Louisiana officials are not keeping track of hundreds of abandoned oil and gas structures off the state’s coast, according to a recent report from a labor organization.
True Transition, which advocates for energy workers in the energy transition, partnered with environmental nonprofit SkyTruth to estimate the number of oil and gas structures in state waters. With data from 2017 to 2024, groups identified 1,113 structures — and estimated that 879 of them are serving “no economic or productive use.”
Megan Biven, the founder of True Transition, said the group discovered last year that no state or federal agencies track those numbers.
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“We called every state agency,” Biven said. “No one had an active count.”
