October 4, 2024 — The Interior Department is launching the cleanup of eight orphaned oil and gas pipelines about 12 miles off Texas’ Matagorda Island.
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) announced Thursday the signing of a five-year contract with Chet Morrison Contractors for work funded in part by by a $4.7 billion program for orphaned-well cleanups created by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Kathryn Kovacs, Interior’s deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, issued a statement calling the law “crucial” to removing orphaned infrastructure on the outer continental shelf.