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Alberta overhauls system to clean up old oil and gas wells, with 90,000

July 30, 2020
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The Alberta government is revamping how it regulates oil and gas producers in an attempt to start addressing the province’s swelling inventory of inactive oil and gas wells.

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The biggest change will be introducing a requirement for companies to spend a minimum amount of money every year toward cleanup of oil wells, pipelines and facilities.

Alberta has more than 90,000 inactive wells, in addition to 73,000 abandoned wells that have been dismantled but not fully reclaimed. The estimated cost of cleanup varies greatly but is considered to be in the tens of billions of dollars.

The government will formally announce the new program on Thursday. Many experts are welcoming the changes, even though it may not result in companies having to spend more money on reclamation work.

Energy Minister Sonya Savage is hopeful the new annual targets will help to address the problem.

“It’s like paying down a mortgage. You’ve got a target and every year you’re chipping away at it, paying it down and eventually you’ll have that mortgage paid off. That’s what the inventory reduction and the requirement for annual spending targets will do,” she said in an interview.

“Over time, we will get that cleaned up.”

‘This is a pretty bold step after 60, 80 years of oil and gas development in the province, where some of these sites have been accumulating for decades, to finally address it,’ says Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage, about the new rules to regulate oil and gas well cleanup. (Julie Debeljak/CBC)

Savage said companies may be required to spend at least four per cent of the estimated cost of their inactive wells, which would increase over time.

Still, the exact percentage is still to be determined and it’s not clear whether there will be any enforcement, which will be the responsibility of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER).

“We’ll work with industry to make sure they can reach those targets. You can’t be setting targets too high that they can’t meet. That’s not helpful for anyone,” she said.

“The AER will work on what kind of feasible penalties, if any, there would be. But we’re telling them these [spending targets] need to be mandatory.”

The provincial government will give the regulator extra powers to gauge the financial health of companies, with the goal of intervening earlier when producers begin to struggle, which raises the risk that their cleanup liabilities may not be addressed.

Alberta has about 160,000 abandoned and inactive wells throughout the province. (CBC)

That’s a good approach, according to Tristan Goodman, president of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada, which represents small- and medium-sized oil and gas producers. He worked at the AER several years ago.

“As a former regulator, what you’re looking for there is to understand the financial position of those companies and how to make sure that the companies know the regulator is paying greater attention to them.” 

Goodman said the finer details of the changes will be important, but in general, he supports the overhaul of the program. 

At this point, he said,…



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