Lucas, Bice introduce legislation addressing abandoned oil wells, stimulating research

Recently, Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) and Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (OK-05) introduced the Abandoned Well Remediation Research and Development Act, which would establish an abandoned wells research, development, and demonstration program at the Department of Energy.

Oklahoma currently has 1,277 listed abandoned oil and gas wells across the state. In 2018, the United States Environmental Prot…