launch https://terrabillion.com/blog/contractor-profiles-launch Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Announcements Every contractor in the queue now has a public profile with verified awards, bonding capacity, and service areas. Mapping methane risk to rank wells for review https://terrabillion.com/blog/mapping-methane-risk https://terrabillion.com/blog/mapping-methane-risk Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Data & Research Proximity, gas readings, and well age combine into a single review priority. Here is the model and its limits. State bonding minimums are rising. Here is the math. https://terrabillion.com/blog/state-bonding-minimums-math https://terrabillion.com/blog/state-bonding-minimums-math Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Policy & Markets Blanket bonds that covered a hundred wells for the price of one plug are going away. What adequate bonding actually costs. Winter plugging season in the field data https://terrabillion.com/blog/winter-plugging-field-data https://terrabillion.com/blog/winter-plugging-field-data Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Orphan Wells Cold months plug fewer wells per crew-week but surface more discoveries. The seasonal pattern, quantified. From PDF to structured bid in one pipeline https://terrabillion.com/blog/pdf-to-structured-bid https://terrabillion.com/blog/pdf-to-structured-bid Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Engineering County bid packets arrive as scanned PDFs with no two alike. Our extraction pipeline turns them into structured packages. Terrabillion is live, and every plugging package is in one queue https://terrabillion.com/blog/terrabillion-launch https://terrabillion.com/blog/terrabillion-launch Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Announcements We spent a year ingesting county bid packets and state orphan-well lists. Today the queue opens to everyone.