SCH Number 2025080496

Project Info

Title

Permanent Sealing of Orphan Wells in Canoga Park Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration

Description

The Canoga Park Orphan Well Project by the California Department of Conservation Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) State Abandonment Program involves the State of California’s plugging and abandoning (P&A) of six (6) orphan wells in the inactive CalGEM-designated Canoga Park Oil Field (private land, no longer an active oil field), within unincorporated Los Angeles County. A portion of the Project site (where access road improvements would occur) is located within the City of Los Angeles. P&A refers to the permanent closure and sealing of a well by placing cement and other approved materials in the former well. The Project will result in the permanent sealing of the six orphan wells in the Canoga Park Oil Field and removal of associated facilities. The permanent sealing rig and all associated equipment would be staged on the well pad or on the lease roads. A 0.25- to 0.5-acre area is needed to contain all P&A equipment within a pad; based on the overlapping buffer distances, approximately one acre of disturbance is required. Each well would take approximately one week to P&A.

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