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We carry out scenario analysis and research to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and demand will impact the future of fossil fuel-exposed companies and projects. This analysis helps the investment community better understand the financial implications of tackling climate change
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Closing the Oil Well Transfer Loophole
Asset Retirement Obligation
20 May 2025
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Asset Retirement Obligation
Report
17 December 2025
Asset Retirement Obligations: What Lies Beneath?
Why inconsistent asset retirement obligation disclosures leave investors exposed to hidden risk Oil and gas companies in the UK, Canada...
Asset Retirement Obligation
Report
10 June 2025
Solving the Oil Field Paradox
A solutions framework: solving the orphan well problem requires systemic solutions The “oil field paradox” refers to the growing...
Asset Retirement Obligation
Report
20 May 2025
Closing the Oil Well Transfer Loophole
The Impact of California's Orphan Well Prevention Act on the transfer of oil well cleanup liabilities California’s Assembly Bill No....
Asset Retirement Obligation
Report
06 September 2024
Backfire: Why Colorado’s bonding reform is not working
Carbon Tracker has been following the development of the Energy and Carbon Management Commission’s (ECMC) financial assurance rules...
Asset Retirement Obligation
Report
27 June 2024
Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows
Decommissioning Colorado’s Two Oil Industries In 2018, Colorado became one of the first US states to recognize the insufficient...
Asset Retirement Obligation
Analyst Note
04 April 2024
Little Big Horn: How a bonding proposal can fall short
Nearly 70 years after the last update and more than 10 years after formal recognition of the inadequacy of federal onshore bonding...Popular Reads
Closing the Oil Well Transfer Loophole
We carry out scenario analysis and research to examine and understand how potential changes to supply and...
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After his recent primary wins Donald Trump is assured to be the Republican Party’s nominee for President. Polling shows he...
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False Start: How Colorado’s bonding rules failed to increase coverage
Asset Retirement Obligation Report February 2024In March of 2022, the ECMC announced Colorado’s new financial assurance rules with much fanfare, referring to the Rules as the...
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The key message of this paper is that oil and gas decommissioning obligations amplify the potential harm from—and could be the...
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With approximately 2.1 million abandoned wells across the U.S., there is growing concern about unfunded asset retirement...
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“Having looked to government for bread, on the first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.” Edmund...
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Billion Dollar Orphans: Why millions of oil and gas wells could become...
Oil & Gas Report October 2020There are 2.6 million unplugged onshore wells in the U.S., with another estimated 1.2 million that are undocumented. In It’s...
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Carbon Tracker pioneered work on the oil and gas industry’s “stranded assets”; as investors increasingly ask whether oil...
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Carbon Tracker’s fundamental insight is that the oil and gas industry’s growth plans do not fit in a low carbon world. As...
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