MAPACHE ENERGY Midland, Texas

We plug wells, and turn the methane we stop into carbon credits.

Mapache manages plug and abandonment programs for operators in the Permian Basin, and develops the methane abatement as carbon projects under the BCarbon protocol. Twenty years in Permian cementing sits behind both.

For operators For carbon buyers

Areas of focus

For operators

Plugging program management

We price every well in your inactive inventory, package the work into lots that draw real competition, qualify and contract the vendors, and manage the job through to the W-3. You set up one party. Contractors work under our agreement and invoice you directly.

For carbon buyers

Methane abatement projects

A well that stops producing and never gets plugged vents methane for decades. Plugging it eliminates every future tonne. We measure each wellhead before and after, carry the result through to a project under BCarbon’s protocol, and hold the well-by-well record behind it. Permanent, sited in West Texas, and tied to a public state filing anyone can check.

Where we fit

A contractor is accountable for the well in front of them. We are accountable for the programme around it. Two different jobs, and a programme needs both.

The well
  • The plugging procedure and the regulatory filing
  • Well control, fishing, tubular recovery
  • Cement design, placement and testing
  • Supervision on the rig, and the crew that runs it

The contractor’s work, and the hard part of it.

The programme
  • What the whole inventory costs, before anyone bids
  • The package split into lots by area and rig class
  • Contractors matched to work their equipment actually fits
  • One agreement, however many contractors the work takes
  • Methane measured at each wellhead before and after plugging
  • Schedule, cost and performance tracked across every lot

Ours.

We do not own rigs, and we do not compete with the companies that do. Our job is to bring them well-defined work in the counties they cover, at the rig class they run, and to keep the schedule straight so a crew is not waiting on a decision.

Every well in a programme is measured at the wellhead before it is plugged and again after, so the reduction is a recorded figure rather than an estimate. That number stands on its own — an operator can report it whether or not a credit is ever issued — and it is the same measurement a registry needs if the wells go on to become a carbon project.

Twenty years designing slurries and running cement in the Permian is why we can engage on the technical detail as well as the price — bottom-hole temperature, annular volume, what the tag confirmed.

Our own platform. It tracks every well in the basin from state filings, screens them, and prices the plugging work per well from depth, location and cement volume.

The inactive inventory is not evenly spread. Ector, Andrews and Pecos alone hold more than eleven thousand wells, and two thirds of everything inactive sits between three and twelve thousand feet — the depth band that decides which rig can take the job and what the cement costs.

Inactive Texas wells by depth A depth profile of 34,657 inactive Texas wells. The largest band, 10,663 wells, lies between 8,000 and 12,000 feet. Nearly four in five wells fall between 3,000 and 12,000 feet. Under 3,000 ft 5,651 3,000 – 4,999 8,603 5,000 – 7,999 8,006 8,000 – 11,999 10,663 12,000 ft + 1,102 No depth on record 632 79% of the inventory
Inactive Texas wells by depth. The band between three and twelve thousand feet decides which rig can take the job and how much cement it needs — and four in five wells sit inside it.
34,657 inactive wells in our Texas coverage
970 operators holding them, across 38 counties
11,513 in Ector, Andrews and Pecos alone
98% priced individually, well by well

Talk to us

If you hold inactive wells, or you buy carbon, there is a conversation here.

Mickie Hamilton · President and CEO
[email protected]
432-901-4877