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MT orphan-well progress via MTPR (Oct 2024, secondary)

Record

p09-MT-rec-04

State

MT

Category

outcomes · progress_summary

Status

collected

Period

current

Quality

Unreviewed

Review state

Pending review

Native ID

MT-ORPHAN-PROGRESS-2024

Fields

inventory

counted close to a thousand wells across the state

plugged

plugged about 600 of those

report date

2024-10-23

Evidence

1. inventory: counted close to a thousand wells across the state
   https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2024-10-23/what-happens-to-abandoned-oil-gas-wells-in-montana · article body figures (via search-result extract; fetch truncated at nav) · source p09-MT-src-14 · visit p09-MT-visit-10
2. plugged: plugged about 600 of those
   https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2024-10-23/what-happens-to-abandoned-oil-gas-wells-in-montana · article body figures (via search-result extract; fetch truncated at nav) · source p09-MT-src-14 · visit p09-MT-visit-10
3. report date: 2024-10-23
   https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2024-10-23/what-happens-to-abandoned-oil-gas-wells-in-montana · article URL dateline · source p09-MT-src-14 · visit p09-MT-visit-10

Provenance

Collected 2026-10-05 by agent p09-MT. Still missing: official BOGC corroboration, reclamation counts.