DOI orphan-well grants to Alaska: initial, formula phase 1, phase 2 (Petroleum News Aug 2024)
- Record
p09-AK-rec-01- State
- AK
- Category
- funding · grant_award_summary
- Status
- collected
- Period
- current
- Quality
- Unreviewed
- Review state
- Pending review
- Native ID
AK-DOI-ORPHAN-GRANTS-2024
Fields
- award date
- Aug 25, 2024
- formula grant
- $28.3 million
- initial grant
- $25 million
- phase1 available
- $25 million
- phase2 award
- $3.3 million
- program manager
- The orphan well cleanup program in Alaska is being managed by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
- source spokesperson
- Bryan McLellan, senior petroleum engineer for AOGCC
Evidence
- initial grant:
$25 million
https://www.petroleumnews.com/story/2024/08/25/news/doi-offers-more-orphaned-well-funding/40272.html · article body, McLellan paragraph (verbatim in evidence/p09-AK-extracts.txt) · sourcep09-AK-src-04· visitp09-AK-visit-06 - formula grant:
$28.3 million
https://www.petroleumnews.com/story/2024/08/25/news/doi-offers-more-orphaned-well-funding/40272.html · article body, formula-grant sentence (verbatim in evidence/p09-AK-extracts.txt) · sourcep09-AK-src-04· visitp09-AK-visit-06 - phase1 available:
$25 million
https://www.petroleumnews.com/story/2024/08/25/news/doi-offers-more-orphaned-well-funding/40272.html · article body, phase-1 clause (verbatim in evidence/p09-AK-extracts.txt) · sourcep09-AK-src-04· visitp09-AK-visit-06 - phase2 award:
$3.3 million
https://www.petroleumnews.com/story/2024/08/25/news/doi-offers-more-orphaned-well-funding/40272.html · article body, phase-2 sentence (verbatim in evidence/p09-AK-extracts.txt) · sourcep09-AK-src-04· visitp09-AK-visit-06 - program manager:
The orphan well cleanup program in Alaska is being managed by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
https://www.petroleumnews.com/story/2024/08/25/news/doi-offers-more-orphaned-well-funding/40272.html · article body, program-management sentence (verbatim in evidence/p09-AK-extracts.txt) · sourcep09-AK-src-04· visitp09-AK-visit-06 - source spokesperson:
Bryan McLellan, senior petroleum engineer for AOGCC
https://www.petroleumnews.com/story/2024/08/25/news/doi-offers-more-orphaned-well-funding/40272.html · article body, attribution clause (verbatim in evidence/p09-AK-extracts.txt) · sourcep09-AK-src-04· visitp09-AK-visit-06 - award date:
Aug 25, 2024
https://www.petroleumnews.com/story/2024/08/25/news/doi-offers-more-orphaned-well-funding/40272.html · article byline (verbatim in evidence/p09-AK-extracts.txt) · sourcep09-AK-src-04· visitp09-AK-visit-06
Provenance
Collected 2026-10-05 by agent p09-AK. Still missing: phase2 award date, grant numbers, performance grants.