Phoenix Wells

From Liability to Asset

Oklahoma has more than 20,000 documented orphan wells, and the Corporation Commission is still investigating roughly 18,000 more. Each one is an environmental liability costing the state money it doesn’t have.

Phoenix Wells converts these liabilities into clean energy sites: built locally, by the same skilled workforce that drilled the wells in the first place, and designed so the communities that host the work share in the value it creates.

The Record

HB 3173, the Well Repurposing Act, passed the Oklahoma House 85–6 with bipartisan co-authors, then died at the Senate’s session deadline. The coalition is proven; the framework isn’t going away.

A federal resource-characterization application is submitted and pending (DOE DE-FOA-0003472, Topic 6).

How This Connects

Phoenix Wells is the ground layer of Humanity and AI’s work: energy infrastructure that strengthens the grid instead of straining it, and one answer to the question of who benefits as energy demand grows.

Phoenix Wells is a project of Humanity and AI LLC, based in Oklahoma City.