Such wells will remain for some time as converting over will be rapid ( if capital is available) but not immediate. There can be huge savings right now from converting commercial vehicles over to natural gas but many companies seem to drag their feet. Wells can be used as a petrochemical feedstock although with oil greatly reduced in price. Even after that, some wells may continue to be available for pumping fluids held within.
They may continue to seek Helium form such wells – until LENR opens the way for commercial production of He ! From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 10:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Quest to Mine Seawater for Lithium Advances Chris Zell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Aren’t there waste fluids from fossil fuel drilling that haven’t been exploited for lithium as yet? I recall that this has been brought up in the past. If we have cold fusion there will not be much drilling for fossil fuels. I think it will be cheaper, safer and more convenient to synthesize hydrocarbons from garbage and other sources, using thermal depolymerization. This is already being done, partly as a way to reduce the waste stream.
