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SB 1137 was set to ban new oil drilling or major retrofits to existing wells within 3,200 feet of ... But if they’re gonna do it recklessly it is going to cost them a lot of money,” he said.

In June, Fast Company wrote about Schuyler Wright, whose ranch in Pecos County, about 100 miles east of Toyah and in the Permian Basin, has been the scene of multiple oil well resurrections.

And because those horizontal wells can extend 10,000 feet or more, Seng said, they reach a lot more oil than vertical wells. Another big change is data.

“A lot of the oil fields in the United States have small towns in and amongst them,” Ostrom says. By some estimates, there are between 2 million and 3 million abandoned oil wells in the U.S.

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