Using AI and Drones to Find Orphaned Wells
Los Alamos National Laboratory, in a consortium with four other National Laboratories, is leading the charge in finding the best practices to find orphaned wells. There are between 300,000 and 1,000,000 orphaned wells in the United States alone. These abandoned wells can leak methane gas into the atmosphere and possibly leak liquid into the ground water. Hari Viswanathan, Environmental Scientist, explains how the team is using drones and AI to find these wells in Oklahoma and the Four Corners Region.
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