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Los Alamos National Lab uses drones and AI to locate abandoned oil and gas wells

By Jordan Honeycutt,

19 hours ago

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory are utilizing drones and artificial intelligence to track down and cap oil and gas wells abandoned by companies. They hope to stop those wells from polluting the air and contaminating groundwater.

“Los Alamos National Lab and our consortium with other national labs has capabilities to find these, which uses a combination of drones to fly above them and then try to detect them with different type of sensors. And then when we get this data, we use artificial intelligence to try to find where the wells are,” said Hari Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The national lab said the oil and gas wells can be tricky to locate because many are covered with dirt and foliage.

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