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Organization Type: State Archives & Libraries
Organization URL:http://digitalprairie.ok.gov

Collection: Energy Resources Board, Oklahoma (OERB)

In 1993, leaders representing Oklahoma's oil producers and royalty owners, working with the Oklahoma State Legislature, formed the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board. Oklahoma's natural gas producers joined soon after. Our mission -- to use the strength of Oklahoma’s greatest industry to improve the lives of all Oklahomans through education and restoration. At the heart of our mission is the OERB's ongoing commitment to clean up Oklahoma's orphaned and abandoned well sites -- sites left to ruin by those who have long since passed or disappeared. Funded through voluntary contributions paid by producers and royalty owners, the OERB's environmental restorations cost nothing to landowners or taxpayers. We've restored more than 10,000 orphaned and abandoned well sites, employing Oklahoma contractors along the way.