Millions of abandoned and low production, marginal oil and gas wells exist in the U.S., Canada, and many oil-and-gas-producing countries around the world. These wells contribute to methane emissions, air quality degradation, surface and groundwater contamination, and ecosystem impacts. Many recent state, regional, and federal policy proposals have included plugging abandoned oil and gas wells as a way of creating jobs and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and reducing other environmental impacts. To effectively characterize, mitigate, and manage existing and legacy oil and gas wells, multi-disciplinary approaches including policy sciences are needed. Therefore, we invite a broad range of studies including field studies (e.g., flux measurements, gas and water geochemical sampling, aerial surveys, mobile surveys, and geophysics), laboratory analyses, modeling, risk assessments, economic analysis, database analyses including historical, commercial, and public databases and documents, and policy analysis.

• A - Atmospheric Sciences
• H - Hydrology

• CGU: Canadian Geophysical Union -
• ESA: Ecological Society of America -
• EGU: European Geosciences Union -
• GSA: Geological Society of America -